2007 Fall

SNAP! Sharp New Alternative Perspective

Vol. 9 No. 1

Fall 2007

Published quarterly by the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, UC Santa Cruz

Asian American Writers Visit UCSC Campus UCSC Living Writers Reading Series brings in acclaimed writers for reading and Q&A session

By Theresa Chan The UCSC Living Writers Reading Series presents the Asian American Writers Series. This series was organized by Karen Tei Yamashita, author and Associate Professor of Literature/Creative Writing at UCSC. The target of the series is to “honor the writing of Asian American writers and give access to their work and professional presence to our students, faculty and local Santa Cruz community.”

The first event in the series took place on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 featuring writer Justin Chin. Chin read from his latest collection of poetry, Gutted, “a document of growing older - a massively moving work of grief, loss, comfort, illness, and resolve-imbued with Chin’s unique screwy perspective, ever-defective grace, and scabrous humor.” The second author featured Alvin Lu on Tuesday, October 16, 2007.

Lu discussed his debut novel, The Hell Screens, a chilling story following “a man whose search for accounts of ghosts and spirits, leading him through images from modern and colonial Taiwan - an island of restless spirits.” The last literary reading will feature Jeffery Paul Chan, author of Eat Everything Before You Die: A Chinaman in the Counterculture, “an ironic commentary on the identities the children of Chinese American immigrants concoct from their questionable histories, cultural practices, and survival strategies.” This event will be on

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at the Humanities Lecture Hall 206 from 6 pm to 7:30 pm.

The series thus far, has been fun, informative, humorous, intriguing. Both the Justin Chin and Alvin Lu readings were held at the Humanities Lecture Hall, nearly packed with creative writing and literature students, staff, faculty members, and other interested students.

Selected excerpts from each of their books followed with lively and stimulating question and answer sessions.

Despite reading from dramatic works, each of the authors had somehow made each event light-hearted, and entertaining. No question was denied and each was answered whole-heartedly from these strong Asian American authors.

The Living Writers Series has been quite a success and a great way to bring the community together. It has allowed the Asian American/Pacific Islander community to come together with students of the creative writing and literature departments to find their

Jeffery Paul Chan common interest of the appeal of talented authors who happen to of the Asian American/Pacific Islander community.

This series is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, Literature Department, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Institute for Humanities Research, and the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center. For more information and/or disability accommodation, please contact AA/PIRC at 459-5349.

In this Issue... > Faculty Spotlight - Karen Tei Yamashita pg. 2 > GenerAction Event pg. 8

> Staff Spotlight - Elaine Kihara pg. 5 > Meet the AA/PIRC Staff pgs. 6-7

Faculty Spotlight

Faculty Spotlight: Karen Tei Yamashita Karen Tei Yamashita shares her thoughts and experiences with Asian American Literature

By Theresa Chan

Karen Tei Yamashita is a thirdgeneration (San-sei) Japanese American and Associate Professor in Literature, at UC Santa Cruz. She has been at UCSC since 1997, and teaches classes such as Introductory to Creative Writing and Asian American Literature (the latter of which she is teaching this Fall quarter).

This quarter, Karen is the host of the Living Writers Series, a series of literary readings put on by the Literature Department and co-sponsored by the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center (AA/PIRC). For the series, she invited Asian American/Pacific Islander (AA/PI) authors such as Jeffery Chin (Gutted), Alvin Karen Tei Yamashita Lu (The Hells Screens), and Jeffery Paul PI population at Carlton College. While Chan (Eat Everything Before You Die). in college, Karen also took the opporShe incorporated these authors into tunity to study abroad at Waseda Uniher Asian American Literature Class. versity in Tokyo, Japan. She had been Karen was born in Oakland, CA researching her family’s history and was able to visit her ancestor’s hometown. where her father’s family is from and A child’s major can be moved to Los Angeles. As a a touchy subject within child she enjoyed reading “I think that the AA/PI comand attended Japanese munity between school. She grew up the Asian American parents and their in a predominantly students who are [in the child(ren), but Japanese American Asian American literature Karen’s parents community and class], are more invested in supported her was exposed to diverse Asian cultures the literature because cultur- decision to maand backgrounds. ally they are open to it, but jor in Japanese and English litFor her colI think they are just as erature.

“My parlege education, Karen new to it as anyone ents were different, wished to leave Calithey weren’t going to fornia and decided to else is...” choose my major,” exattend Carlton College, a plains Karen, “I don’t know what small liberal arts college south of Minneapolis, Minnesota. “My moth- my mother would say now, because it er had lived there during the War,” turned out alright, but I think they suptells Yamashita, “...so Minnesota and ported my decisions about writing even Carlton College had a draw for me though they were concerned with how because of some personal reasons.” I was going to support myself.” AfShe started out as a Philosophy ter college, she returned to California major, but later ended up graduating in a and studied Portuguese intensively at special major: English and Japanese Lit- UC Santa Barbara, later traveling to erature. Karen was also apart of Carlton Brazil to study the Japanese diaspora College’s first AA/PI organizations that to Brazil. Her travels and research helped bring together the very low AA/ are the themes of her first few books.

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Creative writing is something Karen happened into by accident, but even as a child, she had a passion for writing. Her early writings as a youth would appear in her church and community newsletters and later in her college’s newspaper. Interestingly, Karen states that her books are used as readings for a diverse range of areas such as geography, Asian American Studies, urban planning, travel, and environmental studies at various institutions or for a reader’s personal interests. Even though her works are considered for many areas of study, her strongest support and positive feedback has come from the AA/PI community.

Asian American/Pacific Islanders are Karen’s main audience when writing; the diversity of her audience may change from novel to novel, but her target audience is always the AA/PI community.

Karen elaborated on the life of writer, “Well if you know anything about writers, they spend a lot of time alone, talking to themselves, so families have to put up with that; and doing a lot of research.”

Personally, she doesn’t know if she has had any influence on the AA/PI community, but if you were to ask AA/PIs familiar with Karen Yamashita’s work, it is usually a very positive response. Hopefully AA/PIs will come forth and let her know how her works have affected them.

Prior to coming to UC Santa Cruz, Yamashita worked in the engineering department for the Los Angeles PBS network, KCET, and researched in Japan. When Yamashita first came to UCSC in 1997, she had been offered a lectureship; she taught Asian American Literature and a creative writing class. A year later, there was an opening here for a creative writing teacher in fiction, where she applied, got the job, and has been here ever since. Since coming to Santa Cruz, she has always tried to involve herself with the AA/PI community through AA/PI literature and by attending events and lectures.

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News and Events

Building a Culture of Collaboration Resource Centers and allies create a space for dialogue through Resource Cluster Fair

By Jonathan Hon

On October 17, 2007, resource centers on campus came together in the event, “Building a Culture of Collaboration Resource Center Cluster Fair,” to let the campus know of the continuous collaborative efforts that take place behind the scenes of UCSC. Many people see each resource center as an individual unit that only shares a space on the third floor of the Bay Tree Building. However, the Asian American/ Pacific Islander Resource Center (AA/ PIRC) works with the several other resource centers on campus, such as the African American Resource and Cultural Center (AARCC); American Indian Resource Center (AIRC), Cultural Arts and Diversity Center, El Centro: Chicano Latino Resource Center, the Lionel Cantú Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Intersex Resource Center (GLBTI), and the Women’s Center to create various events on campus.

During the event, the program included keynote speaker Dr. Paul Ortiz, Associate Professor in Community Studies, performances by the UCSC

Rainbow Theatre, delicious finger foods, and workshops which all helped create a sense of community awareness.

The event was a great way to connect with people and the resources on campus. It allowed students to learn about different ways to get involved on campus and the opportunities that are available in the form of internships and leadership experiences. During the various workshops, thoughtful discussions

Student Volunteers and Resource Center Staff after successful collaboration fair.

Yamashita Faculty Spotlight pg 2 continued... years, she was able to talk about how UCSC’s AA/PI community has developed, advanced, and changed over the years and gave her opinions about the diversity of our campus and her own classes.

“Since UCSC is not a university with a medical school or technical schools, it is not as big of a draw for as many AA/PI students.” When discussing her Asian American Literature class she states that [students are] predominantly non-AA/ PI but feels that the few AA/PI students she has are affected more so, both culturally and mentally. “I think that the Asian American students who are there, are more invested in the literature because culturally they are open to it,” states Yamashita, “but I think they are just as new to it as anyone else is. I also think that there is recognition to history, Fall 2007

were made about the underrepresented populations on campus and how the different groups can come together in the larger community to support and strengthen one another. Despite the rainy weather, the first Resource Center Cluster Fair let the UCSC community know that a lot of collaboration occurs “behind-the-scenes,” but more importantly, there are resources available to every student on campus.

of family history, cultural history, and psychological or maybe just dialogue.

Suddenly, they are in the literature.”

When asked if she had any advice for other AA/PI writers and those just starting out, she exclaimed, “Don’t be scared, not at all, that’s ridiculous!” For AA/PI students taking creative writing or AA/PI persons who struggle with expressing themselves through their writing, this should be taken to heart. In attaining her success, she states that her greatest help for becoming a successful writer is the fact that she is Asian American and has been able to write during the Asian American movement, which inspired many publishers to want to publish Asian American literature. She considers herself very lucky and hopes her support will con-

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tinue in her future writings and life.

For the future, Karen Yamashita plans to continue teaching creative writing classes at UCSC and will keep supporting the AA/PI staff/faculty and students; helping the community in the struggle to push for AA/PI and Ethnic Studies programs. Karen has recently turned in her fourth and latest novel into her publisher and excitedly states, “This is a big novel called The I-Hotel (International Hotel). It is about the residential hotel that existed in San Francisco’s Manilatown and housed many Filipino and Asian Americans; this novel will recant its history during the 1960s and 70s.” As of now, she is not sure when her new novel will be coming out; but keep an eye out for it when it hits the shelves.

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Alumni Spotlight

From the Mountains to the Hills Christy Trinh-Malarney Award recipient Tran Nguyen describes her Graduate Student experience

By Tran Nguyen

interning at the Asian American/Pa- in pursuing post graduate education. In cific Islander Resource Center (AA/ many AA/PI cultures, the topic of menPIRC), I was able to learn about issues tal health is very taboo, and one way to of diversity, community, and identity. address this issue is to have more AA/ Through my experiences, there has been PIs in the field encouraging families to an understanding that diversity is im- explore these issues. If people are able to portant, and it is essential that to share see more representation of their culture that knowledge with my colleagues. in the area of mental health, it may beIn the beginning it was confuscome more inviting and less ing as to why others did not foreign. Representation understand the connection also lessens the cul“Everyone between community and tural and language comes into a graduidentity development. barriers. This also ate program with a Community provides applies in helpspace where individu- wide range of knowledge ing more stuals can come together and experience, and that dents consider to learn, explore, and post graduthere is such a wealth of implement change. It ate education, knowledge to be shared if students can Tran Nguyen was baffling as to why with everyone.” others did not see this see people who, In June, I graduated from UC San- connection. But as time look like them, ta Cruz with a B.A. in Psychology. The went on, it became apparsucceed at things experience during my undergraduate ent that everyone comes into which seem unattainyears were very rich, making it difficult a graduate program with a wide range able are suddenly more tangible. to move out of the Santa Cruz Moun- of knowledge and experience, and that Graduate school is different than tains. After calling this school and this there is such a wealth of knowledge to the undergraduate education in that it town as my home for four years, it was be shared with everyone. A lot of my is much more intense and fast paced. difficult to say goodbye to the friends, knowledge comes from AA/PIRC, The studies are much more interesting experiences, and the memories. For- which gave me the opportunity to be a because in School Counseling, everytunately I found that although I was part of a community, and taught me how thing can be applied. Theories such as leaving Santa Cruz, I could to articulate myself. These and Psychoanalysis and Gestalt can now be still take the friendships, many other skills have made applied and used with individuals. Be“If students experiences, and memtransitioning into graduate fore, reading and studying about theoories and incorporate school much smoother. rists such as Freud and Adler were incan see people them into my future.

The question of teresting, but seeing the theories used in who, look like them, And with that, three “Why do you want actual counseling makes it much more succeed things which to be a counselor?” is useful. Graduate school is really about months later, I startseem unattainable ed my graduate prooften times asked by taking the knowledge that has been atgram at California parents, relatives, and tained from your undergraduate eduare suddenly more State University East even strangers many cation and making it more applicable. tangible.”

Bay, a school way up in times. The generic answer Following the completion of the the Hayward Hills. For the is usually: the role of a school graduate program, I plan on working next two years I will be pursucounselor is to help all students as a school counselor in a setting where ing a Masters in School Counseling. achieve academic excellence. In addi- there will hopefully be a large population I have found that the knowledge tion to helping students reach academic of AA/PI students. My specific interests and skills that were learned during excellence, I personally want to encour- are in working with Vietnamese Amerimy undergrad at UCSC, could be ap- age AA/PI students to explore issues of can students in the areas of identity deplied to the graduate studies. Through mental health, and to support students velopment, and academic achievement.

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Staff Spotlight

Staff Spotlight: Elaine Kihara Elaine Kihara shares her thoughts on her motivations and goals in life

By Becky Van

Elaine Kihara is the Academic United Farm Workers, Anti-Racism Preceptor for Oakes College at UC coalitions, Central America solidarity Santa Cruz. She was born in Austin, work, and the Tom Hayden for Senate Texas before her family moved to Cali- campaign. She greatly enjoyed cross isfornia when she was one and a half sues and coalition work. “Being a student years old. When asked about her feel- of color was important to me politically ings about residing in California, Elaine in my political awareness,” shares Elaine. states that she cannot imagine living A significant person in Elaine’s life anywhere else since she has lived here is her husband, who is her best friend for almost all of her life. Starting from and a retired history professor who her college experience to the work that taught in UC Santa Cruz. Elaine conshe has done after graduation, Elaine siders her husband a very politically acearned her way into the position of tive person and Elaine hopes to become Academic Preceptor at Oakes College. more politically active after she retires.

Elaine graduated from UC Davis Elaine’s jobs after college graduwith a B.A. in International Agricul- ation smoothly led into each other. tural Development with an emphasis on Elaine worked in an English as a SecCommunity Development. Her original ond Language (ESL) Program at Davis intention was to pursue her interest in after her graduation. She worked with agriculture and later work abroad and advised students from all in an agriculture-related over the world with their job in Africa. Although VISA statuses. “Dealing “Being a Elaine did not end up with immigration can student of color working in Africa, she be so nerve-wracking, had the chance to stay was important to me confusing, scary. It’s in Guatemala for a few politically in my po- hard to get informamonths after graduattion you need,” notes litical awareness.” Elaine, ing from college. The “I would make International Agricultural sure that students mainDevelopment major allowed tain good status. It’s takher to branch off into three difing this confusing bureauferent directions: plant sciences, animal cracy and making it understandable.” sciences, or community development.

Since Elaine liked working in an “As I studied at Davis longer, I realized educational setting, she applied for a job that it was not what I wanted to do and as Provost Assistant here at UC Santa it was not an expertise I wanted to de- Cruz. After a couple of years, a UC velop,” explains Elaine. Feeling more of Santa Cruz Academic Preceptor took a connection toward the area of commu- a leave from the university, so Elaine nity development, she received a good stepped up to take the responsibility balance of the areas of humanities and of both jobs of Provost Assistant and social sciences. She loved how her major Academic Preceptor at the same time. was very interdisciplinary as it allowed The Academic Preceptor did not return her the opportunity to take courses in to the university, so Elaine was offered psychology, community studies, physics, to stay for that job. Elaine has been radical political economics, and literature. working at UC Santa Cruz since 1987.

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“one of the things that I can do is just try to break that down a bit and hopefully make it easier for students to get through and understand what they are supposed to do.” She feels happy to be able to talk to and help out so many people. When asked about how she feels to be working with students here on campus, Elaine shares, “You’re talking to all these people who are learning things and preparing themselves to learn. We have so many people at Oakes who are so committed to working in the community and doing really useful constructive work. That keeps us hopeful.” She feels that Oakes College is filled with many students with strong devotion and the capacity to grow to their greatest potentials.

Elaine is glad to be a part of the beautiful school of UC Santa Cruz. To explain her perception of UC Santa Cruz, she remarks, “Student organizations, resource centers, and SOAR (Student Organization and Advising Resources) really provide the potential for a really rich experience beyond the classroom. UC Santa Cruz really prides itself on encouraging students to do that.”

With a passion in helping students in finding direction in their college lives, Elaine concludes, “I love this job. It’s really what I feel I was meant to do.”

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AA/PI Resource Center Staff Biographies

For this edition of SNAP, we asked our staff: “If your life were a movie, what genre do you feel it would be?”

Nancy In Kyung Kim, a 1.9 generation Korean American who grew up in different parts of Los Angeles County, considers Claremont her hometown. She received her B.A. in American Studies from UCSC, and was affiliated with Merrill College. Before returning to UCSC to be the first Director of AA/ PIRC, Nancy received her M.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA, and taught Asian American Studies courses at CSU Northridge, UCLA, and Scripps College. She feels privileged to work with such committed students and colleagues in Santa Cruz. Nancy’s research interests include Asian American gender and sexuality, coalition building, social movements, and leadership and student development.

She lives in Watsonville with her husband and 3-year old son. If Nancy’s life was a movie, it would be a mockumentary.

Robert Imada is a fourth generation (yonsei) Japanese American who grew up in Sunnyvale, CA. He graduated from UCSC in 2002 with a B.A. in Psychology. As an undergraduate, Robert was active in various student organizations such as the Japanese-American Student Association, Queers of Color, and the GLBTI N e t w o r k .

Robert returned to UCSC to work in student affairs and feels privileged to serve the campus community through AA/PIRC. He hopes more campus community members will connect with AA/PIRC this year and utilize all the services and events it has to offer. Outside of UCSC, Robert is an active member of South Bay Queer and Asian, a social support group in San Jose for queer Asians and Pacific Islanders. If someone made a movie of Robert’s life, it would be a drama to encompass his passion for performance art and being a “born again health nut.”

Theresa Chan

Kia Vue

CUIP Intern

Kia Vue is a Junior, affiliated with Kresge College, double majoring in Sociology and Community Studies. She is this year’s Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program (CUIP) intern for AA/ PIRC. Before becoming a part of the AA/PIRC intern staff, Kia worked at EOP for nearly two years and is involved with student organizations such as APISA and the Hmong Student Association. Kia is Hmong American and comes from Fresno, CA. She is part of the 1.5 generation. This quarter Kia hopes to coordinate successful events for AA/PIRC as well as to continue growing as a strong AA/PI woman leader. She is honored to be this year’s CUIP intern for AA/PIRC and hopes to do great things with her internship. If a movie were made about Kia’s life, she feels the genre would be a drama because she feels everyone can use a little drama in their life to make it more interesting.

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Theresa Chan is a fourth year from Crown College majoring in Language Studies with an emphasis on Chinese. She is a fifth generation Chinese American on her father’s side and a fourth generation Chinese American on her mother’s side. Theresa is a core member of APISA and has worked closely with the Chinese Student Association for the past three years. She is also a third degree brown belt with the UCSC Shorinji Kempo Club. As an AA/PIRC intern, Theresa feels closer to the AA/PI community on campus and is informed about the issues and history of AA/PIs in the United States. Her hopes for this quarter are to have more students involved and informed with all the resources and events AA/PIRC have to offer. If Theresa’s life were a movie, she notes it would be boring-so she would want the genre to be an action-comedy.

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AA/PI Resource Center Staff Biographies

Jennie Takagawa

Jonathan Hon

Intern

Intern

Jennie Takagawa is a fourth year Psychology student from Cowell College. She is half Chinese and half Japanese American who was born and raised in the Bay Area.

She has been active in Sigma Omicron Pi, an Asian-American interest sorority for the past four years and is starting her first quarter as an intern with AA/PIRC. Jennie joined AA/PIRC not only to help the campus become more aware of the AA/PI community and events on campus, but also hopes to broaden her own leadership experiences. If Jennie’s life was a movie, she feels the genre would be a romantic comedy (with a little bit of drama) as she likes to spend her time with her boyfriend and closest friends.

Jonathan Hon is a sophomore affiliated with Merrill College majoring in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (MCD). He is a second generation Chinese American who was born and raised in San Francisco.

Here at UCSC, Jon has been involved with numerous student organizations such as CUSN, CSA, and AA/PIRC. This will be Jon’s third quarter at AA/PIRC. Jon hopes to travel to Hong Kong for EAP during his junior year, but in the mean time, he would like to pursue more leadership roles on campus. If Jon’s life was a movie, he feels the genre would be an action-comedy film as no matter how much he prepares for things, the unexpected always happens.

Becky Van

Carlo Wei Intern

Carlo Wei is a fourth year Legal Studies major affiliated with Crown College. He is a second generation Chinese American who was born and raised in San Francisco. Carlo has been actively involved in many student organizations such as CUSN and as a core member in CSA for the last two years. This Fall will be his first quarter as an AA/PIRC intern. He feels ready and enthusiastic about new challenges and opportunities ahead. This quarter he hopes to get out of his comfort zone and work with a variety of students and faculty. If Carlo’s life was a movie, he feels the genre would be a drama, as he and his family had been through so much struggle and tragedy that the only place to go was up.

Maria Chung

Intern

Becky Van is a junior with loyal affiliation to Oakes College majoring in Biology. She is a second generation Asian American born and raised in San Francisco.

Becky has been involved with student organizations as a core member in the Chinese Student Association and Vietnamese Student Association. She immediately knew she wanted to become an AA/PIRC intern after attending the AA/PIRC 2007 Cultural Showcase. This quarter, she hopes to increase her role in helping the AA/PI community here at UCSC. If Becky’s life was a movie, she believes the genre would be a comingof-age drama like The Lion King, encountering amusing friends and comical foes until finding her place in the world.

Renald Tamse Intern

Intern

Maria Chung is a fourth year student from College Eight.

She is a Sociology and Politics major who is particularly interested in Immigration Reform and issues concerning social justice. She was born and raised in San Francisco and is proud to say so. Although this is her first year interning for AA/PIRC, she has been previously involved as an intern with the SUA. Maria is especially interested in becoming more active in the UCSC community. If Maria’s life was a movie, she believes the genre would be a romantic comedy full of drama, action, and great humor. It’d be a little bit of everything to keep life exciting.

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Renald Tamse is a second year Health Sciences major affiliated with Merrill College. He is a second generation Filipino American who was born and raised in Fremont. This is Renald’s second quarter interning at AA/ PIRC but he has been actively involved with the UCSC Badminton team, becoming this year’s club president. This quarter, Renald hopes to encourage more students to be active in the AA/PI community and to present readers with an exciting SNAP! newsletter this year. If Renald’s life was a movie, he feels the genre would be a science fiction since his life portrays zombies, robots, and an office.

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Event

Empower and Move at GenerAction!

An upcoming student initiated course and event on effective stratagies for social change

By Shan Gupta and Tiffany Symmes We are the Generation of Action.

As Van Jones declared when speaking at UCSC last spring, “This generation is now capable of building movements that, in the past were impossible!” Today, students have the intelligence, freedom, idealism, and the numbers to make impacting change locally and across the globe. However, many students find themselves taking courses that just teach them facts about how unjust and environmentally destructive our world is without being able to develop their potential to be innovators and problem-solvers for change.

The Center for Transformative Action is responding to this need. On November 7th at the Kresge Town Hall from 7-10 pm, GenerAction will introduce students and the campus community to the most effective strategies for social change. It will also provide insight on what hundreds of students across the nation are learning by taking the “Transformative Leadership and Social Innovation” course, which is planned to be offered at UCSC Winter quarter thanks to Kresge College and Environmental Studies.

The Transformative Action Institute (TAI) was co-founded in 2005

by Scott Sherman and Randy Parraz.

In 2005, they started teaching the “Transformative Leadership and Social Innovation” course at UCLA, Berkeley, Irvine and Fullerton State.

“There is no such thing as a neutral educational process,” says Scott Sherman of the TAI, “either it is used to bring about conformity, integrating the younger generation within the present system, or it becomes the practice of freedom: the means by which men and women deal creatively and critically with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”

The course is about empowering students to take ownership of how and what they learn. “It’s all about what they want for their futures – their life goals and aspirations,” Sherman said.

At GenerAction, Dr. Craig Schindler, president of Project Victory and course instructor at UCSC, as well as Randy Parraz, co-founder of TAI, will be speaking on the potential for “Transformation and Realizing Student Power through Transformative Action.”

This event is expected to bring the campus together in a new way. GenerAction aims to empower students to be leaders, unify community through the soulempowering music of Sourgrass, and

Heritage Month Planning Committee Help to…

YEAR END CEREMONY Planning Committee

> Represent the diverse Asian American/ Pacific Islander community. > Combine our roots with our identities of today

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expand students’ horizons to the possibilities for transforming the world. GenerAction is sponsored by Kresge College, College Eight, Environmental Studies and Dharma Pad Housing Co-op.

For more information go to www.transformativeactioncenter.org.

For more information on the Transformative Leadership and Social Innovation course, please email transformativeaction@gmail.com.

Asian American/Pacific Islander

NEEDS YOU!

Get involved in > creating events > organizing events > publicizing > designing logos and themes

GenerAction Poster

Come help plan this annual event celebrating the achievements of AA/PI graduates!

Join a committee in entertainment, food, programming, publicity, emcee, and more!

If you have any ideas or want to join the planning committee, contact: Kia Vue at kvue@ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-5349.

Interested? Contact: Jon Hon Email: yearend.2008@gmail.com or call (831) 459-5349

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Events Calendar

October 9

Literary Reading: Justin Chin 6:00-7:30pm @ Humanities Lecture Hall

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Gearing Up! Grad Program Opportunities (All Day) 3:00-5:00pm, 7:00-8:00pm are AA/PIRC co-sponsored workshops @ Bay Tree Conference Room Muwekma Ohlone (Room C)

Reception 25 Community 5:30pm-7:30pm @ Bay Tree Conference

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Literary Reading: Alvin Lu 6:00-7:30pm @ Humanities Lecture Hall

Friday Gathering 26 QQPoC Noon-1:30pm @ ERCs Lounge

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Resource Center Cluster Faire - “Building a Culture of Collaboration” 11:00am-4:30pm @ Quarry Plaza/Bay Tree Conference Rooms/GSA Commons/ERCs

Reading: Jeffery Paul Chan 30 Literary 6:00-7:30pm @ Humanities Lecture Hall

AA/PI Leadership Mixer 5:30-7:30pm @ Ethnic Resource Centers Lounge

Room Cervantes/Velasquez (D)

November

of Color Conference 10- Student 9:00am-6:00pm @ Colleges Eight, Porter, 12 and Oakes

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QQPoC Friday Gathering Noon-1:30pm @ ERCs Lounge

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AA/PI Graduate Student Reception 1:00-2:00pm @ ERCs Lounge

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AA/PI Transfer and Re-Entry Student Reception 7:00-8:30pm @ ERCs Lounge

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bell hooks 5:00pm @ College 9/10 Multipurpose Room

December

The Big Break!

Celebrating Community Traditions 5:00-8:00pm @ Stevenson Events Center

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Welcome New Faculty and Staff!

PRANAV ANAND Assistant Professor Linguistics ANGELA ESVER Interim Operations Coordinator for Pajaro Valley Region Educational Partnership Center GEAR UP JESSICA ESVER Interim College Facilitator Educational Partnership Center GEAR UP JUNGMI KIM Lecturer Writing Department

PAUL KIM Counseling and Psychological Services Intern

NADAR POURMAND Assistant Professor Computer Engineering

SRI KURNIAWAN Assistant Professor Computer Engineering

CHRISTOPHER YANG Assistant College Programs Coordinator Kresge College

JUSTIN LI Counseling and Psychological Services Intern

ASSAF YASUR-LANDAU Assistant Professor History

YAT LI Assistant Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry MICHAEL LORILLA Director Gift Planning in University Relations

Map AA/PIRC Located on Third Floor of Bay Tree Building

YI ZUO Assistant Professor Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

SNAP! Staff Advisor Copy Editor Layout Editor Productions Contributors

Nancy I. Kim Renald Tamse Robert Imada Renald Tamse Theresa Chan Shan Gupta Jonathan Hon Tran Nguyen Tiffany Symmes Becky Van

visit www2.ucsc.edu/aapirc for questions and info, e-mail: aapirc@ucsc.edu

Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center University of California, Santa Cruz 339 Bay Tree Building 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Phone: (831) 459-5349 Fax: (831) 459-2469 www2.ucsc.edu/aapirc