Samahang Pilipino celebrates its 40th anniversary
April 19, 2012 – 3:42 PM | No Comment

Forty years of history. Forty years of activism. Forty years of family. This year, Samahang Pilipino, a student organization representing the Filipino student voice at UCLA, will celebrate its 40th anniversary and commemorate its many …

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Vietnamese Americans and Cambodian Americans sue BP over Oil Spill
May 4, 2012 – 10:37 AM | No Comment

In an email sent to contractors in the Gulf Oil Spill, BP specifically told them not to hire vessels owned by Vietnamese Americans and Cambodian Americans in the oil spill clean-up. Despite the fact that …

Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik is coming to UCLA!
May 1, 2012 – 10:23 AM | No Comment

The Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik at UCLA!
The Regents Scholar Society Presents
MAYIM BIALIK: UCLA alumna, actress, and author.
May 2nd, 7:30pm, Rolfe 1200
In addition to starring and garnering laughs on “The Big Bang Theory” as neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler, …

Resilience in the Vietnamese-American Community
April 22, 2012 – 11:19 PM | No Comment

The Vietnamese American community has become more open to approaching mental health professionals. This increased openness has been linked to a “progressive” attitude from  mental health professionals.
Dong-Matsuda, a mental health professional and community volunteer, also …

Investing in ethnic programming a success for KBIF
April 22, 2012 – 11:10 PM | No Comment

In times of financial trouble, it pays off to observe the needs of the community. In the 1980s, the radio station KBIF based in Fresno, California did exactly this when its religious broadcasting was simply not garnering enough …

A New Age between the West and Burma
January 16, 2012 – 11:19 AM | No Comment

Burma has finally decided to release numerous political inmates of which some have been held for decades. This is one of many recent gestures to the west, which involve legalizing labor unions, opening a dialogue …

I’ll take an order of Pizza with Pepperoni and Racism
January 10, 2012 – 8:15 AM | No Comment

No, Minhee Cho’s order did not accidentally contain a human finger but an employee at Papa John’s was probably better giving the human touch. After she had received her receipt, Cho noted that she had been …

UC Regents and Rally Meeting: Reflection
December 15, 2011 – 2:36 PM | One Comment

– Written by staff writer Grace Yim
The University of California Regents meeting on November 28th was accompanied by the small but loud and pasionate student protesters.
UCLA graduate student Jason Ball says protesters are expressing …