Honour student who works two jobs to support her siblings after her parents split up and left town is put in JAIL for missing school due to exhaustion
- Diane Tran, 17, thrown in jail for one night because of repeated absences from school
- Honours student has been working two jobs to keep family afloat since parents’ divorce
- Has been taking advanced placement and college courses in addition to jobs and missed school due to exhaustion
- Spent the night in jail for truancy
One last look at the ARCH Building and a first look at our temporary space. Renovations started today.
Full album can be found here.
Dear PAACH friends,
As you may have heard, the ARCH is being renovated, with move-out scheduled for Monday, 5/19. PAACH, along with Makuu and La Casa Latina, will be housed on the second floor of Houston Hall during the renovation period, which should take about 18 months. CURF will be re-located to 220 S. 40th Street.
Even though we are all sad to leave the space which has meant so much to us and our community for the past 12 years, we’re very excited for the future of the building. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the move or the renovation plans.
For anyone who is currently in Philly, tomorrow (Friday, 5/18) will be the last day that the space will be open. Even though everything is currently packed away in boxes, you’re all welcome to visit one last time. :)
Proof of Residency for Chinese-Americans
Under the provisions of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese immigrants and laborers were required to obtain a certificate as proof of their legal residency. These two documents are held in the Commissioner’s Case Files for the Second Judicial District of the Arizona Territorial Court. These case files are held at the National Archives at Riverside. The men pictured were named Ah Stu and Lee Ching Goon.
Observing Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
To pay tribute to the many generations of Asian-Pacific Americans that have enriched our nation’s history, the National Archives at Riverside will be highlighting some of our holdings relating to Asian American history in our region (Southern California, Arizona, and Clark County, NV), including records relating to enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act, records relating to Japanese internment and relocation, and many more.
For more information about Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, see http://asianpacificheritage.gov/
Summer Internship Opp. in Philadelphia’s Chinatown
Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation (PCDC) is looking for a summer student intern to help with its new Eastern Tower community center project.
Two NU students made targets of egging and racial slurs on tennis courts
The Northwestern University Police Department is launching an investigation into a racially-motivated verbal assault and egging Monday night.
APA Organizations at UPenn: A Visualization by Jenny Fan for FNAR 337 (Information Visualization) Final Project
For my very last final assignment in college (just finished an hour ago!), I made a very simple visualization with some basic information on the plethora of APA-interest student organizations available to UPenn undergrads. I did my best with data collection, but if there are any errors, please let me know at me@jennyfan.com and I will change it! Current student leaders are recent up to about mid-March and mostly reflect the leadership over the 2011-2012 academic year.
Warning: May not work on Firefox, looks best in Chrome.
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, a chance to learn more about the unique challenges facing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The graphic below highlights several of the key issues that the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) is working to address, many of which are often rendered ‘invisible’ by a lack of disaggregated data and false assumptions about the welfare of the AAPI community.
Are we on a Blue Scholars binge right now?
This is my personal favorite Blue Scholars song, Big Bank Hank (you may recognize it from the Google Glasses video).
Also, if you’re a non-lyric person here’s an instrumental version
Also, the (primarily APA) dance crew in this video, Step Boys, were recently featured on ABDC (just got eliminated sadly), and the message of how they interpret the song’s lyrics in this reel really does beg the question - “Whatcha gonna do today?”
Speaking of Blue Scholars...
Saba released his latest beat tape a few weeks ago. You can stream it online or support him by downloading the full album for $6. (You can also find his previous releases on the site.)
Good studying music if you’re the kind of person who gets distracted by listening to words.
Bad studying music if you’re the kind of person who gets distracted by adding your own words.
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