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What is Big Straw?

Big Straw is a student-run Asian interest publication that provides students with an outlet for artistic expression, cultural identity, and thought. Big Straw started in Spring 2006 as part of a 70-101 Interpretation and Argument class on Asian American Literature. The professor at the time, Dr. John Eperjesi, was finishing his doctorate at CMU and moving to Korea. He assigned the students a final project: to create an Asian interest magazine that could be published and distributed to the school community, even after he left. The students would work on it after class and met with the professor over bubble tea, and the first issue was released at the end of the semester. We were founded with the goal and mission to cultivate and spread culture, creativity, and ideas.