ViSA Digest: 4/13

Mon Apr 13 17:24:13 EDT 2009

JOIN US IN THE SAYBROOK FELLOW'S LOUNGE WEDNESDAYS AT 5:30!
(But more importantly, JOIN US TO COOK THIS WEEK FOR PHO NIGHT!)

Pho Night, Pho Night, Pho Night. Come to meeting, help cook. Signups  
will circulate over
the social list, but if you're not on that list and want to help out  
(and I know you do) just e-mail
me. Tell all your friends, sell presale tickets, and help out all this  
week!

ViSA
YVSG, PHO NIGHT, ViSA ViBE, T-shirts

Yale
Music for AASA Formal, Good Asian Drivers, AASA Semi-Formal,  
Revelasians, Wrice

Opportunities
Summer Job at SOM, Advertising Career Lunch, Teach for America, City  
Year, Achievement First

Yale Vietnamese Studies Group - this week:

Please join us this Wednesday, 15 April 2009, at 4:00 pm in WLH 211  
for Prof. Erik Harms'
talk on "Real Estate Fever as a People's Movement?  Re Thinking  
'Everyday Politics' and
the Household in Post-reform Era Vietnam."

PHO NIGHT PHO NIGHT PHO NIGHT

Pho night is THIS SATURDAY. Cooking will be happening every night,  
starting tomorrow.
Signups circulated at last week's meeting, and will similarly  
circulate on the social list, so
let's all help make this semester's Pho Night as successful as last's!  
Remember, ADVERTISE
ADVERTISE ADVERTISE. Tell your friends, your teachers, that cute  
section asshole, people
you don't even like, make them come! Tell them you will see them there  
and personally spoon-
feed them delicious mouthfuls of Vietnamese culture.

ViSA ViBE

Last change, send your submissions to trinh.nguyen at yale.edu.

T-shirt designs

We already have several designs submitted, and are in the process of  
selecting ViSA's
newest t-shirt! Stay tuned, and get your wallets ready.

Music for AASA Formal!

The AASA Spring Formal is coming up, and you get to choose the music  
we party to! E-mail me with suggestions (literally, anything) and  
Board will narrow down a shortlist of 10-15. No joke, send me music  
suggestions.

Good Asian Drivers Tour

Fri. Apr. 17 at 10 PM @ AfAm House Multipurpose Room (211 Park St)
Come join us for the Good Asian Drivers Tour on Fri, April 17th, 10  
pm, for some Song & Slam Poetry by the renowned duo: Kit Yan and  
Melissa Li.

AASA Semi-Formal

AASA is creating a working group to plan the AASA dance for the end of  
the semester--it will tentatively be held on April 27th. This event  
will not happen if there isn't input from all the boards. If you're  
interested in working with the leaders from the other Asian American  
groups and planning what will be THE dance for the community, please  
email peter.lu at yale.edu with your interest. The first meeting should  
happen next week.

AACC Revelasians Submissions

Revelations is a magazine published every semester by the Asian  
American Cultural Center containing essays, poems, reflections, short  
stories, artwork, photography and much more from the Asian American  
community at Yale. We are currently in the process of collecting these  
pieces for inclusion in the Spring 2009 issue and would love to  
feature you work! There are no requirements, as long as the work is  
your own. If you have anything that you made for fun, for class, for  
anything, just lying around, we want to see it! It's really very  
simple. Just send your work to kevin.chiu at yale.edu and that's it!

Wrice

Wrice, formally known as the Yellow Pages, is a literary and arts  
magazine dedicated to
Asian and Asian American issues and is seeking submissions today for  
current events,
fiction, photo essays, poetry, etc (send to: wriceyale at gmail.com) as  
well as people to help
with editing, layout, and business.  Contact amy.ly at yale.edu for any  
questions.

SUMMER JOB at SOM

Greetings from the Yale School of Management!

We are writing with a summer job opportunity for your student  
advisees.  As you may already know, the Yale School of Management is  
launching its Pre-MBA Leadership Program this summer and we are  
looking for rising Yale College juniors and seniors to act as student  
advisors.

The program’s website is here.

The job posting is listed at the Student Employment website here.

Please feel free to contact Shelley Clifford at shelley.clifford at yale.edu 
  if you have any questions.

Interested in a Career in Advertising?
Join Yin Rani, Senior Vice President of Grey Advertising
for lunch to learn about different career paths in the advertising  
industry!

Tuesday, April 14
60 Sachem St (School of Management), Room A48
12:00 - 1:00 pm

If you are interested, please RSVP to aacc.alumni at gmail.com.
Space is limited to 20 students, so RSVP today!

TEACH FOR AMERICA UNDERCLASSMEN INFO SESSION
Teach For America Underclassmen Info Session: Planning For TheFuture

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 (7:00 pm)

Branford College Common Room

We would like to welcome all juniors and underclassmen to come learn  
about Teach For America.  This is an opportunity to speak with  
representatives from the organization, as well as some Yale/TFA  
alumni, about their corps member experiences.

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college  
graduates and working professionals - of all academic majors,  
backgrounds and career interests - who commit two years to teach in  
urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders for  
expanding educational opportunity for all children.

Each year, Teach For America selects a diverse corps of individuals  
who have the skills and commitment to make a real impact on the  
academic prospects of students growing up today in low-income  
communities, and to exert long term leadership in the effort to  
eliminate educational inequity. Teach For America corps members  
receive extensive training, full salaries and benefits, as well as  
continual support through a two-year professional development program  
to ensure their success as teachers and beyond.

Today there are more than 14,000 Teach For America alumni working in a  
variety of sectors, including business, education, law, medicine, and  
public policy.  Please visit our website to learn more: www.teachforamerica.org

Please join us for an information session and learn how you can join  
in the movement to end educational inequity (snacks will be served).   
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Crystal Tang at crystal.tang at teachforamerica.org 
  or David Stanley at david.stanley at teachforamerica.org.

City Year Community Service Program

DEADLINE: Wed. April 15, 2009

Today in New York City, 58% of 4th graders are functionally  
illiterate, and half will not graduate from high school. You can  
change the course of these children's lives by joining City Year in  
New York or in one of 17 other sites across the country.  City Year is  
hiring corps members to commit to one year of full time community  
service working on a diverse team of 17-24 year olds.  Apply online at www.cityyear.org 
.

ACHIEVEMENT FIRST FELLOWSHIP
Not sure of summer plans? Interested in making a difference? Apply to  
Achievement First Summer Fellowship today!

Achievement First runs a network of charter schools in Connecticut and  
New York aimed at closing the achievement gap with students from lower  
income, predominantly minority communities. A Yale Law School graduate  
co-founded Achievement First in 2003 when the organization opened its  
first school, Amistad Academy, in New Haven. Students who are  
interested in education (teaching or administration), non-profit  
leadership, non-profit and business administration and  
entrepreneurship will find this fellowship interesting. The fellowship  
runs nine weeks from June 15th - August 14th and offers a $3,000  
stipend. The deadline to apply is April 17th, and the fellowship is  
highly competitive so students are encouraged to apply ASAP.

If you have any questions, please e-mail Bernard Holloway at bernardholloway at achievementfirst.org 
.

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