CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 16, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1993
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What's News?

• Race Relations in L.A.: Attitudes Twoard Asian Americans
  Although most Southern California residents view Asian Americans favorably, a new poll on interethnic relations released by Los Angeles Times indicates ambivalent feelings and persistent stereotypes.
• Why I Got Arrested for Chicana/o Studies
  Standing with their fists aimed at the sky and shoutng out words of encouragement, a huge crowd of supporters greeted us as we stepped out of the UCLA Faculty Center on May 11, 1993.
• Will UCLA Respond to the Needs of a Changing L.A.?
  Demonstrating students, hunger strikes and arrests all make good press. But events at UCLA and UC Irvine last spring were not fueled by a few militant minorities letting off steam.
• Images of Asian Aemricans Change Slowly - If at All
  Asa Japanese - American growin gup on the Eastside of Los Angeles, Don Nakanishi dreaded going to school on December 7.
• We Are All Ingredients in a New American Melting Pot
  They say this country is amelting pot. Have you ever tasted the dish? I have. I found it in my parents' little donut shop in Pasadena, California.
• A Time for healing in Los Angeles
  More than a year has passed since the Los Angeles civil unrest. The scars on the city remain. Yet, there are those who can reflect back on teh unheaval and regard themselves as among the few fortunate people. My parents are among those individuals.
• Asian American History Mural Unveiled at UCLA
  With the help of fellow students this summer, second-year graduate student Darryl Mar completed a stunning mural on Asian American history.
• Students Applaud Efforts to Create South and Southeast Asian Studies Minor
  It's a long-awaited trimph in he making - asian Pacific languages and Cultures Committee will develop a minor or specialization in south and southeast Asian Studies (classes relating to Pilipino, thai, Indian, and Vietnamese cultures) hopefully in the next year.
• Asian American Dialogue on Humanities & the Arts at UCLA in April 1994
  The Rockefeller foundation Humanities Division has provided a major grant to our Center to sponsor a humanities and ars symposium on Asian Americans at UCLA on paril 29-31, 1994.
• Aumni Hold Event for japanese American Remembrance Fund
  "The Grand Reunion" was the title of an alumni event held October 2 in Ackerman Grand Ballroom to benefit the UCLA Japanese Aemrican Remembrance Fund.

More News...

• Ford Foundation funds Public Policy Project Examining Asian Americans and Economy
• Chancellor Young Promisses "Special Consideration" for Ethnic Studies Centers
• Kariann Yokota Wins $16,400 Journalism Research Fellowship
• Six New M.A. Theses compelted
• dISorient Explores Postcolonial Asian American Identity
• Took Took thongthiraj Heads Asian Pacific Coalition for 1993-94
• Asian Pacific Students Comprise 40.6% of Incoming Class
• asian Pacific Alumni Present Sam Law Leadership Awards to Five UCLA Students
• Students survey needs of Low-Income communities
• Dr. Kumar Patel Appointed vice Chancellor for Research
• Professor Valerie matsumoto Named Center's new Associate Director
• Amerasia Journal Names New Book Review Editors
• Six Health Projects funded
• Asian american studies B.A. Proposal Nears Final approval
• Center to Publish book of Poetry by Al Robles
• UCLA Alumni Minoru tonai, class of '55
• Eric wat Hired for Student/Community Projects
• Fred & Dorothy cordova Stress Importance of Flipino American History
• Haunani-Kay Trask to Visit UCLA on November 10
• Campus Event on WWII Exploitation of Pilipinas
• Amerasia journal Explores Multiethnic Conflict and Cooperation in L.A.
• Center Faculty and Staff Publish Five New books

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