AASAnnouncements

Table of Contents:

1. RUN FOR AASA OFFICE!! GET INVOLVED!!

2. Study Break and IRON CHEF- AACC Events!

3. Ethnic Group Announcements

4. Community Announcements

5. Job Opportunities

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1. 

wanna get involved in the
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDENTS ALLIANCE??

RUN FOR OFFICE!!!

CO-MODERATOR(S)
       secretary/treasurer
                                   alumni relations chair
                                               political action committee chair
social cultural committee chair

Nominations Open Now!! (self-nominations)
ELECTIONS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8th
**INFORMATIONAL SESSION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3rd, 7.30pm**
@ the Student Organization Center on Broadway

Moderator(s) (1 or 2)- 2 semester term

-will serve on both the Executive Board and the AASA Board.

-will convene and set the agenda for all Executive Board, AASA Board, and town hall meetings.
- will represent AASA at all other Yale meetings and will serve as administrative liaison to the Asian American student community for the Director of the Asian American Cultural Center.
- will be elected by the Executive Board.  This position may be filled by any undergraduate student who has at least one semester¹s experience working on the AASA Board, on the E-Board, or in one of the committees.

Secretary/Treasurer- 2 semester term

-will record minutes at all Executive Board and AASA Board meetings.
-will keep accounts for AASA and distribute money to its member and affiliate groups.
-will be elected by the general voting population of the Yale community (see Article VII).  The position will be open to all Yale undergraduates.

Alumni Relations Coordinator- 2 semester term

-working closely with Dean Dhall, will aim to strengthen the ties between Asian American students and Asian American Yale alumni by organizing events and sharing information.
-will maintain communications with Asian American alumni, keeping them appraised of AASA activities and relaying information about alumni activity back to AASA.
-will work to widen the Asian American Yale alumni network and maintain a comprehensive database of alumni information. 
-will be elected by the general voting population of the Yale community (see Article VII).  The position will be open to all Yale undergraduates.

Political Action Committee Chair- 2 semester term

-will convene, set the agenda for, and run meetings of the political action committee.  The committee chair will be responsible for holding member and affiliate group representatives accountable for active involvement.  Non-participation will be grounds for loss of group membership in AASA.
-will relay information between the AASA and Executives Boards and the committee.
-will be elected by the membership of the political action committee.  The chair must be a member of the committee.

Social Cultural Committee Chair- 2 semester term

-will convene, set the agenda for, and run meetings of the political action committee.  The committee chair will be responsible for holding member and affiliate group representatives accountable for active involvement.  Non-participation will be grounds for loss of group membership in AASA.
-will relay information between the AASA and Executives Boards and the committee.
-will be elected by the membership of the social/cultural committee.  The chair must be a member of the committee.

Questions?

email Tue (hoang-tuoc.le@yale.edu) or Jin-woo (Jin-woo.chung@yale.edu)

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2. AACC Announcements:

a)

STUDY BREAK
THURSDAY 9pm
Asian American Cultural Center
cosponsors: AASA (Asian American Students' Alliance) and ANAAY (Association of Native Americans At Yale)

b)
Three Dishes...
Two Teams...
One Secret Ingredient...

Asian American Cultural Center presents...

IRON CHEF
Wednesday 12.04
Cooking 5pm, Judging 6pm

Asian American Cultural Center, 295 Crown Street
All are welcome to watch and cheer on the competitors.
If you would like to judge please email tiffany.pham@yale.edu by Wednesday at NOON.

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3. Ethnic Group Annoucements:

a) ViSA: Vietnamese Students Association

ViSA will be having its last general meeting of the semester this Wed. in Saybrook Fellows @ 5:30pm.  We'll be making final preparations for the Cultural Show.

As a reminder, ViSA will be having its cultural show this Friday at 6:30pm in the Art Gallery.  Final rehearsals will be happening this week so be prepared. 

b) KASY: KOREAN AMERICAN STUDENTS OF YALE

1. KASY Elections for the 2003 Board--TUESDAY!

Tuesday, Dec. 3.  9pm.  WLH 1st fl.

Please Come Out and Vote!  Every vote really does count!

2. KASY Formal--Next Tuesday!

Tuesday, Dec. 10.  7pm.  Bentara (76 Orange Street). 

Awesome Dinner Finale for KASY 2002, only $50 a couple ($25 per person)

c) CASA: Chinese American Students Association

Elections will be held on the Wednesday evening (12/4/02) when we return from Break @ 9 PM. Location to be announced.

Please come out and show your support by voting for who you want to see as the future face of CASA!

d) TAS: Taiwanese American Society

1. Elections for 2003 TAS Board

Tuesday 12/3 @ 8 PM  LC 317

Don't think every vote counts?  Remember the last Presidential election?  How about last year's TAS elections?  EVERY VOTE COUNTS!!  Come have a say in the future of your beloved TAS. 

Please note:  Meeting starts @ 8 PM (NOT the usual 9 PM)

2. TAS Dumpling Nite (perhaps a dumpling eating contest....while supplies last)

Back by popular demand.  There's nothing more satisfying than getting your hands dirty, making your own dumplings and then eating them.  Who can eat the most dumplings? The board puts their money on Dorothy!

Saturday 12/7

11 PM

Asian American Cultural Center (AACC)

3. Fall 2002 TAS BANQUET

Out with the old and in with the new....our last hurrah....celebrate good times!!

The 2002 TAS Board has had all the pleasure serving the TAS community this past year.

We couldn't do it without you all, so let's celebrate our achievements together and also welcome in

the next board.

Where: Thai Pan Asian (it's a new restaurant :-)  1150 Chapel St.

right across from the Colony Inn on Chapel St. (between York and Howe)

When: Monday 12/9 @ 6:15

How much: $13/person

Please RSVP by emailing jennifer.lee@yale.edu by Sunday 5 PM

If there are any vegetarians out there, please let me know so we can accommodate you.

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4. Community Announcements:

a)

APO Reading Week @ the New Haven Free Public Library

Story Hours

    Dec 4-6 : 4-5 PM

Holiday Party

    Dec 7:     12-2 PM

Bring your tutees, mentees! Tell them to bring their siblings.

b)

TALKING ABOUT RACISM IS EVERYONE'S RESPONSIBILITY
YOU DON'T AGREE, THEN COME TELL US WHY?
EITHER WAY - SHOW UP AND SPEAK UP

THIS WEEK'S TOPIC: Race, Ethnicity, and Coalition Building at Yale
This is a timely topic in light of the work of the MLK Day
Coalition, which needs our support now!

Tuesday December 3rd
8 pm
WLH 113

The Anti-Racism Group is a new organization that holds discussions on
Race, Racism, and Privilege at Yale.  The group is also a member of the
Pan-Ethnic coalition and is pushing for the professional training of
residential and ethnic counselors in racial issues and for diversity in
the Yale faculty, among other campaigns. The group holds meetings every
other week when our different working groups come together to talk about
their projects and have a discussion on issues of racism facing Yale.  
Come if you want to be more involved with the group, or if you just want
to join the discussion.

Contact kristina.weaver to be added to/removed from our discussion or
announcement lists, or if you have any questions.

c)

It's time!!!
BHANGRA BLOWOUT  TRYOUTS...

Join the 2003 Bhangra Blowout team!!!  The team will travel to DC for the Bhangra Blowout intercollegiate dance competition held yearly at GWU.  "Bhangra" is a high energy folk dance from the Indian state of Punjab.  No experience necessary.  Just come, learn some new steps, and be pumped up with energy.  We're going to make this year's team the HOTTEST ever!

2 audition times:
               MONDAY at 9 pm in the Gym, 5th Floor E/F
                       (9 pm Guys, 9:30 pm Girls)
               THURSDAY at 8 pm in Berkeley's Multipurpose Room
                       (8 pm Girls, 9 pm Guys)

Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the assigned time...
CONTACT:  For more info or if you absolutely cannot make these times, contact Neema at neema.trivedi@yale.edu.

d)

For students interested in applying to Ph.D. Programs at Yale:

VISIT YALE IN NEW YORK CITY
Yale Graduate School Application Seminar
Friday, Dec. 6, 10am-2:30pm
Yale Club of New York

Registration fee will be waived for any student wishing to attend the seminar.  TO RSVP and for more information, email grad.diversity@yale.edu or contact Dean Cariaga-Lo's office at 2-0763.

e)

Cave Canem*

Poetic Elegance
at the Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park Street
4 nationally acclaimed African American poets will read from their work:

Nikky Finney
Natasha Tretheway
DJ Renegade
Terrance Hayes

Wednesday December 4 @ 7:30pm
Free and open to the public

Event sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity as
part of the 150th Bouchet celebrations, Ethnicity, Race & Migration
and the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale.

f)

STELLA MAGAZINE

Stella will be launched this February and distributed on newsstands across the US and Canada. Articles in the premiere issue will explore: reinventing womanhood; sex workers: the invisible women in our society; the rise of STDs among white, middle class, suburban girls; the difficulty of interfaith relationships; when a Black girl gets pregnant: the risk to society; hidden epidemic: violence in the South Asian community; 10 definitions of power. ALL OF THE ARTICLES IN STELLA ARE GENERATED BY THE WRITERS. Regular departments will include: politics, global youth movements, the psychology of love, cybersex, religion.

TO SUBMIT: Articles should examine aspects of sex, sexuality, relationships or power. They should be 800 words in length and emailed to:

sharleneazam@hotmail.com
Phone: (501) 883 9276.

At Yale, contact stephen.osserman@yale.edu and margaret.reuland@yale.edu.

g)

New England Women’s Conference
(New England Land Grant Women’s Conference)

December 5 - 6, 2002

Hosted by the University of Vermont
Women’s Center, the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, and Women’s Studies

This conference is for students, faculty, and staff associated with New England women’s centers, women’s studies programs, and president’s commissions.
The conference provides a forum for sharing strategies and ideas around the work we are all doing, and strengthening our network of support. We will have presentations by students, faculty, & staff but will also have some unstructured time to discuss common interests. A detailed agenda will be published prior to the conference.

We’ll get started on Thursday evening with dinner and conclude by 4:00 p.m. on Friday.
(information about dinner & lodging will follow.)

Fee: $25 to cover continental breakfast and lunch on Friday. No Charge for Students. To register, send email to Sharon Snow at sharon.snow@uvm.edu

h)

Queer? Religious? Both?

Queer People of Faith Discussion and Tea
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
4:00 pm
Yale College Chaplain’s Office
(Basement of Bingham entryway D)

Come schmooze with us and join us in our discussion of the relationship between faith and sexuality and to explore the place of queer people of faith within our faith traditions, on this campus, and in the world. People of every faith tradition and sexual identity welcome. See you there!

Contact: carolina.oster@yale.edu, rabbi.lina@yale.edu, cynthia.terry@yale.edu

i)

SOCIAL JUSTICE THEATRE IN NEW HAVEN - DEC 6
First Friday Café presents
“Yale & The Community —
Retooling the Company Town”
On Friday, December 6, at 7:30 pm the First Friday Café at the New Haven People’s Center, 37 Howe Street, New Haven, will present a program entitled “Yale & The Community — Retooling the Company Town”, which will explore the history of labor struggles at Yale University while examining the current struggle for both union and social contracts with workers and the community.
Singer/songwriter David Rovics, accompanied by Allie Rosenblatt, will perform “songs of social significance”. Rovics makes his return visit to First Friday Café, having performed at the very first event two years ago. According to Amy Goodman, host of the popular Pacifica Radio program Democracy Now!, “David Rovics is the musical version of Democracy Now!” visit David at his website, www.davidrovics.com.
In addition, the Connecticut Center for a New Economy will show a Multimedia Presentation on the “Struggle to Build Workers’ Power” with much information on the history of labor struggles in New Haven. Art work and vintage photographs will also be displayed.
The New Haven People’s Center, 37 Howe Street, New Haven, is proud to present an alternative coffeehouse, the “First Friday Café”, which will be held in the main room of the People’s Center on the first Friday of each month. First Friday Café hosts monthly cultural and political music, poetry, dance, discussion and refreshments. Contact the First Friday Café at (203) 624-8664.

j)

The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
and the Women's & Gender Studies Program
present the third event in the series:
Gender, Globalization, and Feminist Politics

Tuesday December 3rd
WLH 208, 100 Wall Street
4.30pm

Alia Arasoughly, Palestinian filmmaker, currently working with the UN in Ramullah on projects dealing with women and the media, will show two films:

"Torn Living" (23 mins. 1993)
This is a personal documentary exploring the themes of memory, identity
and community in the life of the filmmaker and other Palestinian women.
Torn Living challenges and disrupts traditional boundaries of
experimental personal documentary and news documentary, subjectivity and
intersubjectivity, autobiography and biography, fragmentation of
geography and periodization of history, in its attempt to tell a
narrative of exile, diapora and yearning.

"This is Not Living" (42 mins. 2001)
This new film features portraits of 8 Palestinian women from different social and religious backgrounds exploring how they live war and imagine peace in the profound depth of lived realities and felt pains. These are not unusual women, women leaders or exceptional women in the news media sense. These are the ordinary lives which make up the news and which the news makes invisible. What they say so powerfully and directly through their hopes and wishes is that they want a life of meaning, of sharing and giving, of routines and rituals, of loving and caring, of ordinariness with all its blessing and grace. They do not want the degrading, terrorizing drama of war."

Free and open to the public
For more info contact Vron.Ware@yale.edu

k)

New England Women’s Conference
(New England Land Grant Women’s Conference)

December 5 - 6, 2002

Hosted by the University of Vermont
Women’s Center, the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, and Women’s Studies

This conference is for students, faculty, and staff associated with New England women’s centers, women’s studies programs, and president’s commissions.

The conference provides a forum for sharing strategies and ideas around the work we are all doing, and strengthening our network of support. We will have presentations by students, faculty, & staff but will also have some unstructured time to discuss common interests. A detailed agenda will be published prior to the conference.


We’ll get started on Thursday evening with dinner and conclude by 4:00 p.m. on Friday.
(information about dinner & lodging will follow.)

Fee: $25 to cover continental breakfast and lunch on Friday. No Charge for Students. To register, send email to Sharon Snow at sharon.snow@uvm.edu

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5. Opportunities

a)

Light & Truth on the Women's Center:

"With as many as six coordinators at any given moment, it seems that just about anyone can be a feminist leader."
-Light & Truth 2002 Survival Guide

fem·i·nist, n., 1895: One who practices feminism: the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.
-Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary

The Yale Women's Center:
Working to assure that ALL leaders are feminist leaders.

Do you have what it takes?
Apply to be a coordinator today.

For more information, contact womens.center@yale.edu

b)

Dear Club Officers and Members:

Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific is accepting applications for summer analyst and associate positions. Selected candidates will be contacted for interviews by the Hong Kong office in mid-January. If you are interested in working in the Asia Pacific region, please apply online at www.gs.com/careers. Online Application Deadline: December 13th For the Asia Pacific regional career guide, please visit http://www.gs.com/careers/regional_career_guide_asia_pacific/index.html

Regards,
Isaac Leung
Goldman Sachs Asia
Campus Recruiting

c) SEE ATTACHED

APAICS Internship & Fellowship Program Alumni:

You've probably seen the Press Release for the 2003 Summer Internship and 2003-04 Fellowship applications letting folks know that we've posted the applications to our website (www.apaics.org).

We wanted to e-mail you a copy of the APAICS applications so you can forward it to your friends and through your networks.   The internship program is geared toward college students, and the fellowship program is geared toward graduate and post-graduate students.  Students should know that APAICS does not accept applications via e-mail or fax.  The deadline for all of the applications is January 31, 2003.

Thanks for helping us get the word out, and if you're in DC next summer, let us know so we can invite you to our events!

Emmy Akiyama
Deputy Director
APAICS

d) AYA FELLOWSHIPS:

It's not too early to begin thinking about next summer!!  Be part of a phenomenal program that offers students the opportunity to spend eight weeks of the summer working full-time in community service positions.  Fellowship sites are located across the country and  two international cities this year - Hong Kong (requires fluent Cantonese speaker) and Paris (requires fluent French speaker).  

Approximately 35 fellowships will be offered. Each Fellowship is sponsored by Yale alumni who also provide housing and a stipend of  $2500 per student.   The program is open to all Yale undergraduate and graduate/professional students who are not in their final year of study.

To learn more about the program, hear former Fellows speak about their experiences and obtain an application form- please attend one of the following information sessions which will take place at  Rose Alumni House, 232 York Street on the following dates:

Thursday, December 5              6:00 p.m.
                Wednesday, December 11        12:30 p.m.
                Friday, December 13                6:00 p.m.

The application deadline is Thursday, January 16, 2003 by 5:30 p.m.  If a student is interested in applying to the program and cannot attend any of the information sessions, please contact me directly.

Thank you!
Lanch McCormick

Lanch C. McCormick
Assistant Director for Student Programs
Association of Yale Alumni
Phone:  203.432.1944
Fax:  203.432.0587