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Asian / Asian
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Each year [AA]2 and AA E-Zine bring the Boards of many of the major Asian and Asian American clubs on campus together so that everyone can meet everyone else. This year it was also co-sponsored by AAJ, the Asian American Journal.
Last year
former Zine Editor-in-Chief Huy Huynh
co-chaired with CASB President Derrick Tan a
new alliance, ASC, the Asian Students Coalition,
that arose from the concepts of the Social -
that the Asian and Asian American clubs
program and work together - and they did a
full week of joint events for the Lunar New
Year.
It is also vital for
when the need arises to be unified. A few
years ago USG wanted to put all campus Asian
interest programming funds into one club to
distribute on an event by event basis until
the clubs rose up in protest and the plan
was stopped. And maybe if we were unified
the fourth floor of the Wang Center
Celebrating Asian and Asian
American Cultures would not now be under
renovation to become Alumni Association
offices.
This year the Social was held
earlier than usual so that ASC could use it
as a springboard to have the clubs unite to
do more combined activities earlier than
they had last year. The MC's for the evening
were Jack Xiang from the Zine, Jon Hu from
AAJ and ASA, and CJ Cancino from PUSO.
After everyone ate members of each
organization were seated at different tables
for two related ice breakers. Everyone at
each table had to remember everyone else's
name and what club they were from. Then the
MC's went to each table and randomly asked a
person what another person's name was. Then
one person from each table had to say the
names and clubs of every other person at the
table. Since some tables had 6 and some 10
it was a little unfair but no one complained
and two winners left with prizes.
Then each club got up and introduced
themselves and their Cabinets to everyone
and talked about their plans for the
upcoming semester. For ASA the fall is their
big event, Asian Night, while all the other
major clubs hold their main cultural show in the
spring - China Night, Korean Night, PUSOFest,
and Sholay. KSA just had its BBQ and its
next big event is a
semi-formal. PUSO was having its open mic
night that week and will have Halo Halloween
at the end of the month as well as other
activities. SASA, which holds two big events
in the spring, a fashion show as well as its
cultural show, is also doing a Halloween
costume event. CASB just had its Mah Jong
Tournament and will have a Cultural Carnival
at the end of the month and a Poker Night in
November. China Blue, a radio show on WUSB
90.1FM is media like the Zine and AAJ and
does not have lots of events. Its two annual
ones are its recent Mid-Autumn Fest and in
the spring its Lunar New Year Fest.
All events will
be posted on the Zine calendar.
http://www.aasquared.org/calendar/calendar.pl
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