CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 20, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1997
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What's News?

• End of Diversity at UCLA?
  With the end of affirmative action, the 1997 freshmen class may be the last diverse gropu of incoming students for serveral years to come.
• Center receives $100,000 Grant from California Wellness Foundation to Study Violence among Asian American Youth
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Cnter recently received a $100,000 grant from the California Wellness Foundation to study youth violence among Asian Americans.
• From War-torn Laos to Fresno Farms to UCLA: Shingly Lee Heads Asian Pacific Coalition in 1997-98
  Shingly Le could have gone to college in the Fresno area where she grew up. After all, her four older brothers all attended California State University, Fresno.
• Smithsonian Exhibit on Wartime Internment and redress Movement Coming to UCLA Oct. 30 to Dec. 22
  The Asian American Studies Center is collaborating with the UCLA Powel College library in organizing a series of public educational programs that will be held with the only Los Angles showing of a national Smithsonian Travelign Exhibits, "A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the United State Constitution."
• Today's Student Assistants at Our Center Are Tomorrow's Community Leaders
  They answer the phones, type up envelopes, photocopy reports and letters, and serve as receptionists greeting visitors to the The Asian American Studies Center.
• Amerasia Journal Special Issue Explores Perspectives and Identities of Asian Descent Multiracial Americans
  "No Passing Zone: the rtistic and Discursive Voices of Asian-Descent Multiracials" is the title of the thoughtprovoking special issue of Amerasia Journal exploring hte experiences of Asian descent mutiracials.
• Revisiting Walnut Grove: The Culture of My Past and My Future
  This July, I told my parents I wanted to go to the annual Walnut Grove buddhist Bazaar in northern California. "We've never gone before, why do you want to go now?" my father asked.
• Two More Asian American Professors Granted Tenure at UCLA in 1997
  Two more professors who are affiliated with the Center were promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure at the end of Spring quarter 1997.
• IAC Grans Support Research Projecs in Asian American Studies
  The institute of American Cultures (IAC) announced the following grants and draduate fellowships for 1997-98 to support research projects in the fild of sian American Studies.
• Center Welcomes Two New Staff Members
  The Asian American Studies Center welcomes two new staff members: Thao Lam and Sefa Aina.
• Darryl Mar Hired as Center's Publications Distribution Coordinator
  Darryl Mar, a recent graduate of the M.A. Program is Asian American Studies, has been hired as the new distribution coodinator for Center publication.
• Center Unveils New Asian American CD-ROM
  "The Asian-American Journaey" is the title of a new CD_ROM developed by Primary Source Media and the Asian American Studies Center. The project is part of Primary Source's "American Journey" series.
• UCLA Law Professor Jerry Kang CoAuthors Comprehensive Report on Asian Americans and Affirmative Action
  Professor Jerry Kang of the UCLA Law School joined with three other Asian American law professors to aproduce a comprehensive report analyzing the impact of afffirmative action on Asian Pacific Americans.
• Center's Web Site Has a New Look!
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center has a new web page design created by new webmaster Gene Moy, a graduate student in our master's program.

More News...

• So. California Asian Pacific Communty Directory Now Available
• New Report Highlights Realities and Myths of Asian Pacific American Students
• Historic Conference on Japanese American Redress Movement Held at UCLA Sept. 11-13
• Amerasia Journal Special Issue Explores Perspectives and Identitties of Asian Descent Multiracial Americans
• Two Pioneering Books Republished by Center
• Immigration Book Nominated for Award
• Pacific Bell/Pacific Telesis Providing Funding for 1997-1998 Asian Pacific American Political Almanac
• Center Announces New Undergraduate Minor in Asian American Studies
• New Joint Masters Degree Programs Proposed
• Judy Soohoo Wins Playwright Award
• Center Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow Sandhya Rajendra Shukla
• Prof. Nancy Herada Recieves Major VA Reearch Grant
• Prof. Kyeyoung Park's new Book Focuses on Status of New Korean Immigrants
• Arleen Devera Wins Fulbrights Grant to Do Philippines Research
• Kathy Kim Named First Director of Development for Four Ethnic Studies Ceners at UCLA
• Dr. Enrique Dela Cruz Elected President of Educational Group

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