Azia Kim This is Me

Education

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1. 1. sfgate.com

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   Published on: 5/25/2007   Last Visited: 5/26/2007

   University officials refused to identify the young woman while police investigate her unauthorized stay, but students identified her as Azia Kim, who graduated from Troy High School in Fullerton last year.
   
   Kim was asked to leave the campus on Monday and could not be reached for comment Thursday.
   ...
   Freshman Alissa Haber, 19, whose softball teammate shared a room with Kim for the fall and winter quarters, said she sympathized with the impostor.
   ...
   Chesley declined to comment on whether Kim had applied to Stanford, saying that information is confidential.
   ...
   Kim maintained online sites that described her life at Stanford, including bouts of homesickness and worries over final exams.
   
   In early April, a post Kim apparently made on Xanga.com described how she couldn't wait for summer.
   ...
   "(Kim) convinced her to keep the window open because she didn't have a key, so she could get in through the window. She's obviously very persuasive. ... Actually, my teammate started doing that, too. It's pretty funny."
   
   After several months, Kim persuaded another student in the nearby Okada dorm, a wing of Wilbur Hall, to let her stay there.
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   The situation has rattled some who knew Kim in high school.
   
   A youth pastor at Cornerstone Church in Harbor City (Los Angeles County) said Kim had been a member there for about four years before moving to Stanford.
   ...
   Yun last heard from Kim by e-mail about five or six months ago.
   
   "When I heard from her," he recalled, "she said she was having a great time at Stanford."
   
   E-mail the writers at jcote@sfchronicle.com or jtucker@sfchronicle.com.

2. 2. www.sfgate.com

   www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/25/2007   Last Visited: 5/26/2007

   University officials refused to identify the young woman while police investigate her unauthorized stay, but students identified her as Azia Kim, who graduated from Troy High School in Fullerton last year.
   
   Kim was asked to leave the campus on Monday and could not be reached for comment Thursday.
   ...
   Freshman Alissa Haber, 19, whose softball teammate shared a room with Kim for the fall and winter quarters, said she sympathized with the impostor.
   ...
   Chesley declined to comment on whether Kim had applied to Stanford, saying that information is confidential.
   ...
   Kim maintained online sites that described her life at Stanford, including bouts of homesickness and worries over final exams.
   
   In early April, a post Kim apparently made on Xanga.com described how she couldn't wait for summer.
   ...
   "(Kim) convinced her to keep the window open because she didn't have a key, so she could get in through the window. She's obviously very persuasive. ... Actually, my teammate started doing that, too. It's pretty funny."
   
   After several months, Kim persuaded another student in the nearby Okada dorm, a wing of Wilbur Hall, to let her stay there.
   ...
   The situation has rattled some who knew Kim in high school.
   
   A youth pastor at Cornerstone Church in Harbor City (Los Angeles County) said Kim had been a member there for about four years before moving to Stanford.
   ...
   Yun last heard from Kim by e-mail about five or six months ago.
   
   "When I heard from her," he recalled, "she said she was having a great time at Stanford."
   
   E-mail the writers at jcote@sfchronicle.com or jtucker@sfchronicle.com.

3. 3. www.sfgate.com

   www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/24/2007   Last Visited: 5/24/2007

   University officials refused to identify the young woman while police investigate her unauthorized stay, but students identified her as Azia Kim, who graduated from Troy High School in Fullerton last year.
   
   Kim was asked to leave the campus on Monday and could not be reached for comment Thursday.
   ...
   Freshman Alissa Haber, 19, whose softball teammate shared a room with Kim for the fall and winter quarters, said she sympathized with the impostor.
   ...
   Chesley declined to comment on whether Kim had applied to Stanford, saying that information is confidential.
   ...
   Kim maintained online sites that described her life at Stanford, including bouts of homesickness and worries over final exams.
   
   In early April, a post Kim apparently made on Xanga.com describes how she can't wait for summer.
   ...
   "(Kim) convinced her to keep the window open because she didn't have a key, so she could get in through the window. She's obviously very persuasive. ... Actually, my teammate started doing that too. It's pretty funny."
   
   After several months, Kim convinced another student in the nearby Okada dorm, a wing of Wilbur Hall, to stay there.
   ...
   The situation has rattled some who knew Kim in high school.
   
   A youth pastor at Cornerstone Church in Harbor City said Kim had been a member there for about four years prior to moving to Stanford.
   ...
   Yun last heard from Kim by e-mail about five or six months ago.
   
   "When I heard from her," he recalled, "she said she was having a great time at Stanford."
   
   E-mail the writers at jcote@sfchronicle.com or jtucker@sfchronicle.com.