CASA Weekly Newsletter 3/18/2012

Sun Mar 18 18:32:20 EDT 2012

CASA Weekly Newsletter

*March 18, 2012* 	CASA Weekly Newsletter
	http://www.yalecasa.com

*Relay for Life: Fight cancer all night!*
Friday-Saturday. April 20-21, 2012, Payne-Whitney Gym running track.

Join CASA in celebrating Relay for Life! Don't miss your chance to camp 
out at Payne Whitney with your CASA friends, along with food, music, 
games, and entertainment! Sponsored by the American Cancer Society, it's 
an overnight relay-style that will be held on April 20-21. If you think 
you might be swamped with work, /don't worry/ - it's a Relay so you 
don't have to be there the whole time! There's nothing that beats 
pulling an all-nighter with your friends!

Interested? Just follow these simple steps to sign up:

1. Click on this link: relayforlife.org/yale 
<http://www.relayforlife.org/yale>
2. Click "View all" next to the caption "Top Teams". Look for "Yale 
CASA" and click "Join Team"
3. Follow the directions from there.

See you there!

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*Be a part of the CASA Cultural Show!*

Come share the message that cultural loss is universal.  Audition for 
the CASA Cultural Show! You DON'T have to be of Asian descent to audition!

An overview of the CASA Cultural Show:
When: Friday, April 13th, 2012
Where: SSS 114
Food: Will be free

If you**are interested or have**questions, email 
amalia.halikias at yale.edu. <mailto:%20amalia.halikias at yale.edu>
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*CASA's Response to the NYPD incident
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On Saturday, February 18th, the Associated Press broke the story that 
the New York Police Department had from 2006 to 2009 conducted extensive 
surveillance against Muslim Student Associations (MSAs) at seventeen 
universities across the northeast, including Yale. The NYPD monitored 
MSA websites on a daily basis, using information its agents collected to 
create profiles of affiliated students and professors and compiling the 
data in weekly reports. In some cases, surveillance was more intrusive; 
the AP reports that NYPD officers established an undercover safehouse to 
monitor the Muslim American community at Rutgers University in New 
Jersey and placed an informant on a whitewater rafting trip sponsored by 
the Muslim Student Association of City College of New York. Such 
surveillance, the full extent of which is still unknown, can only be 
interpreted as indicative of a policy of religious profiling against 
Muslim Americans. We, the Political Action and Education Committee 
(AASA-PAEC) of the Asian American Students Alliance, must condemn such 
profiling as morally reprehensible and distinctly un-American in 
principle, at the very least violating in spirit the civil liberties 
guaranteed by the Constitution.

The NYPD had no reasonable grounds on which to justify its surveillance; 
those targeted were ordinary college students monitored solely on the 
basis of their religious beliefs. None were ever charged with a crime. 
Yet when pressed on February 21st about the allegations, New York City 
Mayor Bloomberg dismissed their seriousness, suggesting that 
racial/religious profiling is acceptable when used to protect national 
security. While all of us can agree that safeguarding our nation's 
well-being will require continued vigilance and strength, it is highly 
deplorable to characterize personal freedoms as inherently incompatible 
and subservient to national security. We condemn the latent prejudices 
embodied in these actions. We believe that religious and racial 
profiling is a problem not merely of concern to the Muslim American 
community, but affects all Americans, particularly those of minority 
status. We, AASA-PAEC, will stand together with MSA in any way we can to 
provide the resources, man-power, and support for any response MSA 
plans. We are grateful that President Levin has publicly affirmed the 
support of the Yale administration, for it reiterates the importance of 
the strength of coordinated and decisive action of our community. Though 
the story is disconcerting and intolerable, we believe this affords our 
entire community a promising opportunity to effect real change.

PAEC, AASA, MSA, AACC, CASA, JASU, KASAMA, KASY, SAS,TAS, ViSA, and the 
Yale Chapter of NAPAWF
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*BRIC by BRIC: An Emerging Markets Conference* on Saturday, March 24, 
2012 at the Omni Hotel, New Haven
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Register at http://bxb2012.eventbrite.com/.

*****
**FREE AND OPEN TO THE YALE COMMUNITY**
**/Lunch provided/*

/*
Chaired by Professor Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow at Yale
Opening Address by Ted Snyder, Dean of Yale SOM

Featuring 25+ speakers from business, academia, and NGOs!*/

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*Keynotes include:*

·The President and CEO of HSBC Latin America

·Former Minister of the Economy, Foreign Affairs & President of the 
Central Bank of Argentina

·President & CEO of the world's largest microfinance network

*/Discuss emerging markets issues of the day with.../*

·/The chairman of a clean tech investment firm specializing in emerging 
markets/

/·A private investor and published specialist on financial cycles/

/·The head of Latin America research at Goldman Sachs/

/·A head of Asia-Pacific practice at a top law firm/

/·A former senior executive at ExxonMobil/

/·A policy scholar at a leading think-tank/

/Presented by the Yale Undergraduate Business Society and the  
Microfinance Brigades & Energy Club/

*Photography + Froyo*
last day to enter: TOMORROW!
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Submit your photos for the CASA Photo Lottery and get a chance to win a 
froyo gift card!  Send them in by March 19 (the day we get back from 
Spring Break).  Photos must follow under the general theme of Asian 
culture, whether it be music, food, art... just be creative!

Email all photos to maggie.zhou at yale.edu 
<mailto:%20maggie.zhou at yale.edu>.  Select photos will be published in 
CASA Currents, CASA's annual newsletter that is sent out to alumni, 
Bulldog Days prefrosh, and the Yale student body.

Looking forward to seeing all your submissions!

*Summer Program at PKU in Beijing!
*Wed. Feb 29. 5-7p. Trumbull Rm. in Branford
SUCCESS @ PKU -- Summer US-China Cultural Exchange for Students @ Peking 
University, is taking applications for 2012 session!

SUCCESS is launched by the Association of Sino-US Exchange, Peking 
University. Its mission is to promote the understanding and 
communication of Chinese language and culture among leading college 
students in China and US. It provides participants with excellent 
opportunities to interact with Chinese peers,
build global network, learn Chinese and experience Chinese traditional 
culture in
a prestigious academic setting.

Program Overview
Time:     May. 28 -- June 18, 2012
Venue:  Peking University, Beijing, China

Program Details
1) Learn Chinese in the most prestigious university in China.
2) Interact with college and graduate students in PKU, and build 
life-long connections.
3) Attend a series of lectures about Chinese history and culture.
4) Field trips around Beijing.
5) Take a trip to Chengde Mountain Resort, where you will get to live in 
a Yurt and ride camels.

Application includes:
- Resume (in English)
- Proof of student status (i.e. copy of student ID)
- A copy of transcript
- Personal Statement
- (optional) Certificate of your Chinese language skills -- for 
reference when awarding scholarship
1) Send your application to: success at pku.edu.cn 
<mailto:%20success at pku.edu.cn>
2) The email subject line should be:
Application for SUCCESS_ Your Name_ Your University_ Your Major
3) You will be contacted for an interview.

Tuition: $2499, and does not include transportation, living, most meals, 
or the field trip to the Chengde Mountain Resort.
Merit scholarships will be given out!

For a detailed PDF file containing more information, email 
sylvia.zhang at yale.edu <mailto:%20sylvia.zhang at yale.edu>.

To directly contact a SUCCESS @ PKU representative, email Taolue Tian at 
ttian13 at gsb.columbia.edu <mailto:%20ttian13 at gsb.columbia.edu>.

*Love CASPY? You may love this, too.
*Register by Friday 3/23. Event on 4/1.
The Chinese Students and Scholars Association 
<http://bentleygsa.org/cssa/> at Bentley University is hosting "China 
Family Connection," which aims to provide adopted Chinese children and 
their parents an access to genuine Chinese culture on April 1st. This 
event is a non-profit event and all the income from tickets will be 
spent on food, workshop materials and etc. If any fund left after this 
event, we will donate it to the Wide Horizon For Children.

Register online <http://www.eventsbot.com/events/eb113771526> by this 
Friday (3/23) to be part of this fun and fulfilling event!

Find more details here <http://www.eventsbot.com/events/eb113771526>.

If you have any questions email Julong Yang, a student at Bentley, at 
junoyang88 at gmail.com <mailto:%20junoyang88 at gmail.com>.

*****Teach in China this summer!*
with Building Bridges

Are you interested in leading an educational trip to rural China this 
summer?

Building Bridges is currently looking for potential leaders for our 
summer volunteer trip. Each year in early-mid August, our organization 
sends Yalies to various regions in rural China to teach English and 
science to kids at the disadvantaged schools there. We're starting to 
plan this summer's trip, so if you think you would be interested in 
being a leader for this year's trip we want to hear from you!

For more information on our organization, please visit our website at 
http://www.bbusc.org/. <http://www.bbusc.org/>

Trip leaders should be enthusiastic, motivated, and organized. You'll be 
working with one or two other Yalies to lead a group of at least fifteen 
other students to a region of rural China where you will design and 
teach a week-long curriculum. You'll also get to work with Chinese NGOs 
and students from top Chinese universities. Chinese proficiency would be 
a big plus, but it is not wholly necessary. Most importantly, if this is 
something you'd like to do, please email jeanette.chin at yale.edu 
<mailto:%20jeanette.chin at yale.edu> with your name, class year, and the 
location in China you have in mind to teach at. If you happen to already 
have some connections to schools/organizations in China that we could 
work with for the trip, that's even better--please let us know that too!

**<http://http://helpingjanet.com/>*Janet, a student at UCLA, needs bone 
marrow match by April.
*www.helpingjanet.com <http://www.helpingjanet.com>

In 2009, Janet Liang was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia 
while majoring in international development studies at UCLA.

Although she ahieved full remission in 2010,
During her treatment at the UCLA Medical Center, she began her "Team 
Janet" campaign. After undergoing several aggressive rounds of 
chemotherapy, Janet achieved full remission in 2010. Unfortunately, in 
December 2011, doctors informed her that she had relapsed...

Her cancer has returned. She now has until April to find a perfect 
marrow match --- her best option for a full recovery.

Help Janet beat leukemia once and for all. You could be her bone marrow 
match.

Click here to learn how to register as a bone marrow donor and complete 
a cheek swab - no needles or blood drawn. If you register, you may end 
up saving someone's life.

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