CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 14, Number 1, Spring , 1991
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What's News?

• The fight for fair Reapportionment
  When I first heard about the reapportionment project at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, I could not understand why anyone would want to devote an entire research project to this process.
• Redefining CrossCurrents
  On the opening day of the U.S. war against Iraq, I asked many Asian Americans here at UCLA about the particular impact of this war for our communities.
• Don Nakanishi Takes the Helm
  It is with great pleasure that I invite you to participate in and contribute to the activities and programs of the Center.
• U.S. Office of civil Rights Finds Anti-Asian Bias in UCLA's Math Graduate Programs
  Shortly after the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released findings of racial discrimination in the UCLA math Department's graduate admissions, a UCLA statistics professor explained to his class that the descrepancies in Asian American and white admissions rates could be explained by "random drawings."
• Graduate Program Admits largest Entering Class in Its History
  This academic year, our Asian american Studies graduate program admitted the largest ever entering class: thirteen students!
• "Moving the Image" of Asian Pacific Americans
  The emergence of the independent Asian Pacific American community need no longer look to Hollywood and the mass media for its sole portrayals.
• Focus on Families: rockefeller Fellows, 1990-91
  This year the Asian american Studies Center has awarded Rockefeller Humanities fellowships to three individuals who are examining the asian american family from the perspectives of family history, film representation, and filmaking.
• Students Making a Differecnce
  APALDP promotes the development of leadership skills in both high school and college students.
• New Computers in Our Reading Room
  The Asian American Studies Center Reading Room currently must meet the challenge of cataloguing and organizing a continual surge of new information.
• Constancy and Change: Center Curriculum Responds to the 1990s
  This quarter, the Asian American studies Center is offereing the course "Philippine Folklore and Society: Traditionand Change" which presents an overview of Philippine traditions, some of which have remained constant over generations and others which have changed dramatically.
• New Staff at Asian American Studies Center
  Our Asian american Studies Cener welcomes five new staff members who, aside from specific job duties, are helping to make academic life bearable for the numerous undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, facult, and community people who visit our Center daily.

More News...

• Twenty-Four M.A. Theses Completed by Graduate Students
• Burning Cane is coming
• Readin gRoom Features Unique Collections
• Cener Launches Public Policies Project on Reapportionment
• Funding for Research Projects Now Available
• Resources Publications at UCLA relating to the Asian Pacific American Experiences
• Asian American Studies colloquium Series 1990-91

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