Welcome back, everyone!

And a special welcome back to Annie, our event adviser who has been in Hong Kong the last semester, and everyone in our general body who is returning back to Columbia this semester.

We are meeting today on the first day of the semester and we are getting geared up to plan some awesome events. We are focusing on health issues this semester, with a forum on Asian-American health.  And of course, don’t forget that this year is our fifteenth anniversary… stay tuned!

Have a wonderful second first day, and see you at our next event.

ZOMG, cultureSHOCK IS TOMORROW!!!111!!!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST, 7PM, ROONE ARLEDGE, IT’S GOING TO BE AN EXPERIENCE YOU’LL NEVER FORGET.

Buy tickets at TIC (general admission - $10) or at Lerner Ramps (VIP - $15 - less than 30 left)!!!

cultureSHOCK 2009: Lost & Found

We are SO pleased to announce the newest members of our board!

Our Webmaster is Yufei Liu, SEAS ‘12.

Our new OCMs are:
Angel Wong
Cindy Gao
Emily Chen
IhnSeon Park
Lucy Wang
Yalan Wu

Check out their bios here!

We, the executive board, are very excited and happy to start working with everyone. And we, the whole board, can’t wait to start working with our general body. It’s gonna be AAAwesome.

Yay AAA 09-10!

P.S. We are definitely hitting the ground running - we are particularly inspired by this article and another article on Angry Asian Man. Columbia University was named Best University or College for AAPI students - and AAA got a special place in the article.

Personally, I love the shout-outs to Aretha, one of our chairs last year, and to Crossroads: AAA’s Asian American leadership conference for high school students. But there is much more mentioned in the article.

But regardless, we’re really pumped up for this year - and we are glad to have such passionate, dedicated and AAAmazing board members collaborating on the board this year!

School is staring up again, which means that AAA is looking for new additions to its board! We are currently accepting applications for the Organizational Committee Members Board.

What is an OCM, you may ask? Go here for an explanation.

Download the application!

Please don’t forget to join us at our General Body Meeting on Sunday, September 13. Check out the details on Facebook.

Incentives: Free food, and viewings of awesome videos.

Leave us a comment if you have any questions, concerns, comments, or simply AAA love.

We are pleased to announce the two newest members of the AAA Board:
Tiffany Chen as our new Social Chair
and
Vivian Lu as our new Historian.
We look forward to working with both Tiffany and Vivian in the upcoming semesters.

Yay!

AAA is pleased to announce the board for the 2009-2010 academic year:

Chair: Kevin Zhai - SEAS ‘12
CC/SEAS/GS Vice Chair: Alysha Chan - SEAS ‘10
Barnard Vice Chair: Ai-Lin Shao - BC ‘11
Secretary: Belle Yan - CC ‘12
Treasurer: Steven Wong - SEAS ‘12
Political Committee Chair: Laura Ly - CC’12
Service Committee Chair: Sahil Shah - SEAS ‘12
Event Adviser: Annie Tan - CC ‘11

We will be interviewing for the historian, social chair, and webmaster positions and we will announce those positions ASAP.

Welcome to the new 2008-2009 school year. Hope everyone’s had a fantastic summer and is well rested. For those who are interested in applying for an OCM position, applications are up at http://aaacolumbia.org/wiki/OCM_Application. The deadline to get them in is Thursday, September 11 at 6, so you better start cranking them out!

After a 2 hour election deliberation marked by tears and laughter, I would like to congratulate the new AAA board of 2008-2009:

Chair - Aretha Choi (BC 2010)

CC/SEAS Vice Chair - Shilpa Vadodaria (SEAS 2010)

BC Vice Chair - Katie Wang (BC 2010)

Secretary - Daniel Nisball (SEAS 2009)

Treasurer - Jeremy Tapp (CC 2011)

Political Chair - Jia Ahmad (CC 2011)

Community Chairs - Lena Fan (CC 2010) & Mei Li Zhou (BC 2011)

Social Chair - Patrick Chang (SEAS 2011)

Publicity Chair - Corinne Fukayama (SEAS 2010)

Historians - Eddie Kang (CC 2011) & Lizzie Shen (CC 2011)

USCC Representative - Evan Omi (CC 2011)

You all have my love. Stay classy.

- Calvin, former Chair

cultureSHOCK: over 500 people attended!

Read our reviews:

cultureSHOCK Aims to Dispel Stereotypes

Asian American Alliance Fights Stereotypes in Annual Showcase

Watch our videos:

Naked Expressions

America’s Next Top Model Minority

Umbrella-AAA

Watch the show:

South Asian Bridalwear Fashion Show & Surprise Bhangra

Columbia Bhangra Team + Breakdancers

Congratulations to the AAA Board of 2007-2008 for doing so so much this year.

What We’ve Done (2007-2008)

You should all be proud of the work you’ve all accomplished.

Now it’s time for the new board to carry on the legacy. The following link contains information on the upcoming AAA Elections:

AAA Elections for the 2008-2009 Board

Link includes information on Elections, Rules, Candidates, and Platforms.

Best of luck to the candidates!