CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 7, Number 1, Summer Quarter, 1983
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What's News?

• Editorial -racism scapegoat Murder Vincent Chin Justice?
  The Vincent Chin case has become one of the leading issues confronting Asian in the U.S. Vincent Chin was murdered because he was mistaken for a Japanese, in Detroit, a city where the cecline of the auto industry is blamed on Japanese imports.
• Free at last
  After ten years behind bars in the California penal system, and after six years of a moment organized aournd the plight of a falsely imprisoned Koreant immigrant, the case of Chol soo Lee has reached its goal: freedom.
• Asian Graduation
  On Saturday, June 18, Kerckhoff Patio came alive with the sound of koto, jazz and the voices of Asian/Pacific students.
• AFSCME: Victory?
  Early this summer, employees of the University of California took a mjor step foward when they overwhelmingly voted for union reporesentation.
• Lucie Cheng on : Affirmative Action
  With the discussion and decision by teh Systemwide University of Calfiornia Administration to remove Pilipino students from the affirmative action category, the Asian American Studies Center became concenred about affirmative action and Asian Americans at UCLA.
• Asian Women United Journal
  Asian Women United (AWU*) is a Nyew York, based women's organization comitteed to the development of Asian sisterhood.

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• Announcements
• Reading room round up
• Asian American Studies Fall '83

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