Announcements (Congrats Cornell, National Board App due Tmr, Response to CU Campus Press Update)
Nancy Yi Liang
Announcements This Week (Friday Edition)
(submit announcements to communi...@ecaasunational.org by Sunday, 11:59 PM—usually announcements are delivered Monday, this week’s just special)
This is what’s up:
· Congratulations Cornell ECAASU on a record breaking conference!
· ECAASU National Board Applications Due TOMORROW!
Congrats Cornell, ECAASU 2008 Conference!
The National Board would like to congratulate Cornell University on a great conference. A record 1,500 people attended the ECAASU Conference at Cornell this year!
We hope to see this enthusiasm repeated at Rutgers University next year at ECAASU 2009: Distinct worlds, one vision. For more information, please visit their bid website at http://conference.ecaasunational.org.
Last, if you attended ECAASU this year, please fill out an evaluation. Your opinion is greatly appreciated and will be used towards organizing ECAASU 2009.
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ECAASU National Board Applications Due Tomorrow! Last chance to apply!
The East Coast Asian American Student Union (ECAASU) is seeking interested and dedicated people to serve on its National Board, which provides leadership for ECAASU. This is a great opportunity for you to be a part of a national organization that encompasses more than 1,000 college students and alumni. Being on the National Board will require some travel, and attendance during conference call meetings is expected. We welcome you to join us in making a significant national impact on the Asian American community. The following positions are open:
· Communications Chair
· Internal Chair
· Alumni Chair
· *Advocacy Chair (new position opening!)
· Webmaster
Terms are 2 years each (except for Advocacy, one year). For more information and application, please visit http://www.ecaasunational.org/nationalboard_app.html
Applications are due March 1st, 2008 (that’s TOMORROW). Good luck!
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Students organize against article in CU Campus Press, “If it’s war the Asians wants…”
On Wednesday this past week, an article in Colorado University at Boulder’s Online Newsletter, campuspress.com, published an article titled “If it’s war the Asians want… it’s war they will get.” Media coverage CU versity of Colorado students have garnered in organizing against this piece.
“Their efforts provide us a truly empowering, inspirational model of how students can go beyond simply condemning rhetoric that incites violence and hate in our communities,” says Christina Chen, Columbia ’09, NAASCon. “By seeking to enact change in a systemic culture of discrimination that marginalizes people of color, queer people, the poor and working class, people of faith, and other communities of "difference". CU students have presented school administrators with demands that include the resignation of The Campus Press faculty advisor and student editor, and changes w/in the school of journalism. Let's lend our support to our progressive APA brothers and sisters at this time.”
An online petition is available at http://www.petitiononline.com/MaxKarso/petition.html.
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FYI on the media coverage of this movement. Several of the sites
have videos as well!
News Stations:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15435357/detail.html
http://cbs4denver.com/local/karson.campus.press.2.665039.html
Newspapers:
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/feb/28/paper-suspends-karson/
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/feb/27/asian-hate-column-sparks-demonstration/
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One other point "No Hablo Ingles" was published the day before the
Max Karson article. Lauren Geary is a student at the School of
Journalism. While the intent doesn't escalate to a call for violence the
content is again questionable in terms of the racism and hate that it conveys.
"No hablo ingles" - Lauren E. Geary
http://www.thecampuspress.com/media/storage/paper1098/news/2008/02/17/Opinion/No.Hablo.Ingles-3214624.shtml?refsource=collegeheadlines
Lastly, these are recent links from the local newspaper including a letter from
other Campus Press editors who did not agree with the decision.
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/feb/26/cu-students-want-press-changes/
http://media.www.thecampuspress.com/media/storage/paper1098/news/2008/02/26/Opinion/A.Letter.From.Some.Different.Editors-3234731.shtml
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Absolutely Nothing to Do With ECAASU Column
You know how when a choir sing, you can never tell what words they are singing? Does that annoy anybody?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ZnPE3G_YY
-- NYL
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