CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 18, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1995
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What's News?

• Asian American Studies Center Celebrates 25th Anniversary.
  They came back. Over 700 people, mostly UCLA alumni, gathered at the Downtown Bonaventure September 14 to celebrate the 2th anniversary of the univesity's Asian American Studies Center.
• UCLA's Asian American Studies Center: A Very Special Place
  On behalf of studens, staff, and faculty of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, I extend our appreciation to the literally thousands of individuals, both at the university and in the community, who have helped make our Center a very special place.
• Center Thanks Sponsors and Hundres of Volunteers for September 14 Fund-Raising Dinner
  On behalf of the Asian American Studies Center, Student/Community Projects Coordinator Meg Malpaya Thornton greatefully acknowledged teh following sponsors for tables at the September 14 Dinner: Platinum Sponsor ($10,000): blue Cross of California.
• Celebrating 25 Years of Asian American Studies
  "The Center has achieved extraordinary national and international prominence," commented Nakanishi.
• Public Service - Governor Benjamin Cayetano
  Benjamin J. Cayetano was elected in 1994 as the state of Hawaii's fifth governor and first of Filipino ancestry.
• Civil rights - Asian Pacific American Legal Center
  The Asian pacific American Legal Center (APALC) is the leading organization in Southern California dedicated to providing our growing community with multilingual, culturally sensitive legal services, education, and civil rights support.
• Daily Breeze Newspaper Spotlights Center's Work
  The spotlight was ont he UCLA Asian American Studies Center in a feature story in the Daily Breeze newspaper, which is distributed in Southbay communities such as gardena and Torrance in Los Angeles County.
• Center Names New IAC Postdoctoral and Predoctoral Research Fellows
  Filmmaker John Esaki is serving as the Center's 1995-96 post-doctoral fellow through the Institute of American Cultures (IAC).
• Students Unveil Mural Marking 25 Years of Asian American Studies
  A mural marking 25 years of Asian American Studies was unveiled recently in the third floor hallway of Campbell Hall, home of the Asian American Studies Center.
• Have Asian American students Benefited from Affirmative Action?
  Many Asian Pacific Islander students, particularly those of Ease Asian ancestry, perceive affirmative action as a program that hurts them or as a "black-and-white issue" that does not affect them.
• Darlene rodrigues Hired by Cal State Fullerton
  Darlene Rodrigues is not a novice when it comes to teaching. Even as a second-year M.A. student in our Asian American Studies program last year, Darlene was a teaching assistant for Asian American Studies 100A.
• Why I'm Majoring in Asian American Studies
  Dear Mother and Father: I know that you are very unhapy with my decision to make Asian American Studies my major at UCLA. I remember your reaction when I first told you.
• Domestic violence and Pilipino Americans: A Problem Requiring a Solution
  She is 21 and UCLA student, but to look at her you would guess she was only 14 or 15.
• UCLA Health Research Center on Asians and Pacific Islanders Renewed for Funding
  The UCLA/VA/RAND MEDTEP Center for Asian and Pacific Islanders recently received continuation funding from the Agency for health Care Policy and Research.
• First Internet Guide for Asian American Cybernauts Now Available
  UCLA's Asian American Studies Center and the APNet consortium have published An Internet Guide for Asian American Cybernauts, compiled, annotated and introduced by Wataru Edihara.
• Asian American Studies Center Is Now On-line!
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center is now on-line with a World Wide Web Home Page created by Steven Masami Ropp, assistant coordination of our Reading Room.

More News...

• Education - Edward T. Chang
• Arts - Hisaye Yamamoto DeSoto
• Business - Lilly V. Lee
• Media - Bill Sing
• Prof. Yuji Ichioka Honored by Historical Society
• Aratani Family Gives major gifts to Center
• Los Angeles Times Highlights Work of Chancee Martorell
• Seven New M.A. Theses Produced by Center Grads
• Center Launches Educational Campaign on Affirmative Action
• Pacific ties Newsmagazine Begins 18th year of Publication
• College of Letters & Science Provides Counseling for Students Interested in Asian American Studies
• 1996 Research Roundtable to Focus on Asian Pacific Youth
• Hawaii Summer Program to be Held June 27 to August 5, 1996
• Researchers to Undertake Largest Survey of Filipino american Community
• UCLA Launches Study of Mid-life Women from Different Ethnic Communities
• Center Welcomes New Faculty to UCLA
• Roster of Asian Americans in Politics Now Available; Lists 1,200 Officeholders
• Profs Lubben and Ong Named Department Chairs in New School of Public Policy and Social Research
• Maria V. Ventura Hired as Center's Curriculum Assistant
• Two New Amerasia Journal Issues Examine Theory and Community Linkages
• Professor John Horton Publishes New Book about Monterey Park

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