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Black Bruin Family,
It is with pure joy I announce to all of you that ASU's very own Retention Coordinator, Jasmine Hill, is running to be next year's USAC President! We need ALL of you—current students and alumni—to organize and rally behind Jasmine's candidacy and the SF! student government slate. We are going to need 0-100 volunteers, please respond to this email if you are willing to lend a hand in the coming weeks.
In Love & Solidarity,
Tierra Moore
Internal Public Relations
2009-10
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ASU Staff Elections 2010-11
[today is the last day to vote!!]
Hey Everyone!!
It's time for elections again!!! You have until this Friday at midnight to vote but vote ASAP at http://www.ballotbin.com/voterReg.php?b=13615
Once you've registered check your email and you should receive a link to vote.
Thanks!
Results we be released this Saturday at 12pm via 411!
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ASU's Higher Education Conference
The Higher Education Conference is ASU's primary high school outreach program. HEC is tomorrow, Saturday 4/24. This year we are anticipating over 200 Black high school students! If you will have even 3 free hours tomorrow, please volunteer. We need your help to make HEC successful!!
Volunteer Orientation is happening from TODAY 4/23 3-4pm in Dykstra lounge 2 (Afro-Diaspora Floor).
Contact HEC Chair Adrien Sebro for questions or if you cant make it to the orientation but would still like to volunteer
760.672.4847
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Transfer Student BBQ
It's that time of the year again! Time for another transfer BBQ! This time around we will not only be having delicious food, but you can come and learn about resources available for transfers on campus. There will be tabling from different entities on campus to help facilitate the transitioning process from your CC to UCLA. Not only that but this is a great opportunity to get out meet some fellow transfers, exchange stories and help UCLA better service transfer students! This event is open to everybody, transfers and non-transfer students, but caters especially to transfer needs.
ITS THIS FRIDAY @ 5PM IN SUNSET REC (UPPER LEVEL)! DELICIOUS FREE FOOD!!! ALL ARE WELCOMED TO JOIN!
-Transfer BBQ
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multi-summer internships for minority students
Thanks to Luke Czer in Student Affairs for providing your information. The Emma Bowen Foundation recruits minority students for multi-summer internships that last throughout the student's undergraduate college years.
We are recruiting for two opportunities in the Los Angeles area, and below my signature and attached is information.
You may know freshmen who have expressed an interest in accounting, financial planning, or in becoming a financial analyst. Such students may benefit from the Finance opportunity. Similarly, you may know freshmen who have indicated an interest in business and who would soon like to find part-time employment. These students may want to consider the opportunity described on the business flyer.
Anyone interested can call the number below as I am happy to respond to questions regarding the Foundation and our unique multi-year program.
Regards,
Rita Torres
Regional Director, Western Region
CBS Studio City Center
4024 Radford Avenue
Studio City, CA 91604
818-655-5707, Fax 818-655-8358
http://www.emmabowenfoundation.com/main.html; 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
INFORMATION
The Emma L. Bowen Foundation for Minority Interests in media recruits underrepresented minority youth to intern at industry companies in their home towns. Any minority student who is a high school junior or senior, or college freshman is eligible to apply. Some of the requirements are: A cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0, an interest in the media industry, and plans to attend a four-year accredited college or university.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens or legal residents, and speak and write English fluently.
HOW TO APPLY. Go to: www.emmabowenfoundation.com. Download the application that includes mailing instructions on page 5. While on the web page scroll down past the U.S. map and the list of states, and then click on Frequently Asked Questions. If there are still questions call 818-655-5708.
Applicants should enter your department along with school in response to the
question: How did you learn about our program? At close of recruiting season we will provide the total number of applications that refer to you, and your finalists for in-person interview with the sponsor.
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VIP Scholars
VIP Scholars is hiring for VIPS 2010 Summer Program! Applications are due April 28th. Spread the word! The application is attached or can be picked up in 1218 Campbell Hall. For more questions, call 310.825.2366 or email vips@college.ucla.edu.
Thanks,
Jonli Tunstall
VIPScholars Director, UCLA
310-206-5245
310-206-2595 (fax)
"Promoting Access, Equity, and Educational Excellence"
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Black Hypertension Project
The Black Hypertension Project will need volunteers at the upcoming events:
Black Barbershop Site – Saturday April 24, 2010 10 a.m.-2 p.m. "In the Cut" Barbershop
Blood Pressure Training is mandatory for all those who plan to volunteer and do screenings at site of the health fair.
· BP TRAINING WILL BE ON TUESDAY, APRIL 27TH FROM 5-9PM in Haines A82
If interested in becoming a board member please pick up and fill out an application and return to BHP cubicle:
· Apps due 4/23 at 5pm in Monet and Rodney boxes
We will need a lot of help for this years health fair if interested please come to meetings every Wednesday from 6:00 p.m-7:00 p.m. :
Health Fair- May 8, 2010 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
· Any Questions Please Contact: bhpucla@gmail.com and also remember BHP General Meetings Weds 6-7 SAC B1
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Afrikan Women' s Collective
AWC would like to thank all of you who attended our "Take 7" on Friday! It was extremely insightful and so much great conversation was shared in the space. For those of you who were not able to make it to the circle, we hope you plan on attending our upcoming events as we try to move forward as a collective and finish the year strong.
That being said, a good point about AWC meeting in a more intimate space was brought up during Friday's forum. Thus, AWC has decided to host an impromptu dinner social this Sunday. Come cook and converse with the Afrikan Women of UCLA!
The dinner will be at Kenyatta's house, 12036 Culver Blvd.
Please contact Kenyatta at 909 586 2281 or Ashley V. Williams at 323 804 1685 if you have any questions. You are not required to RSVP if you will attend, but it would be helpful to give Kenyatta, Ashley or any other AWC staff member a heads up just so that we can have an accurate count of attendees.
Also, we are now collecting money for "Vagina Monologue" tickets. Tickets are $12.
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER!! @Jamii_AWC
Below is a list of AWC's upcoming events for the rest of Spring quarter.
Week 4: April 23- Vagina Monologue Circle
April 25- Outing to see "Vagina Monologues"
Applications for new staff available
Week 5: April 28- AWC hosts Black Wednesday
Week 6: May 5- Mother's Day cards (available at Black Wednesday)
AWC hosts study hall in SAC Basement
New staff announced
Week 7: May 14- Mixer with AWC Founders
Week 8: May 21- Women and Violence
Week 9: Jazz Reggae Fest Social
HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON!
Much Love,
Ashley V. Williams
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Love your Match?, Hate your Match?, Never even met with your Match?!!!
Well here is an opportunity to provide some feedback to ASP African Brothers & Sisters Component:)
This survey will only take a few minutes so please take the time to fill it out & spread the word to your mentee/mentor!
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGUxV3oxTndQYkJoQy0tVUhEZEpFYWc6MA
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Karen S. Horton
University of California, Los Angeles
Psychobiology Major, Junior
ASP Administrative Assistant
karenhorton@ucla.edu
310) 612 - 6647 (c)
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UCLA book 'Black Los Angeles' chronicles city's African American history, issues
Letisia Marquez, lmarquez@support.ucla.edu
310-206-3986
California's anti–gay marriage intitiative Proposition 8 ignited a debate within Los Angeles' African American gay and lesbian communities: Should black same-sex couples come out to family and friends to help garner support for gay marriage, or should they continue to take a "don't ask, don't tell" approach?
"Some in the community were becoming more supportive of gay sexuality as an identity status that could exist alongside a strong racial-group affinity. Others were holding fast to religious and cultural ideologies that reduced gay sexuality to an immoral behavior and thus not a valid identity status," says Mignon R. Moore, a UCLA sociologist and professor of African American studies whose research — along with the work of more than two dozen other scholars — appears a new book that sheds light on black Los Angeles.
"Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities" (NYU Press, April 2010), co-edited by Darnell Hunt, director of UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, and the center's assistant director, Ana-Christina Ramón, delves into the long and rich history of African Americans in Los Angeles and presents a snapshot of contemporary issues affecting the community.
"African Americans have played important and pivotal roles in Los Angeles' history," Hunt says. "As our book demonstrates, African Americans have had a powerful impact on the development of the city — from being part of the first settlers in 1781, through the period of the region's tremendous growth, to the present day."
"Black Los Angeles is and has always been a space of profound contradictions," Hunt writes in the book. "Just as Los Angeles has come to symbolize the complexities of the early twenty-first–century city, so too has Black Los Angeles come to embody the complex realities of race in so-called 'colorblind' times."
"Black Los Angeles" is the culmination of eight years of research the center conducted on African American communities in the region.
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UCLA Bunche Center honors scholar Harry Edwards as 2010 Thurgood Marshall Speaker
----Attendance of Black Athletes strongly Suggested----
Letisia Marquez, lmarquez@support.ucla.edu
310-206-3986
Harry Edwards, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of sociology and the activist who spurred black athletes to raise their fists in a "black power" protest at the 1968 Olympic Games, will deliver the 2010 Thurgood Marshall lecture at UCLA on Thursday, April 29.
The event, organized by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, will begin with a reception at 5:30 p.m., followed by Edwards' lecture at 7 p.m. in the Grand Horizon Room at UCLA's Covel Commons. The free lecture is co-sponsored by Fox Studios' diversity unit.
Each year, a prominent leader in the African American community is asked to deliver the Thurgood Marshall Lecture on Law and Human Rights. The event honors the legacy and contributions of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, whose record of civil rights advocacy is inextricably linked to the African American struggle for social and economic justice. Past lecturers have included civil rights activist and former Black Panther chairperson Elaine Brown, law professor and author Lani Guinier, NAACP chairperson Julian Bond and late UCLA alumnus and noted attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.
A star athlete at East St. Louis High School in Illinois, Edwards was awarded an athletic scholarship to San Jose State University and graduated four years later. He subsequently was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a University Fellowship to Cornell University, where he completed master's and doctoral degrees in sociology.
Spurred by the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Edwards started the Olympic Project for Human Rights, which worked against racism in sports and society. Edwards believed that protest efforts would dramatize the racial inequities and barriers confronting African Americans.
For the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Edwards advocated a boycott by black athletes and other forms of protests. During the medal ceremony for the 200-meter race, gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos, both African Americans, raised their fists in a black power salute as international photographers snapped pictures. The photo would eventually become an iconic image of the civil rights movement.
The author of "The Revolt of the Black Athlete," Edwards also has advocated for more African American athletes to pursue professional career paths and for more blacks to be represented in sports management. He has been a consultant to the NFL's San Francisco 49ers and the NBA's Golden State Warriors.
To attend the event, the public can R.S.V.P. to atucker@bunche.ucla.edu or -310-206-8267.
For more news, visit the UCLA Newsroom and follow us on Twitter.
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BMI Think Tank
UCLA's Black Male Institute conference.
Please see attachment
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Call for Papers & Presentations
[Submission deadline: May 15, 2010]
The Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative: Art, Migrations, Development
UCLA Conference: October 22-24, 2010
Los Angeles Festival: September, 2010 – March, 2011
This innovative conference and festival will highlight the extraordinary Watts Towers of Sabato (Simon/Sam) Rodia, Italian immigrant and single-minded artist, who wanted to do "something big." His Towers in Watts, a National Historic Landmark and internationally-renowned icon, are both a personal artistic expression and collective symbol of Nuestro Pueblo—Our Town/Our People. This Initiative seeks to refocus attention on the Watts Towers, renew our commitment to art in human and community development, and celebrate the common ground of the Watts Towers as an inspiring symbol of creativity, sustained resolve in adversity, and positive transformation. A consortium of sponsors* will launch this Initiative in 2010 with an international conference at UCLA, and public events throughout the city, in a festival of art, film, theater, music, communal food tables, and tours, with the goal of addressing modes of sustaining art, community development, the common good, as well as promoting hospitality and partnership across geographic, social, and other boundaries.
Paper/presentation proposals must be submitted by e-mail only and include:
1. One-paragraph bio-bibliography or resumé (with name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, telephone number)
2. Paper title and one-page abstract addressing one or more of the five themes below as they apply specifically to the Watts Towers or to related areas in other cultural contexts (please indicate to which of the themes your paper pertains):
1) Rodia's Towers in art and architectural history
2) the Watts Towers campus: monument, art center, community
3) preserving and promoting the Watts Towers
4) art, cultural heritage, and migration: local, national, global cartographies
5) art, education, and community development
[Oral presentations are limited to 20 minutes (+ 10 minutes for questions). Please note: financial support for conference participants is unavailable.]
Deadline: May 15, 2010
Contact: Luisa Del Giudice, luisadg@humnet.ucla.edu, Project Director
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Scholarship for UCLA Afro-AM Major/Minors
JULIAN "CANNONBALL" ADDERLEY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
This scholarship fund was established in 1976 to honor the memory of the late internationally renowned jazz musician, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley. It represents an effort on the part of UCLA and the Bunche Center to foster greater appreciation for the African American musical heritage. Awards are made on a competitive basis to UCLA undergraduates with financial need majoring in Afro-American Studies, the arts, music, and other related fields.
Applications Available: Haines Hall 160
Applications Due: Friday, May 7, 2010 @ 5 PM
Funds ($500) are awarded for UCLA educational expenses for Fall Quarter 2010.
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Scholarship for UCLA Afro-AM Major/Minors
JOHN DENSMORE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
In academic year 1991-92, John Densmore (former drummer for the musical group The Doors) established an endowment fund to support UCLA undergraduate majors or minors in Afro-American Studies. Funds are awarded to students who have demonstrated outstanding academic success and other achievements. When asked what motivated him to establish the scholarship, Mr. Densmore responded: "The purpose of the gifts is to give back some of the good fortune I've received. My early influences were the great jazz musicians, many of whom are of African American descent, and I feel my path of late is one of reciprocity."
Applications Available: Haines Hall 160
Applications Due: Friday, May 7, 2010 @ 5 PM
Funds ($5000) are awarded for UCLA educational expenses for the 2010-11 academic year.
For further information about either scholarship, please call 310-206-8267.
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