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Crimes against Asian women

Posted in Crime & Law by Elliott Back on April 7th, 2005.

The New York Post carries a disturbing story about a Princeton PhD math candidate named Michael Lohman who spent the greater part of three years sexually harassing Asian women on campus. Although married, he terrorized more 50 Asian women by (among other things) clipping snippets of their hair which he stuffed into his mittens.

For three years, the married grad student quietly terrorized Asian women on campus by clipping snippets of their hair, spraying them with urine and pouring semen or urine in their drinks at university dining halls, cops say.

Lohman also had lingerie and other clothing believed stolen from women around campus, McManimon said. Cops say they can link Lohman to 50 incidents involving Asian women. Police began getting bizarre complaints involving Asian women soon after Lohman, a Ph.D. candidate, arrived at Princeton in the fall of 2002.

Not only is this extremely bizarre, it’s sadly a rash of crimes comitted against a specific minority group. This is yet another reason to work against popular American stereotypes of the “exotic Asian woman,” and stereotype in general. At Cornell I don’t see a lot of race-related incidents, but if it can happen in Princeton, it can happen in your hometown too.

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