CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 14, Number 3-4, Fall/Winter 1991
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What's News?

• Asian Frosh Admissions at 39% What Does It Mean?
  It happens every year. The ritual of applying to UCLA affects Asian Pacific American families across the nation.
• The Demand for hindi, Tagalog, Thai, and vietnamese Language and Culture Classes at UCLA
  I remember when I was four-and-a half years old, staying home under the the protective but stern eyes of my gradmother, while the rest of my family journeyed off to work and school.
• What Can You Do with an M.A. in Asian American Studies?
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center administers the only Masters degree program in the world in Asian American Studies. But what exactly can a person do with an M.A. in the field?
• Reading Room's Newsletter Collection A Valuable Resource for Researchers
  How many of you spend many precious waking hours reading newspapers and magazines?
• Marji Lee Receives "Outstanding Chinese American Woman Award"
  Reading Room coordinator Marji Lee is the 1991 recipient of the "Outstanding Chinese American Woman Award" from the Organization of Chinese American Women, Los Angeles Chapter.
• UCLA Search for 175 Students Uprooted from Campus 50 years Ago for Wartime Internment
  Erynn tsuboi, a UCLA undergraduate, is doing a lot of work. She is attempting to locate 175 UCLA students from fifty years ago who were pulled out of campus and sent to concentration campus due to the World Warr II internment of Japanese americans.
• Asian Frosh Admissions Hit 39%
  Politically, the use of the category "Asians" has served to obscure het difference between many communities.
• Asian Pacific Americans in L.A: A Demographic Profile
  From now until the end of the century, Asian Pacific americans in Los angeles will face a challenge unparalleled in our history.
• Center Welcomes Rockefeller Fellows
  The Asian american Studies Center extends a welcome to the 1991-92 recipients of hte Rockefeller American generations Program fellowship grants.
• Center Management Staff Juddles Multiple Responsibilities
  "when anything in the Center breaks down, everyone comes to see us." That's the way Center office manager Cathy Cstor defines the monumental role of staff members in Center Management.
• Center to Publish book about Filipino Immigrant Labor Leader Philip Vera Cruz
  The UCLA Labor Center and Asian American Studies Center will joint publish a book about Filipino immigrant labor leader Philip Vera Cruz.
• Indian Student Union Joins UCLA's Asian Pacific Coalition
  The Pesident of the Indian Student Union, A meer Mody, has big plans for the group this school year. Committees will be busy with projects like the charity drive for the tragedy in Bangladesh, cultural evens featuring Indin artists, and campus politic like the push for representation of Indian culture and Literature in the curriculum, in addition to the usual social events for its members.
• New S/CP Staff Sees Exciting Year Ahead
  "I'm really glad to be here at the Asian American Studies Center,' says Meg Thornton, the newly-hired Coordinator of Student/Community Projects. "I've always wanted to work here, because so many good people have come from this Center."
• A Place Called "Home"
  Many people have called S/CP (Student/Community Projects) their "home".It's a place where you feel free to rearrange the furniture and put up posters or leaflets of your liking.

More News...

• The Staff
• Center Forming Two New Research Groups
• Center to Offer first-Ever Class on Asian Pacific Amercan Public Health
• Center Co-sponsors Conference on Women from Asia & Middle East
• Lesbian and Gay Surveillance Depository Created by UCI Librarian
• UCLA Programs Marking 50th Anniversary of Wartime Internment
• Korea times Spotlights Cener Staff member Julie Noh
• Also Available from Public Policy Project
• Celebrating the Publication of Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts
• IAC Fellowships Available
• Post Doctoral Scholars Study Asian American Admissions and Filipino American History
• UCLA Students Continue to demand Asian Pacific Language Classes
• The Past: A Thing to Remeber, a Place to Go
• Research Fellowship on women and Gender
• New Edition of Asian and Pacific Islander Community Directory Now Available

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