Minutes for Sunday, October 27, 2002

Shayla Titley’s announcements: Expose multicultural Trinity students to multicultural prospective (preview) students. Saturday, November 9, Creative Arts Night and afterwards party @ VSC. We are going to utilize the cultural houses e.g. ping-pong @ the house one day. If you host you don’t have to give them your code, they get a temporary one. The prospective students will be busy all day so they shouldn’t be in your room the whole time. Just provide a place to sleep. She will send us emails if you want to help out shayla.titley@trincoll.edu

Monday, October 28 @ 7pm in the Washington Room. Gabriela Lecture. Every year, over a quarter million women and children are exported from the Phillipines as slaves. The problem pervades much of Asia and other countries. Through this lecture we can find out what we can do about this important issue.

NIGHTFIRE
PROMOTE. SPREAD THE WORD. EMAIL. CALL. IM. Like ALLISON, APPROACH PERFECT STRANGERS (but don’t accept their candy).

“Model Minority” Discussion
Encountering stereotypes. How can me make this a more comfortable campus environment for people of color?
Daily Jolt: a totally free speech forum? The paradox of anonymous postingsyou can feel comfortable to say anything you want, but at the risk of offending/hurting/slandering others. One idea: anonymity does not necessarily hamper freedom of speech. Another: anonymity frees a person from the consequences of what they say. Perhaps free speech should be about openness, not anonymity. Or maybe, you should be responsible for your right to free speechyou should be held responsible for what you say. Repressing true attitudes and emotions does not solve the problem. Outright hate speech does not solve a person’s conflict. Conflict mediation can be a possible solution. In campus safety’s records, in fact, nowhere on campus are our hate crimes recorded. Some of us feel that Trinity’s administration is overtly concerned over their image.

Sunday, November 3 at 5pm Alumni Lounge 2^nd Floor Mather MAC meeting. President Hersch will be in attendance if you would like to express your concerns.

*November 8, 2002. AASA Celebrating Diwali(Indian New Year/Festival of Light) @ the House. Dinner and entertainment.
*November 17, 2002 BIG Diwali celebration at UCONN. If interested in attending or even performing contact shikha.gulati@trincoll.edu
*As of 10/28/02 about half of the original AASAssins are still in the game.

Reading of I am
I am…10/27/02

I am discontent with current affairs as I see them
I am stressin’
I am still mad from last week because I still don’t know who is trying to kill me and now I don’t know if I’m dead or not!
I am attending Trinity College
I am mad, tired, and anxious
I am not Adam Pangilinan
I am suffering from acute slacking
I am enjoying these cookies
I am a breakfast cereal, possibly corn flakes or fruit loops, depending on which side of the bed I wake up this morning
I am sleepy
I am the girl next door
I am not a stereotype
I am really likin’ this cookie!
I am proud to be Asian
I am glad to be at AASA tonight
I am working my ass off to get in the study abroad program I want so I can spend next year in Japan
I am a princess
I am excited about going off campus this weekend and for Halloween! :0)
I am between hot and cold
I am the REAL Adam
I am the person with limitless power
I am free
I am definitely back to being me
I am feeling like smiling
I am happy that we won our game
I am madly in love with the song “No Letting Go” by Wayne Wonder
I am worried about anyone who’s stressed out
I am thankful that I get to live and breathe every day
We are AASA