CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 17, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1994
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What's News?

• Center Planning Series of Activities for 25th Anniversary
  Students, alumni, staff, and faculty of the UCLA Asian American Studies Cener are planning a year-long array of campus and community activities to mark the 25th anniversary of Asian American Studies on campus.
• Remembering Manong Philip
  For our generation of Pilipinos-for the Pilipino youth in American-Manong Philip Vera Cruz representated and will continue to represent the values of social responsibility and political activism.
• Center Launches Ambitious Undergraduate Major in Asian American Studies
  The University of California recently approved the establishment of a bachelor's degree program in Asian American Studies at UCLA.
• Students Propose Mural for Asian American Studies Center in Campbell Hall
  "I am an American." These words appear in a 1993 mural by artist Darryl Mar commemorating the strugle for Asian American Studies at UC Irvine.
• Asian Pacific Students Win Language Classes in Hindi, Thai, and Vietnamese
  Marking another major victory in their campaign for curricular reform, Asian Pacific students at UCLA recently gained language classes in Hindi, Thai and vietnamese for the 1994-95 academic year.
• Center and Four Community Groups Awarded Grant for Telecommunications
  The Asian American Studies Center and four community-based gropus have been awarded a $100,000 grant from the natonal Telecommuncations and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce, to access the informaton superhighway.
• New Associate Director to Focus on Film, Video and Media Projects
  Professor Robert Nakamura of the School of Theater, Film, and Television is Associate Director of the Center.
• Dr. Pauline Agbayani-Siewert: Scholar; Teacher, and Mentor
  "It's the best of both worlds," sys Professor Pauline Agbayani-Siewert about her recent joint appointment as Assitant Professor in Asian American Studies and Scoial Welfare at UCLA.
• Graduate Students, Researchers and Faculty Awarded Grants for Asian American Projects
  The UCLA Institute of American cultures for 1994-95 has awarded grants to graduate students, researchers, and faculty to support research projects.
• Dr. harry Kitano Retires from UCLA
  Dr. harry H. L. Kitano, a pioneering scholar in Japanese American Studies, has retired from his posts in the UCLA School of Social Welfare and Sociology Department.
• 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.
• Amerasia Journal Publishes Alexander Saxton Essay Awards
  The current issue of Amerasia Journal features prize-winning historical essays by Arleen de Vera and Eiichiro Azuma, recipients of the Alexander Saxton Essay Awards for 1992 and 1993 respectively.

More News...

• Memorial Edition of Philip Vera Cruz Oral History Now Available
• Angie Kwon Memorial Scholarships Awarded to Three Undergraduates
• Asian Pacific Coalition Plans Busy Year for 1994-95
• Maria V. Ventura Named Winner of Sam Law Leadership Award
• Publications 1994-95
• Tomo Hattori Named Center's Postdoctoral Fellow for 1994-95
• UCLA Asian American Mental Health Center Receives Renewal Grant
• Professor Kar to Chair Center's Interdepartmental Teaching Program
• Faculty Receive Grants to Promote Multiculturalism
• Public Policy Book on Asian Americans and the Economy Now Available
• Center's Hawaii Summer Program Nominated for Award
• Prof. Wlliam Ouchi is Chief of Staff to Los Angeles Mayor Riordan
• Judge Ernest Hiroshige Wins Alumni Award for Community Service
• Don Nakanishi Named to Redress Eduation Fund
• Friends of Reading Room Now Recruiting Members
• Center Hooks Up to Campus Computer Network and Information Highway
• Don Nakanishi and Tina Nishida Edit New Book on Asian American Education
• Former Staff Member Gann Matsuda Named to Manzanar Commission
• Center Management Welcomes New Staff Member
• A Dozen New Studetns Enter Center's Graduate Program

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