ATTENTION SENIORS!

If you want to wear the flag of the Philippines proudly on your neck on graduation day, you can! We are ordering stoles in bulk and if you are interested please get your money to us by May 15, 2008. The cost of the stole is $25.00 which already includes tax and shipping.

You can give the money to either Kim Juachon, Empee Palo, or YenYen Cuison. You can also put the money in Empee’s box at e^2. For all money deposits, please put your money in an envelope with your name and how many stoles you are ordering. Also, you do not need to be participating in FSA Grad to get a stole, as long as you pay the $25.00 and arrange a time to pick it up from us, we can include you in the order. Again, please have the money in an envelope with your name to either Kim, Empee, YenYen, or in Empee’s box at e^2 by May 15, 2008.

If we don’t have your money by May 15, 2008 by 5pm, you will not be included in the order and you will have to order it yourself. Thank you very much!

A few important dates!
May 14, 2008 by 2:08pm–BIOs and headshots emailed to fsagrad08@gmail.com
(attached is the sample bio)

May 15, 2008 by 5pm–$25.00 due for stoles due to Kim, Empee, Yenyen, Empee’s box at e^2.

May 20, 2008 by 5pm–slideshow pictures due on CD to any FSA grad committee members or FSA office

To participate in AA/PI Year End Ceremony go to http://www2.ucsc.edu/aapirc/ and fill out all necessary paperwork
(they are accepting applications still)

Thank you very much!

Peaceee!

Kymberly Juachon, Empee Palo, YenYen Cuison aka KEYY!

HELLO FSA COMMUNITY,

If you are interested in running for an FSA Core position for 2008-2009:

COME TO THE FSA CORE Q&A MIXER
SUNDAY, MAY 4TH
CONFERENCE ROOM D CERVANTES VELASQUEZ
6PM-7PM (PLEASE ARRIVE ON TIME!)

Conference Room D is located at the top floor of the Career Center Building (next to the Bookstore of the Quarry Plaza), down the hall by the Ethnic Resource Center.

Here you will get to ask questions about FSA Core and the specific position(s) you are interested in. This is a great opportunity to find out what it’s like to be on FSA Core and what your desired position entails.

Please try to come prepared with questions you may already have. 

If you would like to contact the coordinators in advance, please go to the ”Contact Us” section. Thank you!

Pagkakaisa Dance Troupe is now taking nominations for next year’s coordinator.

In order to nominate a candidate YOU must be an active member within PDT meaning that you have performed with PDT in a PCC [ either this year or in the past].

The CANDIDATE that you nominate must be an active member of PDT and must have performed in PCC for at least one year.[ Either this year or in the past].

Please give us their full name and then we will go from there.

So here is the process..
- nominate the candidates
- candidates are notified
- candidates accept or decline
- election process begins.

We will be accepting nominations until FRIDAY, MAY 2ND, 2008 @ 11:00 AM, this is open to any FSA community member who has performed with pdt in at least one pcc!

Thank you,

PDT Cos

Any questions let us know.
Email: pdt.fsa@gmail.com
–
Marienne Cuison & Eugene Vigo
Pagkakaisa Dance Troupe (PDT) Coordinators

Dear e2 Community Members,
It is with much excitement that we announce our 2008-2009 Student Staff positions for the engaging education center! e2 is a Student Initiated Outreach and Retention Center that focuses on increasing the diversity of historically underrepresented and under resourced students within higher education while promoting a critical student politic through engaged dialogue on a wide spectrum of social justice issues.

All positions available for academic year 2008-2009! The positions we are currently hiring for are:

(2) Co-Chair positions;
(2) Program Coordinator;
(2) e2 Class Coordinators;
(1) Webmaster, and
(1) Office Manager

Applicants should submit the following items:
1. Resume and Cover Letter (example at: http://www2.ucsc.edu/careers/student/resumecoverltr.html)
2. e2 Application (attached NOW!)
3. One Letter of Recommendation
4. Current Schedule (eg. classes, meetings, etc.)

Applications due Monday, May 12, 2008 5 p.m. in the e2 office!
(e2 will not accept any late applications)

NOTE: Interviews will be held from May 12th-30th.
For more information please visit our website at www.engagingeducation.org

Qualifications for staff positions include:
-Have time management skills;
-Work independently as well as a member of a team;
-Exercise good judgment, particularly with sensitive and/or confidential matters;
-Demonstrate experience in Student Initiated Retention and/or Outreach programming;
-Be a current member of an active registered student organization that conducts Student Initiated Outreach and Retention programming;
-May not be a coordinator for a Student Initiated Outreach and/or Retention programming;
-Ability to work with a diverse group;
-Must attend occasional weekend Board of Directors meetings;
-10-19 hours weekly commitment per quarter;
-Must be available for training and transition in the beginning of September;
-This is an Academic Year commitment, and must be registered student during the appointment, as well as, be physically present during your term; and one letter of Recommendation.

Engaging Education
University of California Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone (831) 459-1743
Fax (831) 459-1742

www.engagingeducation.org

Dear Filipino Student Association members,

My name is Margaret Owen and I am a Filipina American graduate student at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco. I am conducting a study that examines the effects of family influence on the body image and eating attitudes and behaviors of Filipina and Filipina American women. I am looking for Filipina or Filipina American women volunteers between the ages of 18-28 and I am wondering if it would be possible for me to ask your members to take the survey and/or perhaps even pass it on to other members in the Filipino Community.

Being a Filipina myself, I feel it is very important to have more studies conducted on our community as we tend to be poorly represented in research.

If your members decide to participate, and/or pass on this survey here is what is involved: Participation involves completing a survey about body-image, Asian values, and eating attitudes and behaviors.

The link to the website with the survey is:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=z2sQYYkVWpLn1H5VpPLIVQ_3d_3d
or:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=cM8tSV5WxN5C4KBt95MAIg_3d_3d

Thanks so much for your time, I really appreciate it! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Margaret Owen

What’s up fellow organizers and student orgs,

Below is some information on UCSC Professor and filmmaker, Renee Tajima-Pena’s (filmmaker of “Who Killed Vincent Chin?) new film entitled “Calavera Highway” which will be premiering in the bay area on May 4th at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

I think this would be a great event for you and your orgs to attend.

-If you saw “Carry the Tiger to the Mountain,” you should definitely come.
-If you saw “Who Killed Vincent Chin?,” you should definitely come.
-If you saw both, you should DEFINITELY definitely come.
-If you know friends and others who saw either, you should bring them.
-If you or your friends haven’t seen any of these, then you should definitely come.

Renee needs as much support as she can get. If any of you are at all interested in attending this screening, please reply back to me and we can collaborate on trying to get a group of us up there to help support Renee and her new film. Thank you all so much for your time.

We wanted to let you know that our documentary, “Little Manila: Filipinos in California’s Heartland” is going to be airing nationally on select PBS Stations. We’d love it if you could watch the program on your local station!

About the Program:
Narrated by Dean Devlin, famed Filipino-American movie producer (Independence Day, The Patriot), the program is about the infamous neighborhood in Stockton, CA, once called, “The City of Gold” by Filipinos. Filled with chop-suey houses, gambling dens, and dance halls, Little Manila was once home to the largest number of Filipino immigrants outside of the Philippines.

The show is part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month on PBS. Below are a few broadcast dates and times, but if your station isn’t listed here, please download the PDF schedule for broadcast times all over the US.

San Francisco Bay Area:
on KQED Channel 9 and KTEH 54 on Sunday May 4, at 1:30 PM

New York:
on WNET Channel 13 on Sunday May 4, at 7:00 PM
Monday May 5, at 4:00 AM
Friday May 9, at 11:00 P

Los Angeles:
on KLCS Channel 58 on May 1st, at 11 PM

Boston:
on WGBH Channel 2 on Friday May 30, at 7:00 PM
Saturday May 31 at 12:00 AM
Saturday May 31 at 8:00 AM, 2:00 P

We’re also working on another documentary about the Filipino farm workers in Delano, CA called “The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes of the UFW.”
For more information on it and our other programs please go to: www.mediafactory.tv.

And feel free to email us with any questions!

Sincerely,

Sheila Flores
MediaFactory
www.mediafactory.tv
Saul Zaentz Media Center
2600 Tenth St. Ste. 600
Berkeley CA 94710
office: 510-295-4305
screening@mediafactory.tv

Hello everyone! I just wanted to let you all know about the screening that’s happening at Cowell’s Fireside Lounge on Friday (tomorrow) at 7:30pm. We’ll be showing the Filipino-American movie “The Debut,” and it’s open and free to all UCSC students! We’re hoping to attract as many people as possible by advertising all over campus and showing a trailer and documentary for the film at tonight’s Filipino College Night. Please tell all your members about this event, and forward this to anyone else who might be interested! We hope to see you there!

Andrea Aquino UCSC, Cowell College Programs Assistant aquino@ucsc.edu