Teach for America

To all Graduating in 2010 or below (Juniors, Sophmores, and Freshmen) following is a letter from Lee Robbins the Recruitment Associate for Teach For America:

I am writing to encourage you to consider the Campus Campaign Coordinator position, for which we are currently hiring for the 2009-2010 academic year. Campus Campaign Coordinators (CCCs) are undergraduate students who play a critical role in effecting social change by inspiring outstanding students on their campuses to join Teach For America. CCCs develop and execute a strategic plan to recruit talented and diverse students to apply to Teach For America, build support for Teach For America and issues surrounding educational inequity through event planning and relationship-building on campus, and increase Teach For America's visibility on campus through the execution of mass publicity strategies (e-mail, campus press, hanging posters and flyers, etc.).

Our team is accepting applications through March 27. If you have any questions about the position please feel free to contact Lee Robbins at lee.robbins@teachforamerica.org Below you will find the link where you can read more about the position and apply. I do hope you will consider this great opportunity to influence change.
Take care,
Lee

Remember the people who helped you succeed?
Teach For being a role model for others.
Visit http://www.teachforamerica.org
Lee Robbins
Recruitment Associate ~ Indiana Recruitment Team
Teach For America

lee.robbins@teachforamerica.org
(202) 552-2430

The American Play

Suzan-Lori Parks (who visited IU last year as our Ralph L.
Collins Memorial Lecturer) has written a play that truly espouses her
vision. "History-the destruction and creation of it through theater pieces
and how Black people fit into all of this-is my primary concern."

Meet the Foundling Father, an African American man dressed as Abraham
Lincoln as he works the Hall of Wonders allowing tourists of all kinds to
"assassinate" him over and over. He is quite chummy with the regulars. As
THE AMERICA PLAY dissects Abraham Lincoln's story it opens up a great hole
in our culture. This is an opportunity to see what's in the hole and share
in a truly unique theatrical experience.

Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, THE AMERICA PLAY opens Friday, March
27, at 7:30 p.m. and continues Saturday, March 28, and Tuesday through
Saturday, April 4.

In addition to the performance, we invited you to Circle Sunday. This
Sunday, March 29, Professor Marlon M. Bailey will present "Buried History in
THE AMERICA PLAY." Circle Sunday takes place at 3:00 p.m. Sunday March 29 in
the Wells-Metz Theatre. This event is free and open to anyone. We hope you
will spread the word.

No matter what performance you see, we invited you back Tuesday, March 31,
after the show for a talk-back with the cast and director (maybe a designer
or two) where you can ask questions and share your thoughts about the show.

Ticket prices range from $12-$20. For ticket information call the IU
Auditorium Box Office at 855-1103 or Order tickets online at
theatre.indiana.edu.

For more information about the show, meet the cast, see the press release
and hear an interview with director Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe and actor Jamaal
McCray, just click on this link
http://theatre.indiana.edu/productions/2008/lntdc/7america/index.html


See you there!

Another Letter From Mimi

Dear Scholars,

The newsletter staff invite you to share your community service and volunteer experiences. Were you inspired or deeply moved by someone? Did you have a "life-altering" or "eye-opening" experience? Did you make life-long friends or find a career path? In other words, how did your community service and volunteer experience impact your life? You have complete freedom with the content and your story can be as short as 100 words or less. (Feel free to write more than 100 words, but try to limit to 250 words.)Please, send your stories to Mimi Attenoukon at miatteno@indiana.edu Please copy and paste "HHSP Student Newsletter -- Community Service Stories" in the subject line.

Thanks for your time and cooperation.
Best wishes,

Mimi

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month - Annual Creative Writing Contest 2009

"The Many Meanings of Diversity: Challenges, Paradoxes, and Opportunities"

Deadline for Submission: Tuesday, March 24, 2009.

The Indiana University Asian Culture Center, with co-sponsorship from the IU
Creative Writing Program, Hutton Honors College, Office of Multicultural
Initiatives, and The Office of Vice President for International Affairs is
proud to announce its annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Creative
Writing Contest.

Who can submit? The contest is open to all IUB undergraduate students.

Contest Theme:
The broad theme for the contest is "The Many Meanings of Diversity:
Challenges, Paradoxes, and Opportunities." We are looking for creative
examinations of issues in ethnicity, race, gender, identity, disability,
age, class, religion, and diversity in the American experience through three
genres in creative writing: short fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction.
This year's theme is meant not only to have the contestants think about the
varied definitions of diversity, but also to examine how these apply or
relate to Asian Americans.


Criteria for Judging and Prizes:
The submissions will be evaluated on the creative quality of their
expressions as they address this topic. Emphasis will be placed on the
literary merit of the pieces in determining the winners.

Prizes for the first, second, and third place winners include:

1st Prize - IPOD Touch (16 GB) plus reading the essay on March 27, 2009

2nd prize - IPOD Nano

3rd prize - $100 Gift card

All winning entries will be posted in the ACC website. The winners will be
announced at the APA Heritage Month Opening Lunch Reception, Friday, March
27, 2009 at 12 noon, Presidents' Room, University Club, Indiana Memorial
Union.

Guidelines:
Deadline for Submission: Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
You may submit your entries to: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. Tenth Street,
Bloomington, IN 47408, fax it to 856-5030 or email to acc@indiana.edu.

You may submit a short story, a poem, or a creative nonfiction* piece. There
will be no separate winners in the three categories. The entries will be
judged by a Creative Writing Program faculty member, who will select the top
three winners irrespective of the genre. You may submit up to one entry for
each category. Each entry should have two title pages as follows: the first
should include the title, author's name, permanent address, phone number,
email address, and include: "Asian Pacific American Heritage Creative
Writing Contest."

The second title page should include the title only. The author's name
should not appear on the manuscript except on the first title page. All
submissions should use a 12-point size and should be typed or printed on a
letter-quality printer. Prose (both creative nonfiction and short
fiction) must be double-spaced and should not exceed 1,000 words; poetry
must be single-spaced should not exceed 25 lines.

* Creative nonfiction is defined as writing that employs literary techniques
and artistic vision usually associated with fiction or poetry
to report on actual persons and events.

Indiana University
ASIAN CULTURE CENTER
807 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47401
(812) 856-5361

Letter from MIMI!

Dear Scholars,

First, I want to thank all those students who have shared with me their achievements or the achievements of their friends. Nonetheless, we want to hear from more of you. With 600 plus students in the program, I am doubtful that only 12 students have made achievements. Please, do not be shy or modest! There is no such thing as a small or insignificant achievement! We want to recognize students who have been have been admitted in a program, received an internship or job offer, received a scholarship or other type of award, have been admitted to graduate, law, medical school, have won competitions, been placed on the Dean's list, and anything else I forgot to mention.

Again, do not be shy or modest! We want to celebrate your achievements! You deserve to be recognized for your efforts!

Second, we realize that many of you are active on campus and in the community. Thus, we want to support and help publicize your participation in athletic events, contests, poetry readings, band performances, dance performances, Little 500 competitions, fund raising efforts, conference presentations, art exhibitions, etc.

Please share your information with us by emailing Mimi Attenoukon at miatteno@indiana.edu Please copy and paste "HHSP Student Newsletter -- Student achievements and activities" in the subject line.

Thanks for your time and cooperation.

Best wishes,
Mimi

How to Answer 10 Tough Interview Questions

Dear Scholars, I just read this CNN article "How to answer 10 tough interview questions". Some of you may have read many books and articles on this matter already. But I still encourage you to read the article because it provides great examples of strong and good responses to these questions. You could use the examples as models when you prepare for future interviews. The link to the article is provided below:

<http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/03/04/cb.answering.tough.interview.questions/index.html>

Happy reading!

Best wishes,
Mimi

Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom

Thursday, March 5th

Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom
2:30-3:30pm in Ballantine Hall 004 Professor Iris López will be discussing
her most recent book, Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for
Reproductive Freedom (Rutgers University Press, 2008)as part of IU's Women's
History Month Lecture Series. Sponsored by Latino Studies and the Office of
Women's Affairs.

Description: In this talk Dr. Lopez will present a comprehensive analysis of
the dichotomous views that have portrayed Puerto Rican women as victims of
sterilization abuse or active agents that exercise complete reproductive
freedom. Drawing upon twenty-five years of research on sterilized Puerto
Rican women from five different families in Brooklyn, New York, she
untangles the interplay between how women make fertility decisions within
their social, economic, cultural, and historical constraints. Professor
López will read a few excerpts from the stories of the women she worked
with, and present her model of reproductive freedom, which transcends
victim/agent debates and proposes a broader definition of reproductive
rights within a feminist anthropological context.

"Mindfulness with Male Youth: Growing Up Mindfully in the Age of Obama."

Thursday, March 5th

"Mindfulness with Male Youth: Growing Up Mindfully in the Age of Obama."
5pm at La Casa (715 E 7th St.)

Join us for a workshop involving strategies to help deal with stresses that
young men experience, including: the pressure to uphold aspects of
conventional masculinity (e.g., stoicism, toughness, competitiveness), as
well as machismo, reactivity, and trauma. This workshop will focus on
meditative practice, the higher development of consciousness,
self-awareness, openness to others, and higher masculine identity
development.

Bio: David Forbes, Ph.D. teaches School Counseling and is
coordinator of the School Counseling program at Brooklyn College/CUNY in New
York. He is the author of Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School Male
Athletes in the Zone (Peter Lang, 2004).

The African American Arts Institute is gearing up for their 2009 Spring Concert Season

The African American Arts Institute is gearing up for their 2009
Spring Concert Season. All of the ensembles are working very hard to give
you the best shows in town! So, make sure you do not miss these exciting
concerts!

The African American Dance Company Spring Concert is April 4, 2009 at 8pm at
the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The African American Choral Ensemble Spring
Concert is April 11, 2009 at the John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium. The
IU Soul Revue Spring Concert is May 2, 2009 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

Tickets for these events are as follows: Adults $17, Students (limit 2 per
ID) & Children $7, for group tickets of 10 or more $15 for Adults and $5 for
Children 12 and under (must be advanced purchase).

For more information please contact the AAAI Marketing Office at
(812)855-5427 or visit our website at www.indiana.edu/~aaai

Indiana University's 59th Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages

June19th - August 14th, 2009

\Bloomington, Indiana
For more information, visit the SWSEEL website:
www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/<http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/>
Or email: SWSEEL@indiana.edu

-Priority applications (for funding purposes) due March 20
-Apply through the SWSEEL website
-All students pay in-state tuition.
-Over 20 hours of weekly instruction
-Complete 1 full academic year of language study in 8 weeks!
-FLAS fellowships and other funding available (see website)

Languages and Levels Offered in 2009:
Azerbaijani 1-2
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian* 1
Czech 1
Georgian 1-2
Hungarian 1
Kazakh 1-2
Macedonian* 1
Mongolian 1
Pashto 1
Romanian* 1
Polish 1
Russian 1-6
Slovene 1
Tajik 1-2
Turkmen 1-2
Uyghur 1-2
Uzbek 1-2
Ukrainian 1

Kaplan Practice Test

For all HHSP sophomores and juniors planning to take practice exams THIS SATURDAY, March 7th, 2009

Dear Scholars,

So that KAPLAN will come prepared Saturday with an accurate count of test materials for everyone, sophomores and juniors planning to take the practice exams need to register. There are 3 ways to register:
1) You can register on-line at www.kaptest.com/practice<http://www.kaptest.com/practice>.
2) You can call 1-800-kaptest.
3) You can email Keely Davenport at Keely.davenport@kaplan.com In your email, please provide the following:
* your name,
* mention that you are HHSP,
* email address,
* and phone number.
If you have any questions, please, contact me, Mimi Attenoukon, at miatteno@indiana.edu

Asian Pacific American Heritage Creative Writing Contest

Submission Deadline: March 24
Contest Theme: The broad theme for the contest is "The Many Meanings of Diversity: Challenges, Paradoxes, and Opportunities." We are looking for creative examinations of issues in ethnicity, race, gender, identity, disability, age, class, religion, and diversity in the American experience through three genres in creative writing: short fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. This year's theme is meant not only to have the contestants think about the varied definitions of diversity, but also to examine how these apply or relate to Asian Americans.
Criteria for Judging and Prizes:
The submissions will be evaluated on the creative quality of their expressions as they address this topic. Emphasis will be placed on the literary merit of the pieces in determining the winners.
Prizes for the first, second, and third place winners include:
1st Prize - IPOD Touch (16 GB) plus (reading their essay at the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month reception on March 27, 2009 at 12 noon, University Club, Indiana Memorial Union.
2nd prize - IPOD Nano
3rd prize - $100 Gift card

All winning entries will be posted in the ACC website. The winners will be announced at the APA Heritage Month Opening Lunch Reception, Friday, March 27, 2009 at 12 noon, Presidents' Room, University Club, Indiana Memorial Union.

Redefinition of Identity

ACC's Over A Cup of Tea presents "Redefinition of Identity," A Lecture and Concert by Magdalen Hsu Li

Sponsored by IU Asian Culture Center in partnership with the Office of Women's Affairs, GLBT Student Services, and Indiana Memorial Union
Date: Thursday, March 5
Time: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Venue: Neal Marshall Black Culture Center Grand Hall, 275 N. Jordan Avenue
Description: Magdalen will be conducting a lecture interspersed with songs that will address how we can begin to raise diversity awareness in ourselves and in our community. She will be performing songs from her newest CD "Smashing the Ceiling." Her songs visually portray what she sees with her painter's eyes while addressing universal themes about identity, spirituality, the search for consciousness, love, loss, and relationships. A graduate of the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design and Berklee College of Music, Magdalen has a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting (Cum Laude) and a Bachelor of Music (Summa Cum Laude) in Songwriting from Berklee College of Music. Reception to follow after the concert.