Cal Kronicle | Summer 2014

University of California, Berkeley

Cal Kronicle VOLUME XX | EDITION II | SUMMER ISSUE 2014

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRO P2-3 FELLOWSHIP P11-13 SERVICE P4-7 Divisional Retreat SF Pride Fourth Of July Dragon Boat Beyond Ramen Grad Photos KIWANIS KORNER P14 Animal Shelter Spotlight District Initiatives MISC P15 LEADERSHIP P8-10 Summertime Sadness Golden Gate OTC Crossword Puzzle What’s A Subregion?

calendar sun mon tues wed thurs fri sat

10 11 *Aquatic Park Egret (Vivian) *BTM Firefighter Challenge (Edison)

(Vivian)

17 18 *Playland Not At

19 20 *Kiwanis Meeting

The Beach Shift 1 & 2 (Robert)

(Vivian)

24 25 *K to College

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Shift 1 & 2 (Edison)

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12 13 *Kiwanis Meeting

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14*Kiwanis Dine 15 Out (Vivian) *District Summer Service Social (Edison)

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*Lifelong Medical Care Job & Education Fair (Edison)

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good luck on summer session finals! :)

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16 *St. Mark’s Shift 1 & 2 (Jasmine)

23 *Starry Night

San Francisco (Edison)

29 30 *Golden Gate *Street Meal August DCM @ LMC (Bertha)

(Edison) *Single Service: Storyland (Jasmine)

Check online at ucbcki.org or contact the chair for more information!

letter from the president Whether you’ve spent this summer in Berkeley, at home, overseas, or in outerspace —I hope it has been a joyous one!

My summer involved three weeks in Torrance, but the bulk of it was in Berkeley, with classes and working as a literacy tutor (DSI in real life!). Personally, I like to look at summer as time to really clear the clutter in your mind and be proactive about your passions. Honestly, spending an entire day sleeping, eating, and watching movies in bed is not how you want to use your freetime.

Get up and go! I’ve gotten back into some beloved passions like running, writing, and reading (need a summer reading recommendation? Norwegian Wood by Murakami is absolutely brilliant). I’ve also been cleaning and reshaping the infamous Cave (my bedroom). Most importantly, I’ve been spending time with people, from old friends to new friends!

To simply be happy with who you are and the life you lead, despite its many flaws and faults (which we all have many, many of) is absolutely essential. I truly hope this summer has been wonderful for you, and if it hasn’t (which happens, so don’t sweat it!), know that there’s always a chance for it to turn out marvelously.

I also want to thank you for being Circle K active this summer! Y’all have certainly been proactive about your passion for service, and I am always so inspired by you. Whether it’s waking up at 5am for Divisional Service at the SF Marathon, spending all day at the cash register during Real Madrid v.

Inter Milan Concessions, playing at Cordonices Park cooking some patties with that Sweet Baby Ray’s, or beyond, together we’ve done tremendous things this summer. Furthermore, I want to give a huge thank you (& hugs!) to everyone who came out to Brain, Body, & Belly Beyond Ramen this summer. It was a big revamp for our summer meetings and the outcome was spectacular. Thank you to every single attendee for truly being so wonderful. I can’t wait to see what happens in the fall!

With service, leadership, and fellowship

Bertha Te

2014-2015 UC Berkeley Circle K President

letter from the editor

>>>The Real Madrid v. InterMilan game! Well, Summer 2014. My first summer in Berkeley!

Whether you were here taking classes or back at home, I hope going through this after the game ended and everyone left...We see the game or the players, but we newsletter made you feel like you were here with all of us, from serving our local DIDdidn’t feed a lot of hungry spectators and raised community money for our DFIs! to just chilling at general meetings and socials. I definitely enjoyed how much more free time I had to really enjoy Berkeley! I had more time to go to our continuous service projects and events, such as Start With A Story, Loaves and Fishes, and Kiwanis Dine-Outs. I also got to go to the Dragon Boat Racing and concessions at the Real Madrid Inter Milan soccer game. But even as summer comes to an end, I’m excited to start my second year and return to the regular bustle of school (even if it means less than five hours of sleep every night)! Hope everyone had as great of a summer as me hehe and I’ll see you in the fall!

Heyun Jeong

2014-15 UC Berkeley Circle K Publications Editor

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SERVICE

Summer 2014 totals

$7,201.82

dollars fundraised >> goal: $18,000

2,195 service hours ~ 13 weeks

Thank YOU for all your hard work and dedication so far! :)

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SF PRIDE FESTIVAL On June 29th, the streets of San Francisco were dedicated to the LGBT community and its pride. The largest gathering of LGBT people and allies, SF Pride is both a two-day festival and a parade showcasing companies, organizations, and groups of people supporting equal rights. The BART was the most crowded I have ever seen it, packed with people, all trying to get to the parade on time.

By Jasmine Park, Single Service Chair

Alan Perez, Mike Zhou, Erinn Wong, Josie Xu, Claire Lee, Kristy Kim, Liane Kuo, and I volunteered with Equality California and marched down Market Street with all of the floats, music, and color. Before our shift started, we got to watch most of the parade go by and saw floats from Google, Facebook, and Orange is the New Black. After the parade, a few of us stayed to eat lunch and then help with the second shift at the festival portion of Pride. Our trek to a taqueria was extra long as we had to push our way through a bunch of dancing people in the music part of the festival. Lunch ended up being very deFor this event, licious and then we set out to find the

Equality California booth for shift two.

For the next hour we helped collect signatures in support of “End the Panic Defense,” a movement to eliminate “gay panic” defenses that blame the victims’ sexual orientation or identity.

This was kind of a difficult task, but Mike was able to collect a lot of signatures. We finally got on the BART to go back to Berkeley at around 5 pm. SF Pride was a tiring but enjoyable allday event.

DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL On Sunday July 17th, eight UC Berkeley Circle K’ers embarked on a journey to the California Dragon Boat Association’s Sprint Race! Teams from all over Northern California gathered to compete in CDBA’s 11th Annual Sprint Race. This event attracted Dragon Boaters of all ages and abilities. For shift one, I met with Vivian Nguyen, Jasmine Park and Stefanus Candra in Berkeley at 5:45AM. We took three buses to travel to Alameda Point (also known as “Seaplane Lagoon”), where the event took place. The location was beautiful, offering panoramic views of the San Francisco skyline; it used to be a naval air station! The first shift consisted of parking lot duty.

We essentially created a parking lot out of empty land; there were no parking lane markers so it was our job to instruct the cars to park in an orderly fashion and keep the parking lot nice and organized. Vivian enjoyed this job a lot: “We were able to successfully direct the flow of traffic and

By Claire Lee, Outstanding General Member

form a parking structure from scratch. steerer. The job kept us on our feet at It was really fun!” the start and end of every race! We also helped scoop out water that got into We had some down time the dragon boats between before the second shift races, so there wouldn’t be started so we left the parkextra water weight for the ing lot and headed toward next round’s competitors. where the actual races Vivian summed up the event were taking place. Some of well: “It was really fun and us helped with lunch prep interesting to see how dragsuch as cutting watermelon on boat racing works! It was and pineapples while the great seeing people of all others enjoyed the view ages participate.” and cheered on the different dragon boat teams. I Luckily, Jerry drove us back cheered for the Cal Dragon Boat team! to Berkeley so we didn’t have to take 3 buses again. It was a hot day and we At noon, Heyun Jeong led Kevin Chen were all exhausted when the event and Josie Xu over to Alameda Point to was over. When asked to describe the join us for the second shift. Jerry Bao event in one word, Jasmine said “sunalso drove over after burn.” Several of us left the event with the divisional member sunburnt faces. Jasmine’s hands also retreat. For shift two, hurt from gripping the ropes so hard we were assigned when she was holding the boats at the dock duty. We had the dock. important job of tying and untying the boats Nonetheless, this was an amazing to the dock as the pad- event! It was fun working with Circle K dlers load and unload. and learning about dragon boats and Each dragon boat had I’m definitely looking forward to volten rows—twenty unteering more at Dragon Boat events paddlers total, with —next time, I’ll go prepared with sunone drummer and one screen.

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thank you to all who worked grad photos!

22 people volunteered at UC Berkeley, SFSU, and Stanford graduation ceremonies to help take photos from mid-May to June.

We served over 350 hours & raised $5,000!

Animal Shelter

By Mimi Ton, FTC Chair

What’s better than cute pictures and videos of animals online? Dogs and cats in real life! This summer, Circle K members have been volunteering their time at the Berkeley Animal Care Services (BACS), a local no-kill animal shelter.

This shelter has a variety of different services—enforcing ordinances related to animals, assisting injured wildlife, impounding stray pets, and investigating cases of of animal-related neglect and cruelty. There are also adoption services for the animals submitted to BACS. Many of the dogs and cats are available for adoption. Unfortunately, some have histories of neglect and abuse; frequent human interaction can help in rehabilitation and better their experience at the shelter. The trips to the animal shelter consist of playing with cats and kittens in the cat rooms and cuddling and walking dogs of all sizes. Sometimes there are other animals that get dropped off at the

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shelter such as guinea pigs, birds, and any other injured wild animals. However, volunteers do not handle these kinds of animals. Instead, volunteers first sign in to get keys to different parts of the animal shelter, such as locks to the cat and dog rooms, and the play room. After signing in as a volunteer, they get the option to play with cats or dogs.

In the cat room, there are cats of all different “levels” assigned depending on their friendliness and calmness. Volunteers are provided with toys, feathers, and snacks. You can also bring the cats out of their individual cages to play within a larger room. While some of the cats like to just sit in people’s laps, others like to be active, playing with toys such as feathers and balls. Besides the cats, there are also dogs of a variety of sizes. Volunteers can either visit dogs that are isolated to their kennels after surgery or walk the dogs that need to go to the bathroom and/or need the exercise. Also, to make the dogs more adoptable, volunteers can train them to be housetrained or even to perform commands such as sit, stay, and lay down.

Everything the volunteers are able to do at the shelter assist the animals in getting a better life after leaving the shelter and hopefully being adopted to safe and happy homes. As volunteers, we’re able to have a positive impact on the animals’ lives, not to mention how fun it is to play with these cute animals!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THE SUMMER SINGLE SERVICE!

-come help run the book fair and various activities for kids -donate old children books to Jasmine & come to her workdays to help paint backdrops and more !

Got junk?

Wanna help raise money for charit y?

DISTRICT INTIATIVES

Contact Kristy Kim to donate items for our upcoming online garage sale

FUNDRAISING SERVICE THE ELIMINATE PROJECT: to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus, a deadly disease that steals the lives of nearly 60,000 innocent babies and a significant number of women each year KIWANIS FAMILY HOUSE: to provide temporary housing and support to families of seriously ill or injured children and adults being treated at University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento PEDIATRIC TRAUMA PROGRAM: to develop local projects, which will reduce the number of children in our district who are killed or injured by trauma

LEAPING TOWARDS LITERACY: to promote literacy and improve literacy rates Every year, thte district board selects an relavent social issue to unite clubs across the 3 states to work towards a common cause.

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LEADERSHIP Golden Gate Officer Training Conference

By Mike Zhou, Subregion B Trustee

The Golden Gate officer training conference was held on June 28 Saturday at UC Berkeley. Created to help educate Golden Gate Guardians about Circle K International and leadership development, the event was organized by our Lieutenant Governor, Angela Apinyavat, and the divisional board.

Some of the workshops that were hosted included: CKI 101, How to talk to the Kiwanis Family, the DSI workshop, Transfer Panels, and How to be a better A-Board member.

The turnout for the event was good as there were attendees not only from our divisional schools, UCB, CSUEB, SFSU, LMC, DVC, but other Circle K’ers from around the district from UCLA, SDSU, De Anza, and UCI. In addition to the workshops, the OTC also incorporated

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a service project, Joe Lee Swag, and the June Divisional Council Meeting (DCM). At the service project, attendees helped create bookmarks for kids to promote literacy, our District Service Initiative (DSI): A Leap Towards Literacy.

There were many attendees and I thought hosting the service project was a great opportunity to encourage and promote our DSI. After the service project, our very own UC Berkeley Circle K Kiwanis advisor and past Circle K’er, Joe Lee, hosted a presentation on resume building and interviewing. Being an interviewer himself, he shared some great tips on how we can make our resumes stand out and how to present ourselves in interview situations. After Joe Lee’s swag presentation, we moved onto the June DCM, during which we got to hear about what each school in the division was doing. Overall, the event included a lot of bonding, learning and swag.

Around sunny cal-nev-ha

The district Service Committee and Kiwanis Family Committee have been planning their district-wide respective events: District Summer Service Social (DSSS) and Key to College.

Shoutout to David Phan for being

chosen as one of the workshop hosts at the district Key to College!

UCB is also represented by Bryan Wu & Edison Xu on the Service Committee and Erinn Wong & Neiron Penalba on the K-Fam Committee!

International Congratulations to these individuals who are not only representing our school, but our district, CalNev-Ha, on the international level in their committees and task forces!

Service Committee Chair: Mike Zhou Six Cents Initiative Ambassador: Sean Yoo

Kiwanis Family Relations Committee Kiwanis Ambassador: Erinn Wong

Translating Documents Task Force Liane Kuo

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what is a subregion?!

As an international collegiate organization, Circle K International has over 12,600 members in 17 nations. UCBCKI is part of the Golden Gate division, which is part of the Cal-Nev-Ha district, which is part of Subregion B.Subregion B also consists of the Southwest and Rocky Mountain districts.

TRUSTEE: MIKE ZHOU

Goals 1. Bridge the gap between the member and the international level

2. Improve interdistrict relations & maintain intradistrict relations 3. Make myself available as a resource for all of Circle K to use 4. Create a Fall Subregion B event 5. Work closely with District Governors & the rest of each District Board to ensure they have everything they need

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school v division v district v subregion

FELLOWSHIP golden gate divisional retreat

By Jonathan Wong, Outstanding General Member

Go go Golden Gate, number one in the state!

On July 12-13, Golden Gate Guardians from all five schools gathered at Divisional Executive Assistant Jerry Bao’s house for the member retreat. I met up with Bryan Wu and we drove over to the Bao residence in Concord.

It was a fun car ride with interesting talks and great music. When we arrived, everyone had already settled in and were sitting in a circle and playing a card game that, to this date, I STILL don’t know the name of. After staring at everyone for around fifteen minutes, Liane Kuo ended up winning (?).

The retreat officially started when we made our mailboxes of brown paper bags, which we would later fill up with notes to one another throughout the day. For the first activity, we were split into two groups. Each group was given puzzle pieces, but my group soon realized we didn’t have all the pieces

to finish the puzzle. We turned to a nearby group and, upon putting our puzzles together, realized that the other group had all the other pieces we needed.

In the next activity, everyone was split into four groups, given 100 plastic straws, five rubber bands, and two feet of tape with the mission of building the tallest structure possible in fifteen minutes. In the beginning, Mike Zhou had a great plan and the entire group displayed great teamwork, but in the end, we couldn’t get our tower to stand up at all.

For the third activity, we were all taken outside to stand in a circle. One person was given a tennis ball, would say someone’s name and throw the tennis ball, and then the process would continue until everyone would throw the ball to someone else. We spent the next half hour throwing the balls to each other and learning everybody’s

names.

After a dinner of hotdogs and hamburgers cooked on the grill by Jerry, we performed skits we had prepared earlier. Each skit had a theme related to the tenants of service, leadership, and fellowship. From the all boy group that had to act out relationships in Circle K, to impersonating Bertha Te’s speaking and mannerisms, to Diyar Aniwar “pretending” to be awkward, the skits made my evening.

To end the night, we all went to the living room and played a version of “Cross the Line,” during which you would step forward if you agreed with the statement said. Immediately after, we all sat in a circle, wrote our deepest fears on a piece of paper, held hands, closed our eyes, and had them read out loud. From the good food to seeing where Jerry grew up, retreat was a great experience with fellow Guardians and I’m glad I went!

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But first, let me take a selfie..

Alan Perez, Bertha Te, Kevin Chen, Leon Liang, Mimi Ton, Thomas Miao (L to R) 06.15.14 Located next to Rockridge BART and accessible by 51B, Smitten Ice Cream offers fresh ice cream made in front of you using liquid nitrogen! Back in early June, Spirit&Social chair Leon led a mini ice cream social to try this super cool hipster place out.

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K-er! Thomas Miao manned the camera and let other members use the DSLR as well to capture the lovely day.

On a sunshine-happy Saturday, July 5th, Spirit & Social Chair Leon Liang gathered everyone at Codornices Park Philip Nguyen was head grill-master for the day, with Vivfor an Independence Day celebration picnic! An annu- ian Nguyen at his side, flipping and serving burgers and al tradition, this picnic is a summer sensation that brings hotdogs through the early afternoon. Crispy buns, sizzling together friends from UC Berkeley and other schools; this onions, and good ol’ romaine lettuce perfectly completed time, our buddies from UC Davis, SFSU, and University of the meal— and Edison Xu’s favorite Sugar Ray’s Barbecue Pacific joined us for some fun in the sun. Thanks for visit- Sauce too, of course. Everyone gathered, hungry after a ing and bonding with us, we love us some interclubbing! ;) couple hours of playtime, and devoured dozens of sausages and patties until they could not eat any more. There were After nestling into a cozy grill and a few picnic tables by plenty of chips and soda to go around too; what a classic the picturesque creek, people split up for various activ- American bbq to commemorate the founding of our nation. ities! Some headed to the basketball court to get their The food was a perfect way to settle down, then everybody hoop on, while others, like Kevin Su and Catherine Ho, got right back up to enjoy the bright day, soaking up the climbed trees and took thrilling pictures while plank- sun. A big “We Are Proud of You!” for Leon and the gang ing on them. It was truly a sight to behold. The creek for organizing and holding such a fantastic day in the park! was an ideal backdrop for cute friend photos as well!

By Tina You, MD&E Chair

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fourth of july bbq

brain / body / belly

beyond RAMEN 1. brain (life hacks) 2. body (field day on memorial glade) 3. belly (spring rolls) 4. brain (spelling bee) 5. body (workout video & bboying) 6. belly (mac & cheese) 7. brain (jeopardy) 8. brain + body (games & bring-yourown-dinner)

Thank you for coming!

Instant ramen – a college student’s go-to meal, right? Not with UC Berkeley Circle K! This summer, we had a twist on our general meetings to follow a weekly rotation of themes: brain, belly, and body.

Every Wednesday, we met at 7PM in front of Dwinelle to have a short check-in meeting on our events of the week.

Then, we would move on to the relevant theme of the week.

Some especially memorable meetings were the spelling bee, which made me grateful for computer automatic spell check, and our workout night, during which David Phan gave bboying workshops. The ‘Beyond Ramen’ series was an interesting twist to summer meetings that got me doing things I usually wouldn’t with the people I enjoy spending time with the most, Circle K!

By Heyun Jeong, Publications Editor

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K-FAMILY Congratulations!

On July 4th, our Golden Gate Regional Advisor, Phuoc Khong, got married!

Several Circle K members were present as guests and volunteers to help out during the ceremony and reception.

SPOTLIGHT KIWIN’S: Jade Division Back in early June, several UC Berkeley Circle K-ers visited the Jade Division Officer Training Conference (OTC) to show support for our Kiwanis Family and talk about Circle K. The next day, two Jade KIWIN’S members visited us at our Golden Gate Divisional OTC at UC Berkeley.

KIWIN’S is another high school service organization part of the Kiwanis Family. It was started as a high school service organization for girls back when Key Club was exclusively for boys. Today, KIWIN’S operates under the umbrella of Key Club and exists exlusively in the California-Nevada-Hawaii district.

The divisions are named after gems—Crystal, Diamond, Emerald, Goldstone, Jade, Jet, Ruby, Sapphire, and Turquoise. The Jade Division is made up of Oakland High School, Richmond High School, and Hercules High School.

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Summer happenings How did you spend your summer?

Vet-certified to perform multiple partial ovariectomies in Xenopus, Sarah Phan has been in Berkeley woring at a lab.

While back at home in SoCal, Neiron Penalba visited the anime expo in July where he saw different cosplayers.

crossword puzzle Across 1. Edison’s favorite kind of sauce 5. Alameda Point is also known as Seaplane ________ 6. our LTG’s last name 8. where you can see cute dogs and cats 11. ice cream social store 13. money raised from grad photos 14. the A in AVP 15. brain, body, _ _ _ _ _ _ beyond ramen

Cherie Leung has visited the happiest place on earth 3 times this whole summer - once in Hong Kong and twice in SoCal. courtesy of Claire Lee

Down 2. park where July 4th BBQ was held 3. service, leadership, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4. A Leap Towards _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7. donate to this 9. Mike Zhou is the trustee for this 10. where SF pride volunteers ate for lunch 12. first name of Kiwanian that recently got married

Contact Heyun with the answers for a special prize!

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Contact Us

Bertha Te president cki-president@lists.berkeley.edu Philip Nguyen admin vice president cki-adminvp@lists.berkeley.edu Edison Xu service vice president cki-service_VP@lists.berkeley.edu Liane Kuo treasurer cki-treasurer@lists.berkeley.edu Jenny Voong secretary cki-secretary-@lists.berkeley.edu Kristy Kim fundraising cki-fundraising@lists.berkeley.edu Thomas Miao historian cki-historian@lists.berkeley.edu Vivian Nguyen kiwanis family cki-k_family@lists.berkeley.edu Tina You md&e cki-membership@lists.berkeley.edu Wendy Huynh mrp cki-mrp_chair@lists.berkeley.edu Cherie Leung projects cki-projectcoord@lists.berkeley.edu Stanley Han public relations cki-publicrelations@lists.berkeley.edu Heyun Jeong publications cki-publications@lists.berkeley.edu Jasmine Park single service cki-singleservice@lists.berkeley.edu Leon Liang spirit & social cki-social@lists.berkeley.edu Diyar Aniwar technology cki-webmaster@lists.berkeley.edu

Thank you...

ARTICLE WRITERS: Tina You, Jonathan Wong, Mimi Ton, Jasmine Park, Claire Lee, and Mike Zhou! They were all so well written and thanks for dealing with my nagging!

PHOTOGRAPHERS: Donald Franks, Claire Lee, Thomas Miao, Diyar Aniwar, and more! Whether you used your phone or a fancy schmancy DSLR, I reallyyyy appreciate it!

ADVICE/CONSULTING: shoutout to everyone who I shoved random pages in front of their faces to ask for feedback in the past few weeks!

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