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California State University, Dominguez Hills
November 18, 2020 • VOL. 26, NO. 6
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Virtual Graduation Looking Real
By Daniel Tom | Staff Reporter The dream of walking across the stage at Dignity Health Sports Park to the sounds of your cheering family members next spring is most likely going to stay that way.
California State University, Dominguez Hills President Thomas A. Parham said Thursday that if “all things stay the same,” the graduating class of 2021 will be the second at
Pow Wow to Bring Sacred Touch Online
CSUDH to celebrate graduation virtually. Parham was part of a Connecting with Students virtual event Thursday that included other campus administrators, faculty and
students panelists designed to check in with students about how they were handling this topsy-turvy semester. In the two-hour meeting, Parham, joined by ASI
President Rihab Shuaib, along with administration, faculty and student panelists, shared their thoughts about what the university [See GRADUATION, page 4]
By Iracema Navarro | Politics Editor, Yeymy Garcia | Production Editor Even though the pandemic has wiped out any chance of live celebrations for Native American Heritage Month, two California State University, Dominguez Hills’ organizations are committed to honoring those who hold this land sacred by staging a Virtual Pow Wow on Friday, Nov. 20 at noon. “There’s not a lot of universities that are doing virtual pow wows and we are very happy that in such a short period of time we’re able to develop something that still honors our Native Americans and specially in the heritage month,” Miami Gelvezon-Gatpandam said. Gelvezon-Gatpandam is the coordinator for CSUDH’s
Servicing, Learning, Internships & Civic Engagement (SLICE) and American Indian Institute (AII), the offices that have staged a pow wow every spring since 2011. But the planned 10th annual event in April was as postponed due to the pandemic. But SLICE and AII were determined to celebrate, reflect, and honor the importance of Native Americans by creating a website for the Pow Wow in order to avoid technical glitches for everyone to enjoy on their own time. It was also an easy way to reach out to the Native American community for submissions of videos, photos, and infor[See REFLECTION, page 11]
Photo by Rohema Muhamed
Campus Spiritual Leader Jimi Castillo, a Tongva/Acjachemen pipe carrier, last year at CSUDH’s 9th Annual Pow Wow, hosted by CSUDH centers SLICE and the American Indian Insititute.
Long History Behind New AAPI Major
By Destiny Jackson | Perspectives Editor The South Bay has been shaped by many cultures. Native peoples first settled it, Spanish and Mexican roots plunge deep, Anglo Americans stole it in 1848, and the souls of Black folks are woven into the DNA of the university at its center, from the 1965 Watts Insurrection that prompted its move to Carson, to CSUDH having the highest
percentage of Black students of any California State University school. But the influence of Asian American and Pacific Islanders on the region rivals them all.. Just east of this campus, more people of Cambodian descent live in Long Beach than anywhere in the world outside Cambodia. To the west, the city of Gardena was
long known as “Little Tokyo of the South Bay.” Carson, the city this university is in, had the highest percentage of Filipino and Pacific Islanders of any LA County city , according to the 2000 U.S. Census. And a 15-minute walk from CSUDH is Victoria Park, where Los Angeles Samoan flag day is held every August. On this campus, Toyota, which has its North American
headquarters in neighboring Torrance, is title sponsor of the Toyota Center for Innovation in STEM Education, an anchor of the unversity’s $82 million Science and Innovation Building. CSUDH has more than 20,000 photographs, documents and other artifacts documenting the 20th Century Japanese American experience, and Greg Williams, director of the
university’s Archives and Special Collections, is also project director for the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project. But even with that intimate past and present, it wasn’t until this semester, some 52 years after the first Asian American studies program was launched at San Francisco State, that a major will be [See AMERICANS, page 11]