CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 15, Number 3, Fall/Winter 1992
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What's News?

• Asian Pacific American ublic policy Institute To Be Set Up at UCLA
  The first national Asian Pacific American public policy research institute will soon be established at UCLA
• The Need for Filipino American Studies
  When I apply for admission to UCLA over two years ago from Seattle, I was excited to learn about the burgeoning Filipino community in the area.
• 1992 asian pacific Frosh Admission at 37%
  Asian pacific Islander students comprise 37 percent of the 1992 entering freshman class, according to information released from teh UCLA Office of Academic Planning & Budget.
• Professor Valerie Matsumoto Wins Tenure in History Department
  Professor Valerie Matsumoto has become the first Asian American woman to attain tenure, or permanent faculty apointment, in the UCLA History Department.
• Making Our City "A Better Place To Live"
  Professor Paul Ong can be reached by apoitment only. but if you're really determined, you might be able to catch him in his office at 9 a.m. sharp- that is, if he is in town!
• Center Welcome Six New Faculty
  The Asian American studies Center welcomes serveral new faculty members who were recruited trough joint searches with departments in the College of Letters and Sciences
• Korean American women "Caught between the Sheets"
  In the post-riot muggy August Sunday heat of Los Angeles, my friend, Korean american filmmaker Kyung-Ja lee and myself, a chinese American writer, entered the cool whiteness of the Los Angeles Photography Cener to catch the last day of Susette Min's "Caught between the Sheets," a multimedia project which brought together 22 visual and video Korean American women artists in this first-ever collaboration (july 14-August 16, 1992.)
• Center Welcomes Seven Researchers, Writers and Artists
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center's "American Generations Program" announces the selection of its fellows and research stipend recipiens for the 1992-93 year under the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellows program.
• Nine First-year Students Bring New Research Interests to Our Center
  Nine first-year students in our Asian american Studies graduate program bring research interests in history, inter-ethnic relations, women's studies, and film and television to our Center.
• UCLA Asian Pacific Students Rally; Win Tagalog Classes!
  In a time of budget cutbaks and program retrenchment at UCLA, Asian Pacific American students have won an impressive victory approval of a new, three-year Tagalog language program, with instructio to begin Winter quarter.
• Wendy Yan heads UCLA Asian Pacific Coalition for 1992-93 Academic Term
  Wendy yan is serving as director for the 1992-93 academic year of the UCLA Asian Pacific Coalition.
• Three Student Leaders from our Center Elected to Student government Posts
  Thre Asian pacific Islander students- with strong backgrounds of work with the Asian American Studies Center - were elcted to undergraduate student government posts for hte 1992-93 academic year.
• East West Players donates Archives to UCLA - 27 Years of Asian American Theatre
  East West Players, an Asian Aemrican theatre group based in Los Angeles, was founded in 1965 by eight inspired Asian American actors that included Rae Creevy, James Hong, June Kim, Guy Lee, Pat Li, Let Lock, Beulah Quo, and Mako Yashima.
• Works by Japanese American Aritists from WWII Internment Camps at Wight Gallery
  "The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945," at UCLA's Wight Art Gallery from Oct. 13 to Dec. 6 is the first major exhibition of more than one hundred works of art created by more than 30 Japanese American artists.
• Japanese American Rememberance Fund Launched at UCLA
  UCLA has launched a $500,000 campaign to establish an endowment to support research, archival acquisition, and educational programs on issues that face the Japanese in the United States
• Jean Pang Yip: Our "hidden Ambassador"
  Many may not realized that the elegant, smallboned woman who heads the distritubtion and sales of Resource Development and Publications brings an international background and perspective to her work. In 1977, just one year after she brought her three children, Sidney, Arthur, and Amelia to the United States from Hong Khong, Jean began workign fo rhte Asian American Studies Center. After 15 years, she retired offically this October but will be continuing with us on a part-time basis.

More News...

• Major Policy Book to Study Population Projections
• New Health Research and Training Center Funded
• Center Welcomes Largest First-year Class into M.A. Program
• Prof. Kar undertakes healthy Survey of Indo-Americans
• Major Policy Book on Population Projections
• Center Assists in Efforts to Build a "New L.A.
• Center sponsors Two High School Student for Summer Work
• IAC Fellowships Avaialble
• Congressman Mineta Supports Student Campaign
• Asian Pacific Students at UCLA & USC Plan New Journal
• Pacific Ties Begins 16th Year of Publication
• "Ohana" Spritit Marks Asian American studies Hawaii Summer Program
• korean American Students Form New Education and Service Organization at UCLA: KAUSES
• Cinema caucus Formed; Seeks Members
• vietnamese Student Conerence to be held at UCLA in Spring 1993
• Recent publications from the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

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