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2006 - 2007 Minutes
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| 4/4/07 Meeting |
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1.) GB - Our next GB is scheduled for next week, on
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 at 8 pm. Wendy and Regina have kindly
volunteering to pick up desserts from East Side Marketplace, Yay!
We'll be tableslipping from Monday to Wednesday.
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| 3/21/07 Meeting |
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1.) We sold 15 tickets at night market to make a total of $14.50. Yay for jello and games!
2.) For the Jim Kim lecture, we have currently raised
about $600 ($250 from the Dean of the College, $250 from the Office of
Institutional Diversity, and $100 from Hanuri). Professor Smith has
said that he can introduce Jim Kim if the lecture occurs after 7:30
pm. For groups that express interest in helping but don't have any
money, we'll ask them to help with tableslipping and putting up
posters. Also, it would be great if the other groups could help print
tableslips and posters, since we have run out of funds for that.
Please follow up on your respective departments when you come back from
break.
3.) Our next general body meeting is set for April 9th
at 7 pm. We have yet to book a room, but hopefully we can book the TWC
or Arnold Lounge. We will table slip from Friday to that Monday.
We'll have cookies and drinks at the GB. Wendy and Regina have kindly
offered to pick these up from East Side Marketplace.
4.) Budget--The Lecture with Jhumpa Lahiri will
cost around $15,000, plus first class accomdations and airfare! We'll
put her in the budget for now, and ask other groups for help (maybe
they could put her in their budgets for next year too?) Please try to
think of some interesting people that you would like to bring as Spring
lecturers/speakers/etc.
5.) Katharine will look in the idea of AASA tee-shirts.
6.) Please sign up for Relay for Life! This will be a really fun AASA bonding event!
7.) Elections will take place the Wednesday after Spring
break, (April 4th). Please email Yang and Jane if that time is not
good for you, and we'll try to reschedule. We really want EVERYONE to
be present at elections. Email Jane and Yang with your top choices for
positions. The roll-over should begin mid-April, with a transition
period.
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| 3/14/07 Meeting |
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1.) Jim Kim - Hanuri wants to donate money. Yay! Please try to send out your letters by the end of this week! Also, it seems that there might be great interest in this lecture (from development studies students, community health, med students, etc), so we are trying see if we can book Saloman 101. We currently have Saloman 001 booked. 2.) Nightmarket - the jellys sink. Sadly. However, we can still play a very challenging chopstick game with them. The water and chopsticks make the jellys reallllly slippery and hard to grasp. The plan is to have people try to pick up the jellys and then give them as many jellys as they pick up for the prize. Please sign up for a shift if you haven't already! Yay for Terrence and Eric! They were be representing AASA at some sort of game involving food... 3.) April GB - We are probably going to do some sort of fireside chat with professor thing. Terrence will email Professor Kim, and hopefully we can get him to come to lead a discussionon Asian masculinity. 4.) Keep in mind that elections will be held after Spring break. Yang and Jane are currently trying to formalize process. Also, the budget for next year is due this Friday. 5.) Relay for Life - Please sign up! We need at least 8 people to have a team! |
| 10/30/06 Meeting |
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1. EACS is set for Friday,
Novermber 10th from 7 to 9 pm in Andrew's Dining Hall. Tickets are $8
at the PO, $10 at the door, and $5 for performers.
2. Asian Street Bazaar is
being held this Saturday. We decided not to do food, but to have the
Chopstick game. Prizes and candy will be purchases by Hee Kyung. We
will probably have 1 thirty second game per ticket. I will send out
another email to sign up for times to work that night.
3. The Film screening is set for Friday November 17th. Hopefully AASA can help tableslip.
4. Chang Rae Lee is
coming! Yay! He will be giving a talk on November 13th, and we have
enough money left over to take him out to dinner that day. Jane is
checking out where we go to Phonatic or Kabob n' Curry. Please reply
to her email by Friday responding to if you can be at the dinner. For
publicity, we should have 5 days of tableslipping.
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| 10/17/06 Meeting |
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I. Film screening for AAHM (Terrence) - “The Miseducation of Suzie Wong,” a collection of seven short films to be screened on the Friday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. in Starr Auditorium - Terrence and Regina are seeking supplemental funding ($208) from UFB; if need be we can allocate funds from Plant Ops ($50) to this project - We already have co-sponsorship from BFS, CSA and KASA (although this might not be monetary) II. GB (Katharine, Wendy and Janine) - GB topic: Asian Americans are victims of hate crimes too; next Monday in lieu of our e-board meeting from 8:30-9:30 p.m. at Wilson 301 o Katharine, Wendy and Janine will be meeting some time this week to hash out the details of this event - Publicity o Tableslips will say “Asian Americans are victims of hate crimes too” o Siqing will print the tableslips and posters at the SAO; they will be available by Thursday at the TWC for all those who are scheduled to tableslip o Lily will email the listserv on Saturday or Sunday to inform them about this event - Refreshments o Katharine and Wendy are in charge of buying cookies and hot chocolate ($15 from Regina) III. AAHM Bazaar (Nov. 4) - We’ve decided on a game…but we have yet to decide what that game will be IV. BASIC - We have $160 reserved for this event - Siqing will be sending out an email to see who is interested in going; people will be reimbursed later V. EACS - Julia is going to be AASA’s liaison for EACS - Apparently AASA is on the performance committee??? What does that entail? VI. Chang Rae Lee updates - Lecture Board meeting is tomorrow - A4 is likely to give us $200 VII. Visions
- They’ve requested money for AASA but it seems like we’re going to end up using all of the funds allocated to us by UFB this year |
| 10/2/2006 Meeting |
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1. We've raise about
$2,100 for Chang Rae Lee, yay! And the
breakdown goes like this: $1,00 from Institutional diversity, $500 from
the wonderful AASA, $100 each from the Departments of American Civilization,
English, Comparative Literature, Ethnic Studies, and Urban Studies, and $100
from the Wayland Collegium . We have yet to hear from the Dean of the
Collge, the Office of Student Life, and the Lecture Board. Hye Kyung and
Jane will present on October 11th to Lecture Board (Good Luck!)
2. Minsuk has neard from Sam Yoon's secretary that
he is interested in coming to Brown, but no more details after that. Even
with Wendy's valient efforts, Kenji Yoshino is still MIA. Hopefully, we
will hear good news from him soon.
3. Mentorship
Dinner will be held on this Thursday, October 5th at 6 pm in the Ratty.
Be there.
4. The next
GB is set for October 23rd, from
8:30 to 9:30 pm. We still have to talk with Janine for
more info on this.
5. No official meeting next week (I'll miss you
all!)
6. Street bazaar is tentatively set for November
4th, but we still haven't ironed out any definate plans for food or game.
7. VISIONS--if you want to submit written
pieces, please do so by October
10th, and art pieces by October
16th.
8. BASIC: This year, it'll be held on
Saturday October 21st at Wellesley
College in Massachusetts (my lovely home state). AASA can reimburse about
8 people for full fare, and if more people want to go, AASA can reimburse
for a portion of the registration fee. There is also money for travel
expenses, so if we get enough interest, maybe we could get a bus or
something? http://bostonbasic.org/ It's $10
until October 8th at 12 am.
9. We need to work on the mission statement.
Parts of it don't seem so relevant, and could be revised.
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| 9/25/2006 Meeting |
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1. We have raised $700
for Chang Rae Lee's honorarium. Yay! Still, if this doesn't work
out, our back-up speakers will be: Sam
Yoon and/or Kenji
Yoshino.
2. We may co-sponsor a film festival for
AAHM. We voted for 1 film, and the e-board had the most interest in the
"Real Asian-Americans" politically
themed short program. There may be another film or short program included,
depending on how much money can be amassed.
3. Right to
Vote: Article 2 currently prevents convicted felons from
voting, even if they are out on parole, which disproportionately affects
minority men. Article 2 is coming up for a referedum on November 7th, and
AASA has decided to provide endorsement. Janine will send an email to the
GB addressing the issue of canvassing.
4. The next GB is to focue on the history of hate
crimes, etc. Currently, we are hoping for the first part to be an info
session, and the second part will be a workshop. Janine will contact Jane
Wong for more information. The next GB is currently scheduled
for Monday, October 23rd from 8 to
9.
5. Mentoring
dinner is set for next week, on Thursday October 5th, at 6 pm.
Locational logistics have yet to be finalized.
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| 9/18/2006 Meeting |
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Keynote speaker for
AAHM
- Currently considering bringing Korean American novelist Chang Rae Lee
($7,500 honorarium)
- Possible targets for
fundraising are KASA, lecture board, comp lit dept, ethnic studies dept, urban
studies dept, poli sci dept, american civ dept, office of student life, office
of institutional diversity, and the Wayland Collegium of liberal learning
- Other possibilites for the
keynote speaker are Sam Yoon, Harold Koh, Glen who helps illegal immigrants in
Chinatown (Terrance is unsure of his last name), and the author of Covering,
a book on new discrimination politics.
- Any other suggestions?
PAC leadership
retreat
- Sept 30th, 9 am to 8 pm. Yang, Jess,
and Janine will be attending. A 4th person might be allowed to go,
depending on how many people other groups send to the retreat.
Political
Activism
- Hope to
have a more political GB next time.
- Possible issues to
discuss: 1) police brutality, racial profiling, historical elements of
this, hate crimes and the hate crime policy at Brown, 2) the
right to vote, 3) immigration [educating immigrants on how to
find/keep jobs, housing, etc.]
BASIC
- Boston
Asian Students Intercollegiate Conference 2006 will be held on October 21st at
Wellesley
- Theme is "Caution: Asian
Pacific Americans in Progress"
- There will be talks,
workshops, etc.
- We can cover the registration
fees for 8 people fully, or more people partially. The fee is $14 as of
now until October 15th.
Community
Service
- SDC (Socioeconomic Development Center for
Southeast Asians) deals with many problems, including young people getting
assimilated by pop culture and resorting to gang violence. Deportation is
also a major issue, breaking up families in the process.
- Possible idea is to bring the
kids to Brown campus for mentoring (kids can see the Brown campus, see the
possibilities of their own future, also more convienent for Brown
students, hopefully leading to more Brown students being willing to
mentor)
Mentorship
- Division into 4
groups: Pan-Asian outreach, Community Service, Political Activism, and Social
Events.
- Offers another level of
committment for AASA members (less than e-board, but more than average
member)
- Paroan sent out more info in
an email yesterday
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