As the Vietnamese Student Union at UCLA brings back the Family System for the 2010-2011 school year, we are on a search for family heads! The Family System consists of four families, and is designed to provide VSU members with the opportunity to create interpersonal relationships and bonds with each other by attending social events, programming, and General Meetings with their families throughout the year. We cannot make this happen without family heads. Don’t wait! Apply to be a family head today! Applications are due by Friday, August 20th, 2010 by 5:00 PM.

To apply, print and fill out the attached document
OR
click here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFluOXZybnZ4dDdiUUliMlNoSjVOaFE6MQ

Thank you!

–
Ngoc Hanh Pham
Social Affairs Coordinator
Vietnamese Student Union at UCLA
| (310) 228-7118

VSU Family Head Application 2010-2011

Are you interested in the Southeast Asian American community and higher education?

Do you want to develop coordinating experience?

Want to be a part of something totally new and demands your creativity?

Apply now to be SEA CLEAR’s Wellness Coordinator for the upcoming 2010-2011 Academic Year.
Applications due August 20.

SEA CLEAR and VSU are searching for a Wellness Coordinator for the 2010-2011 Project Staff. The Wellness Coordinator (WC) will facilitate the process of developing the Wellness Component along with the Project Director and Assistant Director. The Wellness Component is SEA CLEAR’s newest component that has grown out of the Gender and Sexuality Component (since 2006) and the need for students to have a safe, alternative space to focus on their mental and physical well being, spirituality, as well as gender and sexual identity. The WC will be responsible for running Wellness Workgroup meetings that plan training/developments, programs, and tracking systems throughout the 2010-2011 academic year. The WC will also take part in general staff responsibilities, which include peer counseling, staff support, and participation in the Vietnamese Student Union (VSU). Position responsibilities can be negotiated and is contingent on funding from the Campus Retention Committee.

For more information, please contact Cecilia Ngo, Project Director at .

Apply online here: tiny.cc/SCWellnessApplication

Attachments:

2010.2011 SEA CLEAR Wellness Application

The Vietnamese Student Union at UCLA embraces the history and struggles of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian community, which is predominately made up of first generation immigrants. Across the University of California campuses, 1% of undocumented students are Vietnamese. We recognize that the DREAM Act would align with our mission to help further the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian community and beyond.

Please stop by and show your support. The Hunger Strike is located at Sepulveda and Santa Monica Blvd.

Catch Tom Nguyễn in Người Việt here!

This is a great opportunity for someone to shadow a Director on a major film project.  We are graduate students studying at the film program in Columbia University in New York and can’t stress enough how integral and important this role will be in the making of this film.  You would be part of a fantastic and encouraging team!

Duties would include translating the screenplay, reading at auditions, and translating during rehearsals and filming.  Must be able to start immediately and must show a passion towards filmmaking.  No pay, but great experience.

If interested, please contact Kevin Lau at  for more details.

Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s Black Friday permit got revoked, essentially, tonight, by the Westminster City Council, by a 3-1 vote.  In the end they relented and allowed her to keep the permit from 9 am to either 2 or 4 pm (there is some debate about that).  The community of Little Saigon will get to hold their event from 5 to 9 pm, which is when this event is usually held.

Why did Nguyen go to such lengths to screw her own people out of their event – a sacred function that allows the community to grieve over the loss of Vietnam?  Folks in Little Saigon were outraged by the Jannie takeover – you can read their comments over at the Bolsavik blog.

My sources tell me that Janet was bragging for months about how she was going to use this event to promote her team of candidates and electeds.  Now that dream has been shattered and folks are so upset that they are talking about recalling her!

I have even heard rumors that Janet was trying to “sell” candidates the right to appear on the stage with her at the Black Friday event.  I wonder how much she was going to charge Meg Whitman?

Today might well mark the beginning of the end for Janet and her Jannies, which include her Chief of Staff, Andrew Do, who was elected as a carpetbagger to the Garden Grove City Council in 2009; her husband, Tom Bonikowski, who Janet got appointed to the Garden Grove Planning Commission; and most of the lame bloggers at the Liberal OC, particularly Chris Prevatt and Claudio Gallegos.

-Source: http://orangejuiceblog.com/2010/04/janet-nguyen-gets-revoked-by-the-westminster-city-council/

The annual Black April Commemoration is a touching and empowering program that will serve as a tool to bridge the generational gap between many Vietnamese Americans and war-related immigrant families. Black April Commemoration Week 2010 aims to be as creative, engaging, educational, heart-felt and welcoming as possible.

– please see the attached fliers –

Vietnamese Student Union at UCLA presents:

Black April Commemoration Week 2010
“War Changes Lives”
4/27 – 4/30

4/27 TUESDAY
BLACK APRIL ART GALLERY
Time: 11 AM – 2 PM
Location: Meyerhoff Park (next to Kerckhoff steps)
Look forward to: live art-making as well as explore a historical timeline and artwork that sheds light on the effects of the Vietnam War on the Southeast Asian people and regions

4/28 WEDNESDAY
BLACK APRIL DOCUMENTARY SCREENING
Time: 4-7 PM
Location: Student Activities Center Basement Conference Rooms 1 & 2
Look forward to: Documentary: Hearts and Minds, Vietnamese Student Union and United Afghan Club collaboration, free food and drinks

4/29 THURSDAY
BLACK APRIL ART GALLERY
Time: 11 AM – 2 PM
Location: Meyerhoff Park (next to Kerckhoff steps)
Come see and participate in live art-making as well as explore a historical timeline and artwork that sheds light on the effects of the Vietnam War on the Southeast Asian people and regions

AND

BLACK APRIL COMMEMORATION EVENT
Time: 6-9 PM, Doors open at 5:45 PM, Program starts at 6 PM
Location: Los Angeles Tennis Center Clubhouse (near Pauley Pavilion and Intramural Field)
Dress code: All black/semi-formal attire
Look forward to: Special Guest Speakers and Panelists, a video by VSU Interns, Candlelight Vigil, and free food and drinks

4/30 FRIDAY
BLACK APRIL IN ORANGE COUNTY
Time: 6-11 PM
Location:
Vietnam War Memorial:
Sid Goldstein Freedom Park, 14180 All American Way, Westminster, Ca
For rides: rsvp to , Cars will be leaving UCLA at 3:30 PM

**ART CONTEST** Submit a work of art including a painting, photograph, drawing, poetry, spoken word piece, short story, or any other art-related material that relates to the theme: “War Changes Lives” by contacting Van Huynh at before April 29th. All pieces of art will be displayed at the Black April Commemoration event and entered in the contest to win a $50 prize.

To volunteer for any of the events: contact Dieu Huynh at .

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