Amy Chua

Amy Chua, ‘Tiger Mother,’ shows her true stripes

“Much of the intense reaction to my book has been based on a misunderstanding,” Amy Chua, author of the controversial book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” told a full house in Graham Chapel. “I never approved that headline, and I never saw it until I opened up the Sunday headline and saw it for the first time. And, in fact, I don’t agree with [it].

| Managing Editor

Amy Chua, The Pre-Med Track and Arranged Marriage (The Secret to Happiness)

We are lucky to be at a university with individual colleges, a thick course catalogue, and a whole fair of activity choices. I am coming to realize, however, that this array of options can only be advantageous in a certain state of mind- one which I have yet to attain.

| Staff Columnist

SU Treasury approves funding for Legend, Vergara and Chua

Student Union Treasury voted to allocate $105,569 to bring John Legend, Sofia Vergara and Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School and author of “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, to campus in a meeting flooded by about 100 students Tuesday night.

| Student Life Editors

With or without a “Tiger Mother,” we turned out just fine

Amid rampant conjecture about the failings of the American education system, and following the publication of Chinese testing results that thoroughly kicked our collective American rear ends, Yale professor Amy Chua published a controversial article about what is now termed “extreme parenting.”

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