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Several Filipino-American youth have joined The Scripps National Spelling Bee in the United States. It is also the longest-running program by the E.W. Scripps Company.
There are 18 youths who will be joining and contending for the title Spelling Bee Champion. The finals will be aired on ABC, Friday, 8pm-10pm ET.
The Asian American Journalists Association has selected students who will compete for the J. Camp for journalism skills and academic achievement.
J. Camp will be on July 18-23, 2008 at Loyola University Chicago. “J Camp gives students the confidence to make a difference with a future career in journalism,” said Douglas W. Nelson, president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Graduates of Annapolis are assigned to be in the Navy or Marines. Among them are many Filipino-American who graduated in the U.S.A.
Master Chief Bernard Quibilan of Cebu is one of the Filipino-American who is honored during the graduation ceremony. He became the highest ranking officer of the Navy before he retired just early this year.
An 86-year old Japanese-American name Norman Sato was one of those requested to receive an honorary degree last Sunday at the University of Washington.
Sato was one of those who are compelled by the Japanese fighters who attacked Pearl Harbor to be transferred in an internment camp. He was then a sophomore when he moved to an internment camp in Idaho and later on joined the US army…
Donald Hall, a new dean to be placed in the College of Visual & Performing Arts went at the university to have a meeting with the administration and to have a press conference with the students. Two of the Asian-American students in that university attended the said conference and they have discussed about having an Asian/American program studies on campus.
The soon-to-be dean agreeably responded saying: “You have my full support”… he said that the university should be open-minded for some group of students who has a clear need for their studies. One more interesting point that he wants for the university is to make the study abroad programs inexpensive for the student. And lastly he wanted the funds of the College of Arts and Sciences to be used in putting up organizations for students who are eager to learn.
The university is now hoping to have a new dean for their department, after three consecutive schedules of selecting a dean.
Crystal Cove Auditorium was filled up by audiences as the Comedy Troupe performed a show entitled “Room To Improv”. Comedy Troupe is composed of world-class Asian-American performers who is doing different kinds and uniquely made shows.
The “Room to Improv” show had a mock political debate and making it a unique and fun show because they had the audiences participated, they replaced key words with fun word such as “cheese shortage”…
As they quoted from New University ““We want to be looked at as Asian- Americans doing improv, not Asian-Americans doing Asian -American improv,”
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SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM 2008
The Chinese American Museum is offering two (2) paid, full-time summer internships for qualified undergraduate students from June 16- August 22, 2008.
One Curatorial/ Collections internship to catalog, organize, and research in support of our next permanent exhibit about Chinese American culture. The intern will also be assisting with preparing exhibition space for CAM’s upcoming temporary exhibit.
One Education internship to develop curriculum about Chinese American history and immigration, assist in docent training, and help in developing public programs at the Museum.
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Korean Culture Night was hosted Wednesday evening by the Korean student group Hanoolim. It was combined modern elements and cultural performances into a play titled “Jung” to express the importance and value of family and friendship. For more than 20 years, Korean Culture Night has been held annually at UCLA to highlight the Korean community in Los Angeles. Since 2005, the event has been a cohesive production. The event was sponsored by local businesses in Koreatown who paid for the set and costumes.
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V. Mohini Giri, a women’s rights activist in India and Nobel Prize nominee, will speak at Columbia College May 5, sharing her story of helping women in India. The internationally known social activist will offer her ideas on what American women and men can do to make a difference throughout the world. The Lessons in Leadership presentation will be held at 6 p.m. in the Breed Leadership Center, room 201-202. This event is free and open to the public.
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“Dark Matter,” the filmmaking debut of Chinese-born opera and theater director Chen Shi-zheng, gets full credit for slamming head-on into any number of hot-button topics in American society. First and most interestingly, Chen’s film captures, from the inside, the strange and insular world of the Chinese graduate students who increasingly dominate the math and science fields at major American universities. It also engages the subtle forms of racism and stereotyping that continue to inform non-Asians’ perceptions of this “model minority.” I guess this is a spoiler, but there’s no way around it: Finally, “Dark Matter” tries to convey how an underslept, overworked, culturally dislocated student could erupt in a psychotic outburst of violence, as has happened in a couple of notorious cases.
Chen’s film (written by Billy Shebar, from a story he co-wrote with Chen) is based on a shooting incident at the University of Iowa in 1991, and was completed well before the Virginia Tech shootings in April 2007. Neither the movie nor the Iowa case bears any resemblance to the Virginia Tech case, in which the shooter was an undergraduate English major and a longtime legal resident of the United States, not a foreign student. (If you don’t want to know more about the plot of “Dark Matter,” don’t read news accounts of the Iowa case, as the fictional events follow the real ones closely.)
“Dark Matter” is rich with interesting themes and ideas, from the slippery, sycophantic nature of academic success to the Orientalist attitudes of rich Americans and the outer edges of astrophysical theory.