Alexandra Wallace, the girl behind last week's racist Youtube tirade against the Asian population at UCLA, has decided to drop out after mounting harassment and ostracism in the fallout from the video. While UCLA itself decided not to discipline her (the video is an exercise, however appalling, in free speech), Wallace has received death threats and has since "decided to stop attending classes." She released this apology in a statement to the campus newspaper: “Especially in the wake of the ongoing disaster in Japan, I would do anything to take back my insensitive words. I could write apology letters all day and night, but I know they wouldn’t erase the video from your memory, nor would they act to reverse my inappropriate action.” (For some entertaining parodies of the video, check out our post from last week.) more ›

Our Douchebag of the Day comes in the form of UCLA student Alexandra Wallace who in her 3-minute video rant complains about the "hordes of Asian people that UCLA accepts into our school every single year.” Wallace describes her frustration at the library saying Asian students just can't stop talking on the phone and disturbing her: "all of a sudden when I'm, like, about to reach an epiphany, over here from somewhere I hear, Ohhhhhhhh! Ching chong ling long ting tong! Ohhhhhhh!" She adds, "I swear, they're going through their whole families just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing." The video has since gone viral and received several million hits, eliciting a quick apology from Wallace who says she has received numerous death threats. For more, check out LAist's reports here and here.
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A few months ago, we informed you of the latest information about the 15th edition of CBS' Survivor: China, to be held...in China (surpise, surprise). In a few short weeks, the show will debut after filming its episodes during July and August. As the stentorian narrator in this early promo for the show says, "For the first time, a major American show goes behind the Great Wall to shoot entirely in China. It's a place... more ›

Yahoo! China recently ran a series of photos of fake brand-name products that they called "rice sprayingly funny piracy" (令人喷饭的盗版). In the spirit of piracy, we downloaded those photos and put them on our own site. We also added some other related images we found during a cursory Flickr search. more ›

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... more ›

This was not a very happy week for the -ist network as one of our own, Phillyist co-editor Star C. Foster, passed away early in the week. Her wit, intelligence, and good nature shone through the site, making Phillyist an immensely fun read. She was loved by many and will be missed by all. more ›

Torontoist has some awesome, cutting edge news: A movie is being made about a gay hockey player - filmmakers even got approval from the NHL and the Toronto Maple Leafs! Also awesome: Toronto's "Do the Sneeze Sleeve Campaign". And most awesome is this dreamy photograph of Toronto's skyline in fog. more ›

Let's look back at a week in which no site in the -ist network adopted anyone from Africa... more ›