AASAnnouncements
week of 09.24.06

Congratulations to freshman liaisons Michael Chao, Jing Cao, Carl Kubler!!!

Important Announcements

Events/Opportunities on Campus

Events off Campus

1. Immigration Rally

Career & Scholarship Info

Important Announcements

AACC Open House

Bone Marrow Drive

Asian American Bone Marrow Drive:
Event Information Yale Drive to recruit volunteers willing to be a marrow donor should a person matching the donor’s tissue type ever
needs a marrow transplant to save their life.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

10am ? 2pm Kline Biology Tower 1^st fl 219 Prospect St.
3pm ? 6 pm Behind the Yale Bookstore Outside, in front of Morse College
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
10am ? 2pm Yale Medical School Harkness Lounge 367 Cedar St New Haven CT

It’s easy to join the NMDP Registry!
You must be between the ages of 18-60, meet the health guidelines, fill out a form, give a cheek cell swab and be willing to donate to any patient in need.
Minority donors urgently needed!
Patients are more likely to match donors of the same racial and ethnic heritage. More donors of all races and ethnicities are needed.
Refreshments available for volunteers.
Organized by the Asian American Student Alliance, the McDougal Center of the Yale Graduate School, Students of Mixed Heritage and Culture, and Students for Organ Donation

Events/Opportunities on Campus

Student Panel on Lebanon and Israel

Student Health Expo

TOKYO CHIGAKUKAI

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Off Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway, New Haven
Workshop: 3:00-4:15 PM
Performance: 7:30 PM, FREE and Open to the Public
(reception following performance)

The Tokyo Chigakukai 2006 East Coast Tour is New England's first introduction to the music of the Kikusuji style of jiuta-sokyoku, classical Japanese music for voice, koto, kokyu and shamisen. Repertoire for the tour will span music from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries and highlight the intimate connection of jiuta-sokyoku and the development of Japanese literature. In addition to formal concerts, the Tokyo Chigakukai will present a workshop at 3:00 pm for students in music and East Asian studies.

Concert highlights include a performance of koto kumiuta, the first systematized collection of music for voice and koto created by Yatsuhashi Kengyo beginning in 1648, and a focus on the kokyu, a three-stringed bowed instrument rarely heard today. American performances of classical Japanese music often concentrate on contemporary pieces, so the tour provides a rare opportunity to hear the early repertoire, and to follow the genre's development over four centuries. Jiuta-sokyoku has often been inspired by Japanese literature, beginning with the Manyoshu, Heian period waka anthologies and The Tale of Genji, and the music performed will highlight this intimate relationship.

The Tokyo Chigakukai 2006 East Coast Tour is made possible by a grant from the Todo Music Association. Support also provided by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University.

For more information about performance or workshop contact jeffrey.levick@yale.edu or visit The Council on East Asian Studies

The Yale Engineering
Sheffield Fellowship Presentation and Lecture

“Toward an Era of Symbiotic Life-style”

Hajime Sasaki
Chairman of the Board
NEC Corporation

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
4:00 p.m.
Davies Auditorium

Reception to follow at the
Beinecke Library Mezzanine

Women, Gender and Yale Poster Session
November 7-9, Beinecke Plaza
In November we plan to host a “Women and Yale” poster session to present scholarly work done by, on, or for women as a visual display combining a brief narrative with pictures, tables, and other presentation formats. We are planning the poster session to be displayed outdoors around the Beinecke Plaza November 7-9 and then indoors at various libraries around campus. Prior to the poster session, all posters will be cataloged as jpeg images for a website slide show and laminated so they can be archived with the library. We will need your assistance spreading the word and participating, so that we can capture the excellent, cutting edge, and brilliant research by women scholars at Yale. DEADLINE for posters OCTOBER 30. Posters can be deposited in campus drop boxes (locations listed at www.yale.edu/wff), sent via email to wff@yale.edu, or delivered to our offices at 305 Crown Street.

Women's Center Art Fund

The Women's Center Art Fund is funded by the Women's Center endowment and encourages undergraduates to create art that has a gendered and/or feminist slant. Each Women's Center Art Fund project lasts for one semester, with a reception to present the work when completed. The art remains on display in the Women's Center.

Deadline: Monday, October 2

Get an application by emailing elizabeth.stvictor@yale.edu

Apply for the Art Fund!

Help TAS Plan Nightmarket

This year, TAS is planning its first ever Nightmarket event on October 6th. A Taiwanese Nightmarket is a lot of fun, filled with a variety of foods, games, and shopping. We're trying to recreate a little bit of that atmosphere here on campus, and the event details are:

Friday 10/6. 8PM-10PM.

JE Dining Hall

Because this is the first time we've tried to plan an event like this, TAS needs the help of a few volunteers with serving food and running game-booths. The commitment is minimal and you will get to EAT FOR FREE =P

Anyway, if you're interested in helping out, please shoot me an email and I can fill you in on more details as the time comes closer. Frank.yang@yale.edu

The Yale Chapter of
the National Organization for Men's Outreach for Rape Education
invites you to an

Open House
with

Laura Rubinstein
Health Educator
Coordinator of Student Health Programs at Yale

Laura recently joined Student Health at Yale as a Health Educator after being at Dartmouth. Laura is looking forward to meeting with students, and giving her perspective on issues of interest to residence groups at the Women's Center. The format of the meeting will be an informal question-and-answer session, lasting approximately 45 minutes. (Refreshments will be provided!) Topics Laura would be glad to answer questions about include:

• student involvement in health education

• how to help friends and connect them to resources

• sex education - contraception and communication

• eating concerns - how to identify a problem

• alcohol - how to identify a problem

• how men can contribute to the Women's Center

7:00pm
Wednesday, September 27
Yale Women's Center
198 Elm Street (Next to Durfee's)

Refreshments will be provided.

For more information please contact grayson.walker@yale.edu

All Yale students are welcome!

Yale Political Union Freshman Debate

This week, the YPU will hold it's annual Freshman Prize Debate on Tuesday, September 26, at 7:30 PM in LC 102. Any Freshman can speak and compete for First Prize.

First Prize: $100, a lifetime membership in the Yale Political Union, and a fully-subsidized spot at a YPU Mory's lunch or dinner of your choosing (Dinners are scheduled this semester with Justice Scalia and William F. Buckley Jr, among others)

Second Prize: $50 and a lifetime membership in the Yale Political Union.

Third Prize: $25 and a four-year membership in the Yale Political Union.

The resolution we will debate is Resolved: Illegal Immigration is Essential to the American Way. (Speeches should be kept to 4 minutes). Interested freshmen should email Floor Leader of the Left Rachel Homer (Rachel.Homer@yale.edu) to speak in the Affirmative. Email Floor Leader of the Right Will Wilson (William.Wilson@yale.edu) to speak in the Negative.

The YPU will hold a special YPU Officer Hour on Monday (today), September 25, from 8 to 9 PM in the Pierson Common Room, to give freshmen a chance to prepare for the prize debate. Come by, eat cookies, chat with YPU senior officers and other members, and pick their minds about the freshman prize debate, the topic, what you plan to speak on, and anything else on your mind.

New York Times sports columnist William C. Rhoden is visiting campus as
a Poynter Fellow on Tuesday, September 26, to discuss his new book "40
Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black
Athlete."

Dessert and discussion: 8 pm, Calhoun Master's House

On "40 Million Dollar Slaves," the Washington Post writes:

"Presenting a history that is neither an "inspirational reel" nor an
indictment of today's black athletes, Rhoden offers a "complicated tale
of continuous struggle, a narrative of victory and defeat, advance and
retreat, the story of an inspiring rise, an unnecessary fall, and
uncertain future." He rightly challenges the conventional American
notion of sports as a model of integration and meritocracy, where
talent and athleticism trump bigotry. For example, Rhoden examines the
distinctive styles that Willie Mays and R.C. Owens brought to baseball
and basketball, respectively. He reveals how fans and media alike
demonized them for violating the values of the game and for merely
"having attitude." Persuasively, he finds echoes of their harsh
treatment in the condemnation of flashy modern competitors such as the
University of Miami football team of the '90s. Through each historic
step, forward and back, Rhoden argues that black athletes, like blacks
in general, have always been "largely feared and despised," relegated
to the "periphery of true power" despite their talents and
contributions to sporting life in America.

Forty Million Dollar Slaves is a beautifully written, complex and rich
narrative. Rhoden offers a wonderful balance between the
often-forgotten histories of great black athletes, such as bicyclist
Major Taylor, Negro League entrepreneur Rube Foster and college
football great Sam Cunningham, and nuanced social commentaries on the
commercial exploitation of blackness, white control of the sporting
world, and the devastating effects of integration on the Negro Leagues
and the sports teams at historically black colleges and universities."
-- washingtonpost.com

Co-sponsored by African-American Studies, Calhoun College, Labyrinth
Books, the Afro-American Cultural Center, and the Poynter
Fellowship.

Queer Political Action Committee
Calling all progressive queers and women!
Go door-to-door in the dorms for Ned Lamont!

A special queers' and women's night!
Wednesday September 27th
8-10pm
In Ned Lamont, the voters of Connecticut have a chance to elect a progressive senator who will stand strong in his support of women's reproductive rights and of marriage equality. Joe Lieberman, on the other hand, does not support equal marriage, nor does he think women should be able to have access to emergency contraception at hospitals statewide. He also voted to end debate on the Alito nomination, a vote that will hurt our communities position before the Supreme Court for years to come.
The choice for Connecticut women and queers is clear: we must send Ned Lamont to the US Senate on November 7!
You can help us do that right here at Yale by going door-to-door in the dorms to register voters and talk about Ned Lamont. This Wednesday from 8-10pm is a special queers' & women's night - so let's show our community's strength and support for Ned Lamont!!
Don't worry if you've never done this before - everyone will get trained before they get sent out, and you'll be paired with somebody who's done it before.
Email me if you're planning on coming - hugh.baran@yale.edu. And if you can't make it this week, there are plenty of other Wednesday nights between now and November 7th!

Queer Peers
The Queer Peers is a peer counseling group specializing in the needs of LGBTQQ identified people. They are trained in coordination with Mental Health at University Health Services. The Queer Peers staff the Queer Resource Center, offering a venue for queer and questioning students to talk about issues regarding gender and sexuality, life at Yale, and coming out. They also provide a great place to hang out and soak in a little queer culture.

If you are interested in becoming a Queer Peer this semester, email Benjamin.gonzalez@yale.edu or Donte at Rodriquez.donald@yale.edu for an application.

Are any of you interested in writing, editing, or doing layout for Five
Magazine? Five is a progressive, call-to-action publication that speaks
urgently of the need for activism today. Its twofold mission is to inform
students of the pressing issues currently facing social justice, human rights
and service groups on campus and to act as a resource for inspiring others to
get involved in their causes. If you are interested at all, feel free to
e-mail me at brandon.h.johnson@yale.edu. Thanks a lot!

Brandon Johnson
Editor-in-Chief, Five Magazine

AMITA DUTT

Famed Kathak dancer

And

Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan, classical musicians

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 @ 5:00PM

MacMillan Ctr., Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Sponsored by the South Asian Society and the South Asian Studies Council, supported by the Rustgi Family Fund

Cambodia Khmer Rouge Trials: Ownership of Justice

Motoo Noguchi

Professor, UNAFEI, International Judge of the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and 2006-07 Schell Center Fellow

Thursday, September 28
6:15 p.m.
Law School, Room 128

Compare Ethics and Morality in Hong Kong and the U.S.
Visit Hong Kong during Spring Break & Be Immersed in its Culture
Make Lifelong Friends

The Yale-China Association presents:
The annual Yale University--New Asia College Undergraduate Exchange (YUNA)!

Why join: If you are a Yale sophomore or junior who would like to get an insider’s view of Hong Kong and participate in a cross-cultural comparison of the U.S. and Hong Kong, you should apply for the YUNA exchange. The program brings together eight Yale students and eight students from New Asia College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, who visit each other’s campus and work together throughout the academic year to explore issues related to a common social, political or cultural theme. Many participants of the program during its 13-year span have formed lasting friendship.

This year’s participants will explore the issue of ethics and morality. The Yale team will visit Hong Kong during Spring Break. The New Asia students will visit New Haven during their Chinese New Year vacation in February.

Who’s eligible: Yale sophomores and juniors.

How to apply: Download an application at http://www.yalechina.org/programs/yuna.html (Please note: You must use Internet Explorer to access this site.)

Applications are due MONDAY, OCT. 2 at NOON.

Information session:
THURSDAY, SEPT. 28 at 5:30 p.m. at the Yale-China Association (442 Temple St.)

InSight

*Activism*Awareness*Social Justice*

Come to InSight’s first dinner meeting of the year!

Thursday 6 pm in the Branford Fellow Lounge

Contact michelle.wong@yale.edu for more information

Events off Campus

The Immigrant Movement and the Anti-War Movement Unite

Justice for Immigrants

Money for Jobs and Education, Not for War and Occupation

Congress still has not come up with any legislation that would legalize millions of undocumented immigrants. At the Chicago meeting of the National Alliance for Immigrant Rights it was decided to fight for a law with these ten ideas: Legalization for every immigrant. Stop HR4437 or the similar version in the Senate. No criminalization of immigrants. No walls and no militarization of the border. No guest worker program. No employer sanctions. No deportations. No use of local authorities as ICE agents. Yes to expedited visas for family reunification. Yes to workers’ rights for immigrants.

We say “No way!” Not another dime for Bush’s wars. Spend the billions at home to help the victims of Katrina, to fight global warming, to raise the wages, to improve schools and to guarantee everyone health care. Stop the attacks on Arabs and Muslims.

March and Rally

Sunday October 1 @ 2 pm

Meet at Phelps Gate @ 12:30 PM

(Reserve transportation: adriana.garcia@yale.edu)

Rally at South Green Park (where Park St meets Maple Ave and Main St).

For more information call (909) 573-3833, (203) 934-2761, (203) 606-3484, (860) 231-0082

Sponsored by: Regional Coalition for Immigrant Rights (CT) and Middle East Crisis Committee Endorsed by: American Friends Service Committee, ANSWER-CT, Coalition for Immigrants of Hartford, Colombia Action/CT, Connecticut Peace Coalition/New Haven, Connecticut United for Peace, International Socialist Organization/New Haven, Latinos Contra la Guerra, La Sexta Internacional, Palestinian American Congress, People of Faith CT, Socialist Action, and Unidad Latina en Acci�n.

http://www.socialjustice-ct.org

Career & Scholarship Info

Applying to Medical School as an
Asian-American:

Medical School Interview Workshop and Mock Interviews

9:00pm Wed., Sept. 27
at the Asian American Cultural Center

� Workshop focusing on issues facing Asian-American applicants to med school.
� Opportunities to sign up for mock interviews with Yale medical students.

If you can not make the workshop but are still interested in mock interviewing, please email yvonne.chung@yale.edu or dennis.hsieh@yale.edu

Job Opening: Program Associate for the Trust for Public Land

We are very excited to announce a position that is available with The Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come.

The position is the Program Associate, responsible for day to day management for the Conservation and Recreation Campaign: Common Cents for the Commonwealth.

I kindly ask that you post the job description (text below, and, also at http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=20867&folder_id=176 ) in your career center and pass the word around.

Program Associate Position Summary:

The Program Associate assists the directors of the Conservation and Recreation Campaign: Common Cents for the Commonwealth in the day to day management of the campaign. This is a temporary, unbenefitted position to be converted to full time benefitted in January 2007. The position is based in Boston, MA.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Campaign Management, 50%

Create and maintain tracking and reporting systems for press, candidates, legislators, grassroots outreach, research and communications

Prepare, review and transmit invoices, letters, and reports.
Distribute materials and publications upon request.
Update content for the Campaign website and monitor blog
Assist with press, marketing and event planning.
Support and manage Leadership Council and volunteer contacts

Support, 25%

Organize and maintain files (both hardcopy and electronic) of activities and materials.
Draft schedule requests and maintain database of program contacts and clients.
Prepare press briefings.
Revise and maintain up to date program packets and materials.
Office administration, including ordering supplies, mailings, travel arrangements, meeting and event planning, making appointments, equipment maintenance, and office communications.

Program, 25%

Research and prepare reports on related topics as needed including but not limited to press, relevant academic research, national and state park systems, local and national tourism, Massachusetts' park finance, and Massachusetts parks and other topics as needed.
Prepare tables, charts, graphics and PowerPoint slides for program presentations to both internal and external audiences.
Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's degree and or 2 year degree with demonstrated experience required.
Skilled in the use of the Internet and Microsoft office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Writing and phone skills.
Well organized and strong attention to detail.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and as part of a team.
Takes initiative and works independently.
Knowledge of, or experience in, land conservation, urban environmental issues or parks a plus.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send a cover letter and resume to John.Young@tpl.org with the subject line "Program Associate".

We Are Actively Recruiting A Diverse Workforce
Jeremy Morgan
Program Associate - Conservation Finance
The Trust for Public Land
jeremy.morgan@tpl.org
617-367-9885 fax

The Trust for Public Land - Conserving land for people since 1972. Because everyone needs a place to play outdoors. www.tpl.org

Amy Rossborough Fellowship
Application Deadline: Friday, October 13
The Amy Rossborough Fellowship is designed to give Yale undergraduates the opportunity to undertake service projects affecting women in the greater New Haven community. Each Fellowship lasts for the academic year, although it may be extended to a full year at the discretion of the Directors of the Fellowship. The Amy Rossborough Fellowship is made possible through the generosity of the Rossborough family, in honor of their daughter Amy (1959-1979). Amy was a political activist and a fighter for women's rights and social justice when she died in the summer before her senior year at Yale. Contact Tina Wu (tianying.wu@yale.edu), the fellowship coordinator, for questions and applications.

wh-intern.html.

Applications should be submitted to Karen Race, Deputy Director and Intern Coordinator, White House Personnel, at intern_application@whitehouse.gov on or before the following deadlines:

October 13, 2006 for SPRING 2007 � (January 9 to May 11, 2007)
March 6, 2007 for SUMMER 2007 � (May 22 to August 24, 2007)

If you have questions you may contact Karen Race at (202) 456-5979 or intern_application@whitehouse.gov.