CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 18, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1995
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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.
• Yuri Kochiyama Stresses Need for Black-Asian Solidarity
  "Black/Asian Interactions through History" was the title fo a talk by New York activist Yuri Kochiyama at the Museum of Tolerance in los Angeles on Feburary 26, 1995.
• Students Begin to Sign Up for New Major in Asian American Studies
  When graduating senior Robb Paulsen dropped by our Center's main office early Fall Quarter 1994 to declare his major in Asian American Studies, he did not know he was making history.
• The UCLA-Yale Connection: 25 Years Old
  The Asian American Studies Center has enjoyed a number of mutually beneficial relationship with other campus and community groups during its 25th year history, particularly those in California and the West.
• Work of Profs. Sue and Takeuchi Hailed in Landmark U.S. Marines Discrimination Case
  Captain Bruce yamasita, who waged a five-year battle against the Navy to win his officer's commission in the U.S. Marine Reserves, credited the success of his discrimination complaint to a pair of UCLA psychologists.
• Hoshide Family donates Major gift to Center
  Tosh an Doris Hoshide of Rockville, Maryland recently donated over $100,000 in cash and property to establish scholarships for japanese American undergraduate and graduate students at UCLA.
• UCLA Library Acquires Akira Fujita Papers
  On behalf of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Professor Yuji Ichioka gratefully acknowledged receipt of hte personal papers of Kaira Fujita,the preeminent Kibei-Nisei writer.
• New Graduate Students Bring backgrounds in Community Service, Activism, and Scholarship to Our Center's M.A. Program
  Reflecting the diverse ethnic and geographical roots of toda's Asian Pacific American population, the first-year class in our Masters Degree program i Asian American Studies represents a new generation of community and diasporic scholars.
• Bridging The Generation - Recognizing Our True Heroes and Heroines
  It's been a year since Pilipino immigrant labor leader Philip Vera Cruz passed away at 89 in Bakersfield, California.
• Gap - "I Didn't Know the Life of My Father"
  I grew up very poor. through I lived in a fairly good neighborhood in Orange County, my family's income was always a sensitive issue.
• Students Bring Asian American
  Ten years ago, I came to America from Korea. I am now a UCLA student, but my road to UCLA was not easy. I had to learn English as a second language.
• Studies to the Community
  At a glance, Nelson Canales, a former housekeeper at the New Otani hotel in Little Tokyo, is a kind, thought-provoking individual who does a great deal more listening than he does speaking.
• Student Assistants Bring Initiative, Engergy, and Leadership to Center Programs
  Vivan Tseng (left) and Shingly Lee (right) - two UCLA student leaders - are serving as assitants for Center project this year.

More News...

• 'Twas the First year of the Center
• Susie Ling Drafts Historical Timeline of Center
• 25th Anniversary Reunion Event, January 21, 1995
• New Book on Interenthnic Relations in L.A.
• UCLA Student Group Honored for Activism
• Los Angeles Times Profiles Activities of Family of Center Assistant Director Enrique Dela Cruz
• New Classes Address Issues of Public Policy, Affirmative Action, and Environment
• Five Asian American Studies Classes Scheduled for UCLA Summer Session
• Memorial fund and Scholarships Honor Acoomplishments of Philip Vera Cruz
• Asian American Studies Center To Be Honored in Los Angeles during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
• First-year UCLA Law Student Lauren M. Seng Wins Scholarship from Chinese American Lawyers
• Steven Masami Ropp Joins Center Staff as Assiant Coordinator of Reading Room.
• Experiences of "Multiracial Asians" Explored in New Bibiography
• New Video by Robert Nakamura Explores Wartime Internment
• New Book Examines Asian American Sexualities

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