Note: If you or your organization has announcements that you would like to be included in this weekly email, please send them ahead of time (i.e. at least one Sunday before the event) to altaf@yale.edu so that the announcement may be sent out in a timely fashion.

Table of Contents

A. Important Announcements

Join AASA for RELAY for LIFE

Click on the link to register. $10.00 Registration Fee.

http://www.acsevents.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=125093&lis=1&kntae125093=C933BD9350A041609A26FB501B5A985A&team=123542

This is a great cause and a great way to meet a ton of people from other Asian-American groups!

Contact hyon.kye@yale.edu or christine.tsang@yale.edu if you'd like to submit to
the Asian American Art Exhibit!

Freshmen:
Apply to be an URBAN FELLOW

The Urban Fellows work with New Haven non-profits and city agencies to address the challenges of urban living (i.e. economic development, neighborhood strengthening, family empowerment and housing). Fellows work 6-8 hours per week in a placement of their choice. Students eligible for federal work-study receive $12/hr compensation and other fellows receive a stipend. While applicants may already have an idea of where they want to work, they can expect help finding a placement once they are accepted.

Fellows are required to attend an hour-long meeting on alternate Thursdays in which they discuss various urban issues in New Haven, frequently with a guest speaker.

Fellows work at All Our Kin, Junta for Progressive Action, New Haven Housing Authority, Neighborhood Housing Services, the Mayor's Office, Christian Community Action, Interfaith Registry, CT Voices for Children, Mercado Global, the Olin Center, the US Attorney's Office, Fair Haven Health Center, and many others.

Fellows may remain in the program until they graduate. Thank you for your interest!

Name:_______________________ Email:____________________
Year:__________ (If you are not Class of 2009, we are currently accepting applications. If you still want to apply, you may send us an application, but understand that we are giving absolute priority to current freshmen).

Please answer the following three questions, limiting yourself to 300 words for each question.

1. Why would you like to be an urban fellow?

2. What kind of placement are you interested in? What skills do you have that
you think would be valuable to a New Haven non-profit or city agency?

3. Please describe your previous community and/or public service work.

Please answer the following two questions, which are deliberately vague. Again
please limit yourself to 300 words for each.

4. What does it mean to live in a city?

5. What does it mean to attend a privileged institution like Yale in the heart
of an underprivileged community like New Haven?

Please attach with your application a short resume or list of any public or
community service experience and other relevant work experience.

Please email this application (as a document) to ted.fertik@yale.edu and
sandy.placido@yale.edu. Some applicants will be invited to an interview.

Urgent Appeal for Action:

Information about a covert concentration camp operating in Sujiatun district of northeastern China was leaked to the public two weeks ago. The death camp is built underground from a former aerial defense facility and connected to the Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital. According to several witnesses who stepped forward, as many as 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners were held at this death camp for the purpose of live organ harvesting. Only 2,000 are estimated to be still alive. Unfortunately, organ trafficking is a lucrative business. While it's widely known that the Chinese government harvests organs from executed prisoners every year, the Sujiatun death camp is quite another matter.

Online petition for the Sujiatun death camp is at http://www.fofg.org/act/act_petition.php?pid=4
U.S. State Department testimony in Congress on organ harvesting from executed prisoners in China: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/rm/2001/3792.htm
News story about Sujiatun camp: http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-3-17/39420.html
The text of the news story and a flyer are also attached for your reference. Please feel free to distribute freely.

Dear members,

Have you ever thought that America's public education system could be and should be a whole lot better? I mean, according to 2003 NAEP results, two out of every three American student cannot read at grade level proficiency and our 15 years finished 24th out of 29 countries in math and problem solving.

For those of you who I have not had the opportunity to meet, my name is Thomas Nakanishi. I graduated from Yale in May 2005 and have been working with two classmates of mine - Aaron Tang and Ethan Hutt '05 - who are co-directing Our Education. Our Education is mobilizing high school and college students who believe that it's time for students to stand up and make a difference and make education a national priority. We recently launched our "A Million Voices, One Right" national youth petition for an American right to high quality public education, and I'm asking you to please check out the website and sign the petition. It will only take a minute for you to lend your name and voice to this campaign that is trying to send a powerful message to our country's leaders: make our education a national priority.

Thank you for your time and please visit http://www.OurEd.org/

Sincerely,

Thomas Nakanishi

p.s. The goal of the petition is to collect a million signatures from youth ages 13-24, and then to deliver them to our nation’s leaders in Washington DC. So please, forward this message to your friends and then visit http://www.OurEd.org to watch the petition counter go up!

VOLUNTEER TO IMPROVE LITERACY IN AFRICA!!

Participate in a campus-wide book drive to collect used textbooks as a fundraiser to purchase books for African school children. Minimal time commitment will be needed toward the end of the semester, and you will be working with the organizations Better World Books and Books for Africa. If you want to help, holla at stephanie.park@yale.edu and charles.loi@yale.edu.

B. Events on Campus

2. Sophomore Coffee Break!

Featuring a fashion show in association with Y-Couture
and many more exciting performances!

(Tickets will be sold outside Commons)

Dr. H. Kim Bottomly
Deputy Provost for Science/Technology and Faculty Development
invites you to
a roundtable discussion
Issues and Strategies for Action:
Engaging the Faculty Diversity Initiative at Yale

March 29, 2006
5:30 to 7:30 pm
Rosenfeld Hall
109 Grove Street, Enter off Temple Street

How do we change from the concept that
“diversity is important to academic excellence”
to “diversity is academic excellence”?

Sponsored by
Coalition for Diversity at Yale
Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity
Women Faculty Forum

Refreshments will be served

RSVP by March 24
coalition.diversity@yale.edu

Pat Cabral 432-0763

3rd Annual Yale Conference on Diversity (March 31-April 1, 2006)
"Working Towards a New vision of the 21st Century University: Promoting Diversity and Excellence in Research, Teaching and Learning Within the Academy"
Keynote Speaker: John Hope Franklin
Emeritus Professor of History Duke University, Author, Former Chair of President Clinton's Initiative on Race, Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Go to http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/diversity/news1.html for registration and other details. Registration for the conference is free to the Yale community. Please Register Early as seats will be limited.

Friday, March 31, 4:00pm, Bouchet Conference on Diversity Welcome Plenary
"The Future of the Academy: Addressing Faculty Diversity Recruitment and Retention Concerns of the 21st Century University"
Speakers: Yale PhD Alumni- Jonathan Holloway, Yale Prof History and African American Studies; Melinda Pettigrew, Yale Asst Professor Epidemiology & Public Health; Danielle Drayton, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lisette Acevedo, Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: Room 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street
Sponsored by: Yale Graduate School Office for Diversity

Saturday, April 1-2, 2006
Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education
Location: Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street
For further info: http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/diversity/news1.html

March 29, 4:00 PM. Calhoun Master’s House.

Master’s Tea

“Animated in America: Apu, Gandhi, and Asian American Masculinity”

SHILPA DAVE, Brandeis University

Co-sponsored by the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration program, and the Asian American Cultural Center.

March 29. Lecture 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Film Screening 6:30 PM. YCIAS Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

“Our Times/Those Times: Bollywood and Its Pasts” South Asia Lecture and Film Series

Lecture: “Of Love and Hate: Sectarian Itineraries”

Screening: “Khahkee,” Raj Kumar Santoshi 2004 OR “Zakhm,” Mahesh Bhatt 1999.

RAVI S. VASUDEVAN, Sarai and Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

**Please see attachment for complete description**

Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council

For more info, contact Barbara.papacoda@yale.edu.

11.

Physicians for Human Rights Conference

Beyond These Walls: Promoting Health and
Human Rights of Youth in the Justice System

SATURDAY, April 8, 2006, 11 am - 4pm
Registration begins at 10 am

Yale University School of Law
Sterling Law Building, Room 127
127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

Physicians for Human Rights presents a conference on the health and human rights of youth involved in the justice system. All health professionals, child advocates, and students of medicine, nursing, social work, public policy, law, and criminal justice are encouraged to attend.

Please join us for a discussion of the history, complexities, and challenges of the juvenile justice system. Adolescent brain development, disproportionate minority contact, over-incarceration of youth, youth mental health needs, community-based services, restorative justice, and the treatment of youth as adults in the criminal justice system will be addressed.

Meet experts, advocates, and activists working towards positive health and justice outcomes for youth. Find out what you can do to ensure the rights of youth in the justice system are upheld and develop an understanding of health and human rights.

Questions? Contact Tasmin Din at tdin@phrusa.org or call 617-301-4200.

Keynote Speakers
�David Fassler, MD, Clinical Associate
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vermont
�State Representative Toni E. Walker, Deputy Majority Leader,
Connecticut General Assembly (invited)
�Youth Rights Media (invited)

Panelists
�Jeff Butts, PhD, Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago
�Steven Berkowitz, MD, National Center for Children Exposed to Violence, Yale Child Study Center
�Ann-Marie DeGraffenreidt, JD, Juvenile Justice Project, Center for Children’s Advocacy, Inc.

Workshops by:
Center for Children's Advocacy, Inc.
CT Center for Effective Practice
CT Juvenile Justice Alliance
CT Voices for Children
Court Support Services (invited)
Dispute Settlement Center
National Center for Children Exposed to Violence
Office of the Chief Public Defender
Urban Institute (invited)
Yale Child Study Center

Registration
Registration includes lunch, conference materials, and a one year membership to Physicians for Human Rights! More information and registration at www.phrusa.org/students/hjy_newhaven

$10 if you register before or on Monday, March 20^th
$15 if you register after Monday, March 20^th

This event is being co-sponsored by:
The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale School of Law
Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance
Campaign 4 Youth Justice

12.

Fourth Annual Northeast Climate Conference

Friday to Sunday, April 7-9, 2006
Register TODAY

The 4th Annual Northeast Climate Conference will be held at Yale University from Friday to Sunday, April 7-9, 2006. Hundreds of student leaders and young professionals from across the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada will leave with the knowledge, skills, and connections to be a part of growing youth climate and renewable energy movement. Register and learn more www.climatecampaign.org The Northeast Climate Conference is hosted by the Yale Climate Campaign, the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, and the Climate Campaign, with support from Sierra Student Coalition, Energy Action, campus groups, community groups, and major regional and national networks. See you in April!

13.

AASA +Freshmen Liaison are presenting

SMOOVIE NIGHT!

Featuring Wedding Crashers and Smoothies! YUM!

When: Tuesday, April 18

Time: 10 PM- 1 AM

Where: AACC

C. Events off Campus

06 FOR YOUTH BY YOUTH CALL FOR ENTRIES
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL 21

Calling all Asian American youth filmmakers between the ages of 15-19! Do you want to use media as a tool for social and political change? Do you have a story to tell and share?

The 29th Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) is seeking submissions from youth filmmakers for our annual For Youth By Youth (FYBY) program. The winning film gets to win our first-ever One To Watch Award, with a package of attractive prizes. The FYBY program showcases works for and by Asian and Asian American youth. Entry is free and open to any youth filmmaker of Asian descent between the ages of 15 and 19. Entry deadline is April 21 (postmarked).

For complete rules and entry form, please visit http://www.asiancinevision.org/festival.html Questions?? P 212.989.1422 or email info@asiancinevision.org

South Asia Language Resource Center Travel Grant

SALRC has a limited number of travel grants available to advanced graduate students and language lecturers and instructors in the South Asian languages whose proposals are accepted for the 2006 Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While the SALRC encourages the creation of panels, we will also support some individual papers.

The conference will be held October 20-22, 2006, at the Madison Concourse Hotel. Online registration forms and proposal submission forms for the 2006 conference will be available at end of January 2006. Please refer to the following website for conference and paper submission information:

http://wiscweb3.wisc.edu/southasiaconference/

Requests to SALRC for support should be accompanied by
� the proposal abstract that you submitted for the conference
� the conference’s acceptance letter
� your proposed budget

The final date for conference support requests is August 1, 2006.

Film:
South Asia Human Rights Film Festival
Co-sponsor Breakthrough and Syracuse University

Dates: Time:	April 6th - April 8th TBA
Location:	New York Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue, New York
Cost:	$5 students w/ID; $7 members/NGO; $10 nonmembers
Phone:	212-517-ASIA
Web:	http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/film06southasia.html

Discover the best that well-known South Asian directors and independent filmmakers have to offer on the compelling issue of human rights. For the fourth year, this immensely popular, three-day film festival features dynamic, full-length films and documentaries on issues of poverty, gender inequality, conflict, HIV/AIDS and sexuality, among others. After the films, hear from human rights activists, policy experts and film directors on these complex topics. Presented by Asia Society with Breakthrough and Syracuse University.

For a complete list of films and film details, please click on the link above.

D. Scholarship, Fellowship, & Internship Information

Applications for Directed Independent Language Study (DILS) are currently being accepted for language study in the 2006 fall semester.

DILS responds to requests by individuals or small groups (no more than 3) to learn a language for a valid academic reason, providing the opportunity for Yale students to study languages that are not offered through traditional classroom instruction at Yale. The program is open to undergraduate, graduate and professional students. Only those applications will be approved for which adequate materials, Language Partners, and testing can be arranged.

The deadline for applications is Monday May 1.

For additional information about DILS interested students should consult the DILS web site at www.cls.yale.edu/dils or send inquiries to dils@yale.edu. The application form can be downloaded from the DILS site,
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Maria Kosinski
Director, Independent Language Study Programs
Yale Center for Language study
Director, Summer Language Institute
Yale Summer Session
New Haven, CT 06520
203.432-2502

2006 CAPAL Scholarships * DEADLINE EXTENDED *

Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership
P.O. Box 65073
Washington, DC 20035-5073
(877) 892-5427
www.capal.org
info@capal.org

***** Please note that the CAPAL Scholarship application deadline has
been extended to April 1, 2006. *****

On behalf of the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership
(CAPAL), I am excited to announce that CAPAL will award three (3)
scholarships to outstanding Asian Pacific American (APA) students
committed to public service and community action.
Awarded annually since 1992, CAPAL's scholarships have enabled
promising students with leadership potential to explore public service
and learn how to influence public policy that affects our communities.
CAPAL Scholars are awarded $2,000 scholarships to support their
successful completion of an internship in Washington, DC, as well as
their development of a Community Action Plan.
We would appreciate your assistance with informing undergraduate and
graduate students of this opportunity to receive financial assistance
to complete an internship in our nation's capital during the summer of
2006. Please retain this information in your files, as this is an
annual program.
Application and scholarship requirements are attached. For more
details or to download the application, please visit our website at
http://www.capal.org or email questions to scholarships@ capal.org.
All applications must be received by Saturday, April 1, 2006.
Thank you for your efforts and assistance.
Sincerely,

Candace J. Chin
Chair, CAPAL Scholarship Committee
Applicants committed to the breadth and diversity of the Asian Pacific
American community, including but not limited to economic, ethnic,
generational, and regional diversity, are especially encouraged to
apply.
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CAPAL | Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership
P.O. Box 65073 | Washington, DC 20035
1.877.892.5427 | www.capal.org | info@capal.org

Summer positions working w/ NYC high school youth!

Please distribute widely.

Chinatown Youth Initiatives (CYI) is currently in search of candidates to fill the following two unpaid
positions:

1) COORDINATOR (open to CYI Summer Program Alumni/ae ONLY)

2) FACILITATOR (open to anyone with some college experience, or current
H.S. juniors)

Please download one or both of the attached MS Word files for more information.

The mission of Chinatown Youth Initiatives (CYI, http://www.cyinyc.org) is to empower New York City yout with the knowledge and skills necessary to address the needs of Chinatown, Asian Americans, and other underrepresented communities. By providing a safe and supportive environment, CYI is ayouth-run organization that works to build a legacy of leaders who strengthen awareness of community issues through project initiatives. The Summer Program of CYI consists of a series of weekly workshops, in which high school youth will engage in discussions and interactive exercises. These workshops, typically run by college students, will facilitate students' development of identity and leadership, as well as their awareness of issues going on within the community.

All applications must be received by Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 11:59, via email at apply@cyinyc.org

All qualified individuals, regardles of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc., are encouraged to apply.

Any questions?
Call Christina at (646) 361-9580
or Jen at (516) 509-0799
or email apply@cyinyc.org.

Jennifer J. Chang, Executive Director
em. jennifer@cyinyc.org | ph. 516.509.0799

Chinatown Youth Initiatives | http://www.cyinyc.org
P.O. Box 130329 | New York | NY | 10013

I want to inform all of you about another opportunity to volunteer in
areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Some of you might have done Katrina work
over Spring Break, but those of you who didn't (or want to do so again) LISTEN
UP!!

The trip will be May 10th to May 27th, but you can leave early if necessary.
This is a convenient way to help out before your summer plans begin.

Join other college students from Yale, Williams, Brown, Emory, and American in
an effort to gut, clean up, and rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina

HERO* Info Session
Wednesday, 3/22
10 PM, WLH 112

If you are interested and can't make it to the meeting, please email
molly.zeff@yale.edu.

Do you need a summer job?
Do you want to shape the life of a child?

Join LEAP
�since 1992�
Creating a New Haven for our Children
Leadership, Education, and Athletics in Partnership

Master’s Tea

“Animated in America: Apu, Gandhi, and Asian American Masculinity”

RAVI S. VASUDEVAN, Sarai and Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

Sponsored by the Rustgi Family Fund and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

Part of the “Religion and Politics in South Asia Film Series”

Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council

South Asia Language Resource Center Travel Grant