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).