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

SUBMIT

Asian American Film

Festival 2006

Now Accepting Student Film

Submissions

asianfilmfestival@gmail.com

email by

12.15

deadline 01.13.06

A new five year BA-BS/ MPH program has been introduced by the Yale School of Public Health. The program is open to sophomores and for this year's admission process, juniors will also be allowed to apply. Please see the attached brochure for more info. Questions? contact Anne Pistell, Associate Dean, Office of Student Affairs, Yale School of Public Health, anne.pistell@yale.edu

I would like to inform you of an exciting community service opportunity. The Yale Office of New Haven & State Affairs is opening the Dixwell-Yale University Community Learning Center (DYCLC) in early 2006. The facility will include a computer training room with 16 computers and meeting room that seats 40 for education, mentoring, recreation, and cultural programs. The community learning center has an education focus and will primarily target youth of Dixwell. There will be adult and senior programming as well.

The DYCLC is in walking distance from Yale's campus and is located on the corner of Ashmun & Lock Streets behind Swing Space. If you are interested in volunteering at the center and developing a program, please let us know. We're interested in having students and campus organizations conduct programs for youth starting in the third grade up to high school in computer skills, mentoring, literacy tutoring, math tutoring, homework assistance, recreation, creative and visual arts, job and interviewing skills, business/entrepreneurial skills, financial literacy/money management, and cultural awareness. We would also like to have programs for adults and seniors in computer skills, financial literacy, home ownership, literacy tutoring, creative and visual arts, and business/entrepreneurial skills. Any other ideas for programs are greatly welcomed. We would like the programs to run once or twice a week at the center throughout the semester, but monthly or one-time programs would be great as well.

I have attached a flyer about the Dixwell-Yale University Community Learning Center. Please forward this to your organizations. Applications are also going to be available for student interns, so if you are interesting in working 6-12 hours per week at the DYCLC please let us know. Take care.

Sincerely,

Makana Ellis

Coordinator, Dixwell-Yale University Community Learning Center

the asian american students alliance presents...
AASA Live 2005
the annual fall semester aasa basketball tournament

Will CASA, KASAMA, MSA, SAS, TAS, ViSA, JASU, or Jook Songs be able to dethrone KASY, the reigning AASA Live champion?
Come to play, cheer on your favorite team, or just enjoy some classic 5-on-5 basketball!

Wednesday, December 7, 2005
11.00a to 3.00p
Location TBA

submit teams by tuesday, december 6 at 11.59p to shruti.gupta@yale.edu
want to volunteer as a referee? have questions? e-mail shruti.gupta@yale.edu or christopher.lapinig@yale.edu

B. Events on Campus

“one of the hippest acts on the local comedy circuit”
� Boston Globe

A minimum donation of $2 suggested for South Asia Earthquake victims. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to abbas.hussain@yale.edu if you are at Yale College or bilal.lakhani@yale.edu otherwise. Seats are limited so RSVP at your earliest convenience.

About Tissa Hami

Tissa Hami is one of the world’s few female Muslim stand-up comics. Her unique act and fresh perspective on life as an Iranian-American woman leave audiences in shock and awe. From Islamic fundamentalists to white liberals to good old-fashioned racists, no one is safe from Tissa’s sharp wit. Tissa, who performs in Islamic hijab, hopes her comedy will help break down stereotypes about Muslim women and foster understanding between Iranians and Americans.

Tissa grew up in a traditional Iranian family in a predominantly white suburb of Boston. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in international affairs from Ivy League universities. Her parents are thrilled that she is using her expensive education to pursue a career in comedy.

The Yale Law School Chapter of Americans for Informed Democracy invites you to:

Building a Safer World:
Defining the U.S.-U.N. Relationship for the 21st Century

A Panel Discussion Featuring

Carol Bellamy
Former Executive Director, UNICEF (1995-2005)
Current President of World Learning and the School for International Training.

David Morrison
Director of Communications, United Nations Development Programme.

The Honorable Chris Shays
U.S. Congressman from Connecticut (Republican)
Chairman of Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security

Irving J. Stolberg
Former President, National Conference of State Legislatures (Democrat)
Former Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives

with welcoming remarks from

Harold Hongju Koh
Dean of the Yale Law School
Former Assistant Secretary of State for democracy, Human Rights and Labor (1998 to 2001)

When: 6:30 p.m., November 28th (Monday)

Where: Yale Law School Room 127

What else: Free pizza and refreshments will be served

“Gendering the Curriculum” Town Meeting

Tuesday, December 6, 2005
4:30 to 6:30 p.m., WLH 309

We gather the Yale community to discuss how efforts can be made to “gender” the curriculum across the campuses. The meeting serves as a networking opportunity to galvanize scholarship and teaching around issues of gender at Yale. Specifically, Gendering the Curriculum seeks to identify and gather faculty from across the campus who teach and research on issues of gender, strategize on how to centralize the various efforts of people teaching gender across Yale’s campus, and provide visibility and synergistic presence to the teaching of gender across the university.

We will break the discussion into three parts: a focused roundtable, an open question and response section, and small working groups to focus on themes that arise from the first two parts. We hope to continue the conversation in Spring with opportunities for further on specific key issues raised by the initial town meeting.

Your RSVP would be appreciated for planning purposes
at (203) 432-8847 or wff@yale.edu

“Making Sense of the Esoteric: Tibetan vs. Indian Approaches to Buddhist Tantras”

December 1, 4:30 – 6:30 PM.

Seminar Room (downstairs), 451 College Street.

JACOB DALTON, Religious Studies, Yale University

Sponsored by the Society of Asian Religions.

For more info, contact koichi.shinohare@yale.edu.

5. LiNK Talent Show Cofeehouse!

Otober 28th - December 31st, 2005
"From the Caves to the Square: A Photographic Exhibit of the Tiananmen Square Movement of 1989"

By David E. Apter, Henry J Heinz II Professor Emeritus, Comparative Political & Social Development

Location: Memorabilia Room in Sterling Memorial Library, 120 Wall Street, New Haven

C. Events off Campus

Filipino Musical Concert, December 3

We would like to invite you to attend a Filipino Musical concert entitled "A Musical Evening with Hajji and Rachel Alejandro" on December 3rd, 2005 at 7:00 pm at the John Hancock Hall in Boston, MA. The concert features renowned Filipino artists from the Philippines. Hajji made famous Original Philippine Music hits like "Kay Ganda ng Ating Musika". Part of the proceeds for this concert will be donated to Gawad Kalinga. Your help would be instrumental in making this event successful.

Gawad Kalinga translated in English means "to give care" and it is an alternative solution to the blatant problem of poverty not just in the Philippines but the world. What started barely five years ago in the Philippines as a simple but daring initiative by Couples for Christ has now become a growing multi-sectoral partnership driven by a vision of a new Philippines with NO MORE SLUMS. Together with its partners, Gawad Kalinga is now in the process of transforming poverty-stricken areas, many of them now empowered to further improve their qualtiy of life!

Tickets are at $55.00 and $40.00 and can be available by calling Bebs Sipin (508) 653-0134 and Ning Zuelke (508) 650-4245.

CIPA is having its 2005 Conference at New York University on November 19, 2005 (Saturday). The theme of this conference is "Public Affairs in China". Tentative conference program and registration form are attached. They are also available at www.chinaipa.org.

If you are interested in attending the conference, please email Qiang ZHOU at jeanjoe@gmail.com to indicate your interest. Since the participants list has to be provided to New York University in early November for security reason, please sign up with Qiang ZHOU at your earliest convenience.

Please also note that anyone who wants to participate in the conference must fill out the registration form and pay the applicable registration fee before November 15, 2005. The registration fee is $0 (students and visiting scholars)/$25 (professionals).

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach Qiang ZHOU at jeanjoe@gmail.com. Thank you and hope to see you at the conference.

For more information on China Institute for Public Affairs, please see www.chinaipa.org.
China Institute for Public Affairs

FOR MORE INFORMATION - Please contact Qiang ZHOU at jeanjoe@gmail.com.

It is our great pleasure to invite students from Yale University to apply to

and participate in the "On Common Ground 2006" conferences organized by the

Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford University (FACES), which

will be held at Stanford University on April 16-22, 2006 April 16-22, 2006

and in Beijing or Shanghai next August. The theme of the conferences this

year is “Prospects for Parity between U.S. and China.”

FACES is a Stanford-based forum that promotes exchange and mutual

understanding between American and Chinese university students. Our

mission is to foster grassroots diplomacy and dialogue among American and

Chinese students, scholars, and leaders, while establishing

people-to-people connections that will become the foundation of more

constructive relations between the United States and China.

The conferences in 2005 in America and China are based on the success of our

2003 conference on Stanford campus as well as our 2004 conferences at both

Stanford and Peking University in Beijing. For our "On Common Ground 2006"

conferences, we will bring 50 outstanding American and Chinese students

together first for a seven-day program at Stanford where they will engage

in meaningful academic, cultural, and social activities. The second part

of our conference will be in Beijing or Shanghai in April. We will invite

renowned speakers and panelists to both conferences from a broad array of

disciplines and careers including academia, business, politics, and

government to present and share ideas with our delegates. Past FACES

speakers have included former National Security Advisor Zbigniew

Brzezinski, former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, Ambassador Chas

W. Freeman, U.S.-China Business Council President Robert Kapp, and

Ambassador Michael Armacost.

For applications and more information about FACES, please refer to our website at

http://faces.stanford.edu. Once we have selected and invited your

participants, we will pay for all their costs related to the participation,

including food and accommodation, as well as half the cost of international

air travel.

The selection process will be conducted by us at Stanford, including the

reviewing of application materials submitted by the students and phone

interviews. We hope to cooperate with your university, and we will keep

you informed of more details in our future correspondences.

Attached please find the FACES flyer, with more information. Please

disseminate this information through the flyer or whatever means you find

most convenient.

Once again, we thank you for any help you may render possible to keep your

students informed of the FACES conference. Please do not hesitate to

contact me with any questions or concerns. We look forward to seeing your

students participate in and contribute to the "On Common Ground 2006".

Sincerely,

Mamei Sun

Chair of American Delegate Relations

Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford

http://faces.stanford.edu

D. Scholarship, Fellowship, & Internship Information

Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs

About the Program
Coro Fellows learn about the real world in the real world – by actively questioning, interacting with diverse constituents, finding resources and creating innovative solutions to community challenges. Run for over sixty years, the Fellows Program in Public Affairs is an intensive nine-month, full-time, graduate-level program. Unconventional by traditional academic standards, the program is rigorous and demanding, and is an unparalleled opportunity for personal and professional growth. Sixty-eight Fellows are chosen annually to participate in one of our five center locations: Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco or St. Louis.

Work in the Field

Field Placements are the cornerstone of the Fellows Program. Each Fellow works in a series of month-long, individually tailored field assignments in a business, labor union, a government agency, a community agency, and on a political election campaign.

Gain In-depth Knowledge of the Region

Focus Weeks are concentrated examinations of a particular sector or issue that is relevant in the public affairs arena in a given region. Topics may include Public Finance, State Government, Arts and Media, Healthcare, Education and Federal Government. Fellows at each center location reserve one week to focus in-depth on how public affairs issues play out in a local community.

Substantive Projects

Group projects give Fellows an opportunity to use the skills they have developed to overcome real world obstacles and create solutions for their host organizations. Individual projects allow Fellows to initiate, secure funding for and implement a project that will benefit a host organization of their choice.

Meet Community Leaders and Build Skills
Seminars provide a forum for Fellows to reflect on their field assignments, and with the guidance of Coro training staff, apply their experiences in practical ways. Interviews with influential women and men�from members of Congress to CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies to grassroots community leaders�give Fellows the rare opportunity to explore the motivation, method and logic of skillful leadership.

Program Dates: September 2006 through May 2007

Applications Due: January 6, 2006

Visit the Coro website www.coro.org for more information and an application!

Hello!

I am writing you to publicize a really wonderful and exciting post-graduation opportunity – the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship!

As many of you know, I graduated last year (DC05) and served as a Latina/o Ethnic Counselor. Because I was unsure of what I wanted to pursue after graduation (medical school, graduate school, and public health were all options that crossed my mind), I knew that I needed to take some time off to figure things out.   As a one-year filler, I applied to and was accepted into the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship which aims to train future leaders in the anti-hunger and anti-poverty movement in the USA. The Fellowship is divided into two parts: for the first 6 months, Fellows are placed in twelve sites across the country where they are introduced to the social justice movement on the grassroots level.   For the second six months, all of the Fellows return to Washington, D.C. to understand food/poverty issues on the national level by working in public policy institutions (USDA, Food Research and Action Center, etc.).   This Fellowship provides a great introduction into the non-profit and anti-poverty world as well as allowing Fellows to explore individual interests in the social justice arena.   I am currently working in Salt Lake City, UT (!) and am designing and implementing three community food security assessments to identify barriers to food access in urban, rural, and indigenous communities outside of Salt Lake City.   Fellows are placed all over the country, including NYC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Anchorage, Phoenix, Louisville, Houston, basically anywhere.

Tangible Benefits:
- one-year commitment (great alternative to Teach for America or Peace Corps)
- independent projects in both the field and in D.C.
- access to political networks in social justice arena
- Fellowship experience applicable to law, medical, graduate, and public health careers
- community of 24 young people; nice transition to the working world after graduation
- no previous knowledge of anti-hunger world needed – trust me!

I urge you to seriously consider this Fellowship as an opportunity to have an important and life-changing experience!   On a larger scale, communities of color are disproportionately identified as being food insecure, lacking health care/services, utilizing WIC, food stamps, and other federal feeding programs, and overall being more prone to economic instability (Hurricane Katrina offered a strong example of this).   These communities rarely have leaders who provide a voice and thus a means of accountability from the federal government. More leaders of color are needed to provide the impetus for change that is necessary to create healthier and sustainable communities.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 15, 2006

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
            - visit www.hungercenter.org and click on the link for "Bill Emerson National Fellows Program"
            - current resum�
            - personal statement
            - 2 short essay questions
            - 2 letters of recommendation

QUESTIONS: contact Cecilia at cecilia.cardenas-navia@aya.yale.edu or Shireen Cama (SM04) at cama_shireen@yahoo.com .

Lehman Brothers Vision Scholarship - $7500

The deadline has been extended to December 11, 2005. Only four schools have been selected for this program. Attached is the information from Lehman.

G. Sandra Goodson
Undergraduate Career Services
georgia.goodson@yale.edu

To whom it may concern,

My name is Kaya Clarke and I work for Morgan Stanley Asia Pacific in the Campus Recruiting team. We are presently recruiting for 2006 Summer Analyst positions in our Private Equity and Investment Banking divisions in Asia. I have attached documents which provide more detail about these positions. It would be greatly appreciated if you could email this document to the members of your club.

Prerequisite: Candidates should be class of 2007 students to be eligible for the position. Asian language skills, particularly Korean or Mandarin, are also beneficial.

How to apply: All students should apply via our on-line application at www.morganstanley.com/careers/recruiting to the Asia Pacific Summer Analyst application for Private Equity and Investment Banking. Please note our careers website is the only method by which students can apply.

Deadline for application submission:

Private Equity Division Summer Analyst – December 12, 2005.

Investment Banking Division Summer Analyst – December 12, 2005

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at asia.recruit@morganstanley.com

Kind Regards

Kaya Clarke
Asia Pacific Recruitment
Human Resources

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
WINTER 2005 & SPRING 2006 INTERNSHIPS

DEFENDING ASIAN AMERICAN VOTING RIGHTS
for Undergraduate, Graduate, and Law Students

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans through litigation, advocacy, and community education. Spring and Winter internships are available for college, graduate, and law students in AALDEF’s Voting Rights Program.

In prior elections, Asian Americans faced a series of barriers in exercising their right to vote; for example, ballots have been mistranslated listing Democratic candidates as Republicans and vice versa, lack of interpreters, denial of language assistance, rude and hostile poll workers. Then, when the news media reported on election returns and the vote by specific groups, Asian Americans were overlooked. AALDEF’s Voting Rights Program aims to enhance the political participation of Asian Americans and guard against anti-Asian voter discrimination.

Voting Rights Interns work on the following:

* Reviewing election monitoring reports to advocate for election reforms and compliance with the Voting Rights Act and federal Constitution. The Voting Rights Act mandates Chinese and Korean language voting assistance and forbids anti-Asian voter discrimination. This includes legal research and writing, fact pattern development, and working with clients and witnesses for possible litigation.

* Documenting the use of bilingual ballots and reporting on Asian American voting patterns from AALDEF’s multilingual survey in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.

* Researching the history of anti-Asian voter discrimination and helping to prepare a report to Congress on the need to reauthorize the expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act.

* Assess elections compliance with a voting rights settlement reached in Massachusetts, pursuant to U.S. v. City of Boston.

* Registering new voters after citizenship swearing-in ceremonies.

* Conducting research and advocacy on local, state and federal election reform proposals.

Description of Fall Internships:

Supervision: Interns are supervised by attorneys through regular meetings and trainings.
Compensation: These internships are not paid positions, but academic credit can be arranged.
Hours: Interns work anywhere between 12 to 25 hours per week in the office.
Duration: Winter internships are during intersession and Spring internships usually follows the spring semester, commencing with the start of classes (end of January) to the first or second week of May.

To Apply:

Bilingual ability is helpful but not required. Students with language ability in Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin), Korean, Bengali, Urdu, or Punjabi are especially welcome to apply and languages (if any) should be stated in the resume.

Applicants should also state the number of hours they can work per week and a possible schedule.
Send a resume and cover letter to:

Voting Rights Fall Intern Search

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
99 Hudson Street, 12th floor
New York, New York 10013-2815
fax: 212-966-4303

Email: info@aaldef.org

For more information, contact Glenn D. Magpantay at 212-966-5932, ext. 206 or gmagpantay@aaldef.org.

Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq.
gmagpantay@aaldef.org

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ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND
99 Hudson Street, 12/F New York, NY 10013-2815
Defending the civil rights of Asian Americans since 1974
t: 212.966.5932 f: 212.966.4303 website: www.aaldef.org
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The Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program is a 9-week program that annually provides talented college students of color the opportunity to work in a D.C. Congressional office with major health policy responsibilities. Scholars gain knowledge about federal legislative procedure, and participate in seminars, site visits, and lectures which enhance their knowledge of health care issues. This program is part of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation’s broader health policy work on race, ethnicity, and healthcare, and is offered in partnership with Howard University.

Applications for the summer of 2006 are now being accepted, and they will be reviewed as they are received. Applications are due no later than January 9, 2006. You can access more information on the program, including the application materials at: http://www.kff.org/about/jordanscholars.cfm .

As you may know, the Kaiser Family Foundation recently published Five Years of Leadership Development in Health Policy, which profiles the 57 scholars in the program from 2000-2004. It is available for your viewing at http://www.kff.org/about/upload/Barbars-Jordan-Scholars-Brochure.pdf .

Associate Consultant Intern program

Bain & Company is currently recruiting exceptional undergraduate and non-MBA master’s students in their penultimate school years for the Associate Consultant Intern (ACI) positions in Hong Kong office for the Summer of 2006.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could forward the email below to your members and other interested parties who may be considering consulting opportunities in Asia.

If you are not the appropriate person for this please let me know who I should get in touch with instead.

Thank you and regards,

Caris Wong
Associate Consultant
Bain & Company(Hong Kong) | 68/F, The Center | 99 Queen's Road, Central | Hong Kong
tel: +852 2978 8885 fax: +852 2978 8801
mailto:caris.wong.bain.com | web: www.bain.com

Bain & Company is a leading global strategy consulting firm.

Our Hong Kong office would like to invite undergraduates and non-MBA master’s students in their penultimate years of study who are interested in pursuing a consulting career in Asia to learn more about Bain.

We offer Associate Consultant Intern (ACI) positions to candidates in their penultimate year at school and we are currently recruiting for ACIs to work in Bain Hong Kong office for 2006 Summer. We will also host recruiting events during Christmas and New Year holidays, with more details to be announced later.

Interested parties are invited to submit your application (cover letter, CV, and transcript) to the recruiting coordinator listed below. Applicants please use the email subject heading “ACI application Hong Kong”. For interested parties who would travel to Hong Kong during the Christmas and New Year holidays, please also kindly indicate your availability during that period.

Application submission deadline is December 1, 2005.

Further details of Bain Hong Kong office can be found here:

http://www.bain.com/bainweb/LocalOffices/join_bain.asp?office_id=133&language=1&menu_id=128

Additional inquiries should be directed to the recruiting coordinators listed below.

Hong Kong Recruiting Coordinator

Ms. Angie Shing

Email: recruiting.hk@bain.com

Green Corps 2006-2007 Environmental Leadership Program

Full-time, paid fellowships to top student leaders to get the training they need to win urgent environmental campaigns.
Whether it’s with Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, MoveOn.org, or the Alaska Wilderness Coalition, behind the top environmental organization’s field campaigns, you’ll find a Green Corps organizer. We give one-year fellowships to top student leaders to receive in-depth training and experience running urgent campaigns.

Organization. Green Corps is the non-profit Field School