Shansi will welcome Professor of History and Director of Asian American Studies at Cornell University Gary Okihiro as part of their distinguished lecture series this Saturday.
Okihiro will deliver a lecture entitled "Whispered Silences: Japanese-Americans and World War II." Okihiro's latest book, by the same name, is available to students in the Shansi office.
Okihiro is a well-known scholar of Asian-American history and studies. He has written books about farming and community life in the California Santa Clara Valley as well as the anti-Japanese movement in Hawaii.
Both works received the Associate for Asian-American Studies Outstanding Book Award.
Before Okihiro's lecture junior Stephanie Fong and Jane Jee-Eun Kim will present a dramatic reading of letters written by two Japanese-American students during World War II.
The authors of the letters were probably 12 to 14 years old, and they were writing from relocation and evacuation centers created for Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Fong and Kim created the dramatic reading with the help of their Asian-American History colloquium.
The program begins at 2 pm in Bosworth Hall.
It is once again that time of year when senior class officers start collecting money for the annual senior gift to the College.
When a student enrolls in college, he or she pays a $200 matriculation fund which is returned in full to that student at the end of his or her college career. Senior Class President Serjio Acevedo and Vice President Diepiriye Kuku are encouraging each senior to donate as little as $1 of the money they receive to the senior gift fund.
Acevedo and Kuku do not have one specific idea in mind regarding where to contribute the money.
"We're really working with the input of the senior class on this topic," Acevedo said. "We want to put the decision in their hands."
In past years seniors' money went to such things as the Low-Income Student Emergency Loan Fund, a plaque for Tappan Square's Memorial Arch and the Emergency Financial Aid Fund. This year each student will receive a ballot upon which they can write where they'd like their money to be contributed. The five most popular selections will then be voted upon.
Acevedo and Kuku do not have a projected monetary goal, though Acevedo hopes that this year's level of contribution will exceed those of the past.
"For us, this whole thing is more about participation than the amount of money raised," Acevedo said. "Last year only 23 percent of seniors contributed money, but that added up to $11,000. the year befor that 26 percent donated money, and $5500 was raised. It's really all over the place. . . I'd just like this year's class to beat the high of a 26 percent participation rate. All it would take is for each student to contribute a dollar."
Class officers will meet next week to discuss goals and contribution ideas. Results of the senior gift fund-raising effort will be announced after spring break.
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Shansi brings Okihiro this weekend
Senior Gift cam-paign kicks off
Volume 125, Number 17; March 7, 1997
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