CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 17, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1994
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What's News?

• Strategizing Cultures
  The Rockefeller foundation and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center will bring together scholars, writers, and artists for "Strategizing Culture: An Asian American Dialogue on the Humanities and Arts" at UCLA April 29 and 30.
• Why Asian Pacific Students Are Impatient and Demanding
  People say that students are impatient. That we desire change. That we desire progressive change. And that we want it now.
• Mike Woo Teaching UCLA Class on Asian American Politics
  While Murphy Hall, Campbell hall and Kerckhoff hall certainly don't add up to city hall, they will have to suffice for former mayoral candidate Mike woo this spring quarter.
• UCLA Student Demand Justice for Asian Immigrant Garment Workers: Picket Beverly Hills Boutique
  "Jessie, Jessie, you're no good - Pay the workers like you should!" This chant has rocked the street of Beverly Hills during the past few months, as UCLA Asian Pacific studens have held demonstrations outside the Jessica McClinktock boutique on Rodeo Drive.
• "The world Doesn't Change for Anyone. We change the world."
  A rally, no matter how successful it is, can produce many ulcerous moments. In fac, the more people you are reaching, the more likely you will encounter people who are resistant to your ideas, people whose words can turn your stomach into boy-scout-proof knots.
• Reflections on Face: An Asian american Women's Magazine
  Cosmo, glamour, Elle. I was about to walk away from the magazine stand when I noticed a glamoroous Asian woman staring out at me from a magazine cover.
• First-Year Graduate Students Bring Diverse Experiences to Our Center
  This year's class of first-year students in our Center's M.A. program comes literally from all over the world: from Camobida, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and the Philippines to New York, Hawaii, Pennsyvania, and Minnesota, to Orange county and Pasadema.
• Researchers and Community Leaders Study Medical Treatments in Asian and Pacific Islander Population
  The UCLA/MEDTEP Outcomes Research Center for Asians and Pacific Islanders was established under a grant from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in August 1992.
• Dr. Pauline Yu Named Dean of Humanities
  Dr. Pauline Yu, a renowned scholar of chinese poetry, has been named Dean of Humanities at UCLA, becoming the highest ranking Asian American woman in the administration.
• Center's Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Dorrine Kondo Researching asian American theater and Fashion
  Joining hte Asian American Studies Center Research staff for 1993-1994 i svisiting scholar Dr. Dorrine kondo. She is a recipient of the Institute of American Cultures (IAC) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Asian American Studies.
• Akira Togawa papers donated to UCLA Library
  The Akira Togawa Papers Reception was held at UCLA on January 16, 1994, at the Department of Special Collections, University Research Library.
• Friends of Reading Room Formed
  The Asian American Studies Center announces the formation of an organization devoted to the support and enhancement of its library: the Friends of the Reading Room.

More News...

• New Edition of Asian & Pacific Islander Community Directory due at End of April
• Research Roundtable on April 15 to Explore Race Relations in LA
• Center Sponsors Internships with Community Groups
• Deadline for angie Kwon Memorial Scholarship April 15
• Center and 3 Community Groups Submit Proposal to Kellogg Foundation
• Hawaii Summer Program Set for une 27 - July 29
• Nikkei Student Union Leader on "Wheel of Fortune"
• Center Gearing Up for 25th Anniversary Activities
• Center Compiles List of More Than 60 Asian Pacific Student Groups on UCLA Campus
• Center Offering More than 20 Classes in Spring Quarter
• Center's Graduate Students, Faculty, and visiting Scholars Honored by IAC
• New Book Published about South Asian Women
• Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Symosium, April 29-30
• Center and LEAP Public Policy Institute to Examine Impact of Asian Pacific Americans on U.S. Economy
• Center Welcomes new Faculty in History, Fiction Writing, Socioly, Public Health, Economics, and Psychiatry
• $250,000 Raised Thus Far for Remembrance Fund
• Reading Room Creates new Research Tool: An electronic Database
• Asian Language conference in Pasadena on April 23
• Amerasia Journal Explores Asian American Postcolonial Identities

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