Thank you to everyone who joined us on the afternoon of Saturday, March 3, 2018 for our AASU retreat, artivism: love reax only [love reacts only].
It was exciting to see everyone. We hope you all can join us again for more upcoming events!
Thank you to Sarah Wong SCR’18 for the wonderful poster!
Welcome back to a new year! Already there are plenty of cool events that you should check out!
AASU is planning for our Spring retreat, and we’ve narrowed down the options to a visit to the Hot Springs or a bowling + dinner trip. SThe poll has been pinned to our Facebook group–if you’re not already a part of it, just email one of Leadership to join! electrachong@gmail.com, NChang9226@scrippscollege.edu, MOkazaki8721@scrippscollege.edu, or AHamiter7543@scrippscollege.edu
AASU is kicking off the new year by restarting our Asian / Pacific Islanders in the Academy series, featuring a lunchtime talk with the wonderful Kēhaulani Vaughn, open to all students. At the 5Cs, she has taught courses such as Decolonizing Education and Pacific Islanders & Education. In addition to her work as a professor, Professor Vaughn is also a board member of EPIC (Empowering Pacific Islander Communities) and also works with STEP (Saturday Tongan Education Program) and the AARC (Asian American Resource Center at Pomona).
For this talk, she will be discussing her personal strategies for navigating the academy, using the communities she works with to ground her work. Banh mi sandwiches (vegetarian and non-vegetarian options) will be provided!
The new LASPA Center is launching the first round of $4,500 action grants which can be used during the summer to enact transformative change. Come to this info session tomorrow if you’re interested in this opportunity! “The goals of the LASPA action grants are to provide opportunities for students (1) to transform knowledge, passion and ideas into action (2) demonstrate creative and effective problem-solving (3) create partnership(s) in public or private sector and (4) produce outcomes that make a positive impact. Areas of focus include but are not limited to government, politics, the arts, STEM, non-profits and NGO’s, corporate sector, technology and education.” FMI on the grants: http://inside.scrippscollege.edu/fellowships/laspa-center-action-grants
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College, will deliver the Consortium’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture: “Youth Activism in Post-Ferguson America.” (see FB link for a description of the work Hill has done.) Afterwards, there will be an informal debrief session in SCORE that will provide the space for a peer-led discussion: “the content is open-ended, but we hope to touch on issues surrounding race and privilege!” Join your fellow students in discussing a timely and important topic!
This is a discussion group for students at the 5C’s who are people of color and identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, queers, trans*, asexual, and/or questioning. The overarching goal of this discussion group is to create a safe space through which we can explore topics of identity and bring together QTPOC students on campus. The specific goals and discussion topics of this group will be (re)defined by its attendees. The discussion will be facilitated by QTPOC graduate students. This is a closed group — if you are an ally to QTPOC individuals, please watch for educational events to attend.
Meet the candidates for the FGSS Assistant Professors! Piya and Phoebe organized a time *just* for SCORE affiliates (that includes us) to meet them, see what they are like and how they can contribute to the community. Two of the sessions have already passed, but there’s still time to meet two other candidates! (Our opinion matters to them!)
Psst… One of the candidates, Jih-Fei Cheng, has been recommended by a legit Scripps alum: “My grad school comrade Jih-Fei Cheng is a finalist for the position. If y’all want a radical mentor/teacher/bad ass extraordinaire on campus, SHOW HIM SOME LOVE. Make it out to his job talk Monday Feb 2nd at 5pm in Vita Nova. It’s an easy + important way to build the Scripps us QTPOC/1st Gen/working class folks need and deserve. Think Tom meets Piya meets Cindy Forster…with Mark’s teaching brilliance.” You heard her!
The first meeting of the semester for the Disability, Illness and Difference Alliance was today (Wednesday) at 7 p.m in GJW. They are an awesome 5C support group for students with disabilities! Contact Eden Amital if you have any questions.
Family, Scripps’s Queer/Straight Alliance, is holding meetings this semester Sundays at 3 p.m. They had their first meeting last Sunday! If you’d like to get on their contact list, contact myscrippsfamily@gmail.com
Let us know if you would like to submit any other events you think AASU people will be interested in, and we can update this list with it! Also feel free to post in the AASU Facebook group!
The QRC, AARC, SCORE, CAPAS, and AdBoard have organized a free trip to the Pasadena Playhouse to see Stop Kiss, a play about API queer love (+ a post-play discussion!), and there are still spots on the trip! Email yogino@scrippscollege.edu ASAP if you want to go along and have some Tuesday night entertainment.invite you to a night out at the Pasadena Playhouse! Join us to see the play Stop Kiss and participate in a post-performance discussion about the show.
EKTA, a 5C South Asian group, is hosting a forum about a proposed “Indian” theme for Wedding Party this year after recent tensions inside EKTA. The forum is an open event and it would be great for students to show solidarity, as there are some concerns about whether an “Indian Wedding Party” would be cultural appropriation or appreciation.
Come join Jim Nakano, the owner of the famous shop The Donut Man in Glendora, known for their strawberry filled doughnuts, tiger tails, and peach doughnuts. (http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-donut-man-glendora) At this lunch event, Nakano will talk about his life story, growing up Japanese American in Los Angeles, internment during WWII, and, of course, how he came to be the proud owner of the famous donut shop!
AARC and AAMP will be screening Linsanity: The Movie, a documentary about Jeremy Lin- Lakers basketball player, Asian American, Harvard grad. One cool dude.
There will be TJ’s snacks, popcorn, and hot food 🙂
Come chill, snack, and watch a awesome documentary.
Come help out and volunteer this Friday with Sheena, one of our AASU members, with a fun Rise Up! workshop creating light art! Rise Up! is a service committee that is a part of the Asian American Resource Center. They organize and facilitate after-school art workshops for high school students in the Chinatown area. This semester, the focus is on economic justice.
Rise Up! will be having a workshop and discussion on our personal experiences with educational access and then will work to create light art reflecting and challenging ideas of the multiple ways in which power and privilege play out in the education system.
From Sheena: Rise Up is having our retreat at the Claremont Colleges this Friday-Saturday. We’re having a college app/information portion from 2:00-3:00PM on Saturday, where the 24 high school students from Chinatown LA (many are seniors applying to college) can get personalized help on their applications or talk about college with a Claremont College student. We need volunteers for this, and I would be really really grateful if any of you could give your time.
Many of these students are from immigrant and refugee families and will be the first in their families to attend college.
Please message me if you’re available! Will give hugs.
Cafe Con Leche has an annual bon(d)fire at the beach and this year they’ve invited all the SCORE clorgs! With smores, beach barbeque, and the ocean! RSVP to hang out with everyone at the beach using the form above. Leaving Scripps at 3:45 and arriving back at 9 p.m.
(for next week):
If you’re not going to the CCL bon(d)fire, hang out at a screen filming Family is hosting over at the Motley in honor of Trans Day of Remembrance! The film will be followed by a discussion.
AASU is starting up a practice of posting a digest of events on uNbound! We will still highlight a choice few at meetings but this will help cut down on detailing long lists during the meetings and make announcements accessible to members who couldn’t make the meeting for the week. 🙂
We will go to the Chinese American Museum to visit the Transpacific Ties exhibit, which features “over 40 artists with disabilities, Transpacific Ties: Bridging Hong Kong and Los Angeles through Art emphasizes the talents of two groups of artists separated by the Pacific Ocean but united in their shared passion for art. The exhibition encourages an ongoing dialogue about the Chinese diaspora; share the stories, histories, and challenges that unite the community; and showcase the many ways in which the community cares for and empowers those with disabilities.” We will also eat dim sum, and have free time in LA Chinatown! Organized by DIDA, CAPAS and AASU and open to all 5C students.
While many indigenous communities struggle to maintain land, culture, and resources, what can we learn from Indigenous-Indigenous relationships within the pervasive structures of settler colonialism? This talk will examine the return of salmon to the Winnemen Wintu of Northern California by the Maori of New Zealand. The talk will be given by Kehaulani Vaughn, a visiting Pitzer professor who is committed to sharing indigenous and Pacific Islander perspectives. Nikki, Pam and Electra all vouch for her as an inspirational individual!
Pacific Islanders are often categorized underneath the Asian umbrella label but their perspectives and experiences are largely neglected. It’s important that we demonstrate that we care about whose land we currently occupy and the ways we are complicit in the systems that oppress others.
BeHeard forums are held by SAS to provide a forum for student concerns and input. The topic for this forum is marginalization on campus following the difficult conversations occurring from the Core 1 discussions. If you’d like to find out more about student marginalization and what has been going on in CORE, be sure to make it out!
Peggy McIntosh is an influential speaker about white privilege who came up with the concept of the “invisible knapsack” to help unpack and explain the concept. FMI about the invisible knapsack: http://amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html
SCORE is hosting a free screening of Dear White People at a Chino Hills Theatre! Transportation will be provided if requested (see event for more details). Tickets may already have run out but you can sign up for stand-by seating. Hope you’ll be there with us!
Pam is part of the Arts and Activism student committee over at SCORE! She helped to start up a zine with friends last year that focused with the motto “by women of color, for women of color.” The topic for this issue is “Resistance” and any submission, artwork or written, will be welcomed. You should submit and see your work among those of others!
As women of color navigating historically white-male institutions, we feel that there is a lack of intersectional space for us to talk about our unique experiences. Come eat food and help build our community! All 5C students who identify as women of color are welcome. Featuring: banh mi, boba, samosas, chips and guacamole; hosted by the Women’s Union (WU), Wanawake Weusi, the International Student Mentor Program (ISMP), EKTA (a 5C South Asian student organization), the Student of Color Alliance (SOCA), and the Asian American Mentor Program (AAMP), MERGE.
Come celebrate Dia de Los Muertos with Cafe Con Leche and enjoy a special performance from Mariachi Serrano de Claremont! There will be cookies to decorate along with music to enjoy. And feel free to bring photos or notes for loved ones to place on the alter 🙂 Support Cafe con Leche with a timely event for holiday festivities! They’re pretty cool people 😀
The QRC, AARC, SCORE, CAPAS, AdBoard, invite you to a night out at the Pasadena Playhouse! Join us to see the play Stop Kiss and participate in a post-performance discussion about the show.
“Stop Kiss tells the story of Sara and Callie who share a first kiss walking through New York City’s West Village one night. The joy of this kiss is brutally interrupted by a vicious hate crime, leaving Sara hospitalized and Callie with a choice to stay or walk away. At times enchanting and comic, and at other times heartbreaking yet hopeful, Stop Kiss is about discovery of a new love, a new voice, and finding one’s courage.” Shared by Monika, our 5c Asian American Advisory Board representative!
Let us know if you would like to submit any other events you think AASU people will be interested in, and we can update this list with it! Also feel free to post in the AASU Facebook group!
We’re excited to start off the new year today with our first meeting! AASU leadership this year (Nikki Chang, Marissa Okazaki, Amelia Hamiter and Electra Chong) has been working hard to get the offices ready since we arrived a week early during Orientation to go through SCORE training.
We’re also hoping to get this website updated with current information and it will be a continual work in progress. Keep checking back, and like our FB page as well!
FB event for first meeting: click here.
Also Check out the Asian American Youth Leadership Summit on August 15!!
Check out the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance 2013 Convention on August 14-18 in Las Vegas, NV!
Last weekend, AASU’s INTRA-committee, a committee dedicated to strengthening the AASU community through support-based events, put on the annual Alumnae event!
“No history, no self; know history, know self.” Understanding context is key to understanding your own experience, and AASU’s Alumnae Weekend event worked to help students begin that process. The event consisted of a casual mixer, Q&A session, and video project session with local API Scripps alumnae. Students were able to get to know their predecessors, ask them all the questions about their experiences, and learned about what it was like to be an API student at Scripps in years past. Delicious lunch from Sanamluang was provided!
Here are some photos from the event!
Thanks to all who were able to make the event!
For our second session of Asian Americans in the Academy, the Asian American Student Union (AASU) is collaborating with Sefa Aina, the director of the Asian American Resource Center (AARC) at Pomona College and is one of the Associate Deans of Students. Sefa has been at Pomona since 2005 and is an active member of the local Pacific Islander community. He is a founding member of Pacific Islander Education and Retention (PIER), which does tutoring and mentoring for Pacific Islander youth in Carson, Long Beach and Inglewood and is also a founding member of the National Pacific Islander Educators Network (NPIEN) and Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC). Prior to arriving at Pomona, Sefa has worked at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center as a counselor, organizational advisor and instructor. He graduated from UCLA with a BA in History and is currently getting a Master’s in Asian American Studies also at UCLA.
In this session, Sefa will be talking about how his personal experience into higher education and how his approach was informed by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center – a center forged out of the 60’s struggles and was committed to staying true to the mission of connecting the campus with the larger AAPI community.
This lunchtime discussion will be held on Wednesday, April 10 from 12pm-1pm in the SCORE Living Room at Scripps! Please invite other students who may be interested, this event is open to all the 5Cs!
We will be providing Vietnamese sandwiches for lunch! Please join us!
Asian Americans in the Academy is a program that hosts lunchtime discussions with students and API-identified faculty or staff members in order to share and learn about the experiences of those working in the academy.
Continuing from last semester, the Asian American Student Union (AASU) is happy to collaborate with Kathleen S. Yep to hold another Asian Americans in the Academy here at Scripps! Asian Americans in the Academy is a program that hosts lunchtime discussions with students and API-identified faculty or staff members in order to share and learn about the experiences of those working in the academy.
Professor Yep is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at Pitzer College and the chair of the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges. Her research and teaching interests include cultural politics, feminist/antiracist pedagogies, social documentation and social movements. She is the author of Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground (Temple University Press, 2009), which examines how working-class Chinese American women and men utilized basketball as a source of collective empowerment in the 1930s. Dr. Yep has published in over six peer-reviewed journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies and Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Awarded Pitzer’s 2010 Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Yep is currently researching the politics of place in Southern California and Hawai’i. Receiving her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, Yep was a University of California President’s Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
This event will be held on Friday, March 29 from 12pm-1pm in the SCORE Living Room at Scripps! Also please invite other students who may be interested, this event is open to all the 5Cs!
Snacks will be provided but please bring your own lunch! Thank-you!
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