Below is a partial list of the accomplishments made possible during the 2007-2008 Academic Year:

For Our Community

1. In 2009, AAA was selected and profiled as one of the “Top Ten Colleges and Universities for AAPI Students” by AngryAsianMan.com and APA for Progress, which listed many of AAA’s achievements from 2006-2009: Best Colleges for AAPI Students: Columbia University
2. The creation of “The Blaaag,” the first and only Asian American blog at Columbia University and now currently and nationally recognized as one of the first and foremost student-run Asian American blogs on the internet.
3. Raised over $1,300 in one night for Asha for Education; a non-profit charity organization that funds educational projects in rural areas of India.
4. Raised over $450 in one night for Columbia University Dance Marathon and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
5. Establishment of the Service Committee.
6. Compiling a comprehensive informational packet detailing the upcoming 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections in relation to Asian Americans.
7. Working with the Asian American Legal Defense Fund on finding and training student volunteers in Poll Monitoring for “Super Tuesday” February 5th elections.
8. Compiled comprehensive list of confirmed precalendered events of all Asian-interest organizations at Columbia University to early detect possible space conflicts.
9. Hosted a dinner and mixer for representatives of 6 schools in the East Coast area as a kickoff for the East Coast Asian American Union conference (ECAASU).
10. Official AAA representation at the 30^th annual Asian American International Film Festival (the longest running AA film festival in the world) by winning the audience award for favorite film.
11. Passed a Resolution for an AAA Cosponsorship Fund for oncampus events.
12. Established sponsorship relations with Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, Citigroup, and the Asia Society for all our future events for the community.
13. Conversed with NYPD captain of the 26th precinct, the heads of Columbia Public Safety, and NYPD officers in numerous meetings on recent bias attacks that have targeted Asian American students.
14. Weekly communication with administration and student groups on recent events related to hate on campus.
15. Held a Community Service interest meeting for our general body in carrying out community service initiatives in New York City.
16. Became involved in the recent hunger strike at Columbia; many of our members became directly involved in a wide variety of different capacities: negotiating between the strikers and the administration, establishing lines of communication between different groups (the general community, the strikers, student government, the administration), leading the vigils for the strike, becoming part of the strike itself, acting as a support team for the strike, and many other roles.
17. Established consistent communication with breakthrough Asian American Hollywood celebrities of “Better Luck Tomorrow,” “Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift,” and “Finishing the Game.”
18. Increased awareness for the NYC public Screening of Justin Lin’s “Finishing the Game,” having over 120 members in attendance to meet the cast and crew of the film. Celebrities and film crew include Roger Fan, Sung Kang, McCaleb Burnett, Josh Diamond, and others.
19. Screened “Made in India” with director Deepti Paul present for a Q&A afterwards. This generated discussion among students on arranged marriages in India.
20. Screened “Journey From the Fall” with director Ham Tran present for a Q&A afterwards. A discussion followed among students on the hidden stories of Vietnamese families post-Vietnam War.
21. Screened “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” to understand the beginning of the Asian American political movement.
22. Screened 3 other films that illustrate the growing presence of Asian Americans in Hollywood cinema.
23. Participated in Columbia University’s “Day Out Against Hate” by helping to produce a series of six 8ft. x 8ft. panels. These panels exhibited the varying aspects of hate and our action against hate.
24. Showcased Asian American student talent at our annual Tea House study break, with over 100 members in attendance.
25. Instituted a campaign to educate and provide good role models for Asian American students of Lafayette High School, which is in the process of being phased out of the New York City school system.
26. Karaoke trip with students at Lafayette High School
27. UCA Meetings
28. Presented an info session and held a mixer for underclassmen students interested in majoring in Asian American studies at Columbia.
29. Begun programming the 2nd annual New York City Asian American Student Conference (NYCAASC) with NYU and other schools in the NYC area.
30. Begun Culture Shock committees, publicity, themes, and sponsorships.
31. Helped Voter Registration for the Korean American League for Civic Action
32. Continued interaction and communication for events with Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
33. Increased communication for possible collaboration with Chinatown Youth Initiatives, one of the largest Asian-interest community service organizations in the New York State.
34. Established presence on YouTube as the forefront organization on student filmmaking regarding Asian American issues: “Asian American” on YouTube
35. Served free Pinkberry smoothies at the annual Glass House Rocks in 2008 while raffling out free Culture Shock tickets.
    
36. Established better communication with our general body; we continue to maintain our policy of open board meetings and we have seen more of our general body members attending this year.
37. Hold town halls for our general body after every board meeting.
38. Began “AAA Office Hours” as a weekly safe space for Asian American students on campus. During these hours, our general body members can come by and meet with a few members of AAA in a laid-back, casual setting. The space has been used as a place to find out more about and volunteer for upcoming events, to learn more about past events, to talk about Asian American issues, or just as a quiet place to study.
39. Invited renowned speaker, Ryan Takemiya, to give a lecture on the relationship between Hip Hop from Asia and Hip Hop created by Asian Americans.
40. Partnered with the Asian Youth Program for AAA’s annual “Carnival for Kids” as a way to mentor young kids abused by domestic violence.
41. Represented Columbia at the 2008 East Coast Asian American Students Union at Cornell (ECAASU)
42. Collaborated with Columbia APAAM, Fordham’s and NYU’s Asian American organizations in hosting the 2nd annual New York City Asian American Student Conference (NYCAASC), drawing over 450 registered attendees
43. Collaborated with the Taiwanese American Students Association for the Chinese Adopted Siblings Program for Youths in NYC (CASPY), drawing over 100 volunteers and young adopted children.
44. Programmed our annual showcase cultureSHOCK | exposure, featuring nationally recognized and world-famous Asian American artists as well as our best student performers at Columbia. This show included Magnetic North, Taiyo Na, Alvin Lau, Kelly Tsai, Penn Atma, CU Bhangra, Manhattan Groove Project, Alice & the Hu, and a South Asian American fashion show featuring designers Samira Atash, Artizan Sarai, and Zehra Hyder. For the first time ever, cultureSHOCK’s $8000 show was funded entirely on cosponsorships and ticket sales; none of AAA’s budget was invested into the event due to the success of our outreach. The show drew in over 500-600 attendees.

Internal Resolutions

1. In 2009, AAA was selected and profiled as one of the “Top Ten Colleges and Universities for AAPI Students” by AngryAsianMan.com and APA for Progress, which listed many of AAA’s achievements from 2006-2009: Best Colleges for AAPI Students: Columbia University
2. Launch of new website under new official domain name of http://www.aaacolumbia.org/
3. Design of new AAA logo.
4. Production of a new AAA 3’ x 5’ banner.
5. Newly revised format for board voting.
6. Revised Mission statement after over 5 years of inactivity.
7. Revised Constitution after over 3 years of inactivity.
8. Revised agenda formats.
9. Creation of 2 new board positions - The Communications Chair and Technical Adviser.
10. Modification of the Academic/Alumni Chair position into the Alumni Relations Chair.
11. Creation of AAA survey for General Body meetings.
12. Creation of AAA event review forms for all events to take place at Columbia.
13. Secured location for all AAA related parties at Tokyo Pop on 104^th and Broadway.
14. Newly typed up initiative regarding OCM recruitment.
15. Modified resource manual for new members.
16. Newly designed website features blogging format so that all members of the board can update without need of HTML knowledge.
17. New website also establishes institutional memory for AAA; encouraging information-keeping that dates back as early as 2004.
18. Establishment of the Service Committee.
19. Establishment of the Intraboard bonding Identity Workshop.
20. Increased diversity within the board to better represent our general body, as well as making 2007-2008 the largest board in the history of AAA.
21. More confirmed precalendered space than any other organization at Columbia.
22. Unprecedented $1000 increase in ABC funding.
23. Passed a Resolution for an AAA Cosponsorship Fund (11.27.07).
24. Profiled on CNN.
25. Profiled on Wikipedia as one of the top student organizations at Columbia University in 2007-2008.
26. Designated as one of the most popular student organizations at Barnard according to the 2007-2008 Sparknotes guide on colleges.
27. One of the selected few student groups highlighted as “one of the top organizations” in the 2008 Columbia Yearbook, the Columbian.
28. Interviewed celebrities Neil Patrick Harris, Christopher Meloni, Kal Penn, and the writers and directors of Harold & Kumar 2 for TheBlaaag.
29. Began “AAA Office Hours” as a weekly safe space for Asian American students on campus. During these hours, our general body members can come by and meet with a few members of AAA in a laid-back, casual setting. The space has been used as a place to find out more about and volunteer for upcoming events, to learn more about past events, to talk about Asian American issues, or just as a quiet place to study.
30. For the first time ever, cultureSHOCK’s $8000 show was funded entirely on cosponsorships and ticket sales; none of AAA’s budget was invested into the event due to the success of our outreach.
31. AAA T-Shirts.
32. Referenced in Wikipedia.
33. Replaced Public Relations Chair with Publicity Chair.
34. Removed Communications and Alumni Relations Chair.
35. Modified election format so that only AAA board members and committee members are eligible to vote.
36. Modified election format so that anyone in the AAA general body are able to attend the elections and participate in the Q&A.
37. Directed and produced three videos: Naked Expressions, America’s Next Top Model Minority, and Umbrella-AAA.
38. For the first time since 2004, AAA has finished the year with a surplus.
39. Due to widespread acclaim for cultureSHOCK, AAA becomes the only organization in recent memory featured in The Columbia Spectator two times consecutively on the front page regarding an oncampus event; the publication both previews (cultureSHOCK Aims to Dispel Stereotypes and reviews (Asian American Alliance Fights Stereotypes in Annual Showcase) cultureSHOCK | exposure.
40. Never before has AAA successfully programmed three 200+ person events (Service Committee: CAPSY, Political Committee: NYCAASC, Social Committee: cultureSHOCK | exposure) within a time span of only three weeks.

Collaborations & Consponsorships

1. In 2009, AAA was selected and profiled as one of the “Top Ten Colleges and Universities for AAPI Students” by AngryAsianMan.com and APA for Progress, which listed many of AAA’s achievements from 2006-2009: Best Colleges for AAPI Students: Columbia University
2. Passed a resolution for an AAA Cosponsorship Fund for our affiliate groups (11.27.07).
3. Designed the website for Club Dimensions, the South Asian organization at Barnard.
4. Worked with the Korean Students Association to have students meet and speak with Jun Choi, the first Asian American mayor of Edison, New Jersey and one of the few Asian Americans in an elected position of the U.S. government.
5. Raised over $400 in one night for Columbia University Dance Marathon and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
6. Helped the United Students of Color Council arrange and publicize their panel event discussing gentrification, especially around the topics of Manhattanville and Chinatown.
7. First ever collaborative joint dinners with Club Zamana, the umbrella South Asian Organization at Columbia.
8. Collaborative joint dinner with the United Students of Color Council, Society Organization of Latinos, and the Black Students Organization.
9. Established a venue for the North Korean Awareness organization at Columbia and their event that raises issues on the current situation in North Korea.
10. Established a venue for the Koreans Students Association’s Date Auction charity event and participated in the Date Auction.
11. Established a venue for the Vietnamese Students Association and cosponsored their screening of “Journey From the Fall” with director Ham Tran present for a Q&A afterwards. This generated discussion among students on the hidden stories of Vietnamese families post-Vietnam War.
12. Cosponsored Organization of Pakastani Students‘ Chamak fashion show event.
13. Cosponsored the Baha’i Club in their event featuring Dr. Joy Degruy Leary & the topic of “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome.”
14. Cosponsored the Student Organization of Latinos in their event discussing the immigration debate.
15. Cosponsored and helped plan with LionPAC on an event featuring Dr. Jonathan Adelman & the topic of Israeli-Asian relationships in today’s world.
16. Cosponsored the North Korean Awareness organization at Columbia and their event that raises issues on the current situation in North Korea.
17. Cosponsored with the World AIDS Organization on establishing World AIDS week at Columbia.
18. Cosponsored with Stand With Us, Israel Va’ad, LionPAC, and Pro-Israel Progressives on their event on Israeli Flying Aid and Global Humanitarian Aid.
19. Cosponsored with AMSA Public Health on their Millennium Project, a group dedicated to eradicating global poverty.
20. Cosponsored with Take Back the Night on their annual event promoting awareness on issues concerning domestic violence and rape.
21. Cosponsored the Student of Color Career Series on their panel on Fellowships and Graduate School.
22. Cosponsored the Oscar Lee Symposium at Columbia University on their conference discussing Columbia University undergraduate research in East and Southeast Asia.
23. Cosponsored the Columbia East Asian Review (CEAR), a peer-reviewed academic journal, on their new online publication.
24. Participated in the Taiwanese American Student Association Interboard Exchange event.
25. Partnered with the Asian Youth Program for AAA’s annual “Carnival for Kids” as a way to mentor young kids abused by domestic violence.
26. Participated in modeling for the Organization of Pakastani Students‘ Chamak fashion show.
27. Helped table and make desserts for Liga Filipina’s Halo Halloween event.
28. Helped in cooking a dish for the Chinese Students Club and their “Action Against Hunger” Benefit Dinner.
29. Helped the Hapa Club in publicizing the Columbia screening of award-winning film “Silences,” which discusses mixed identity.
30. Helped Ahimsa, the Jain students organization at Columbia, in producing a board video for their annual Mahavir Jayanti dinner.
31. Helped CURaas, the South Asian Raas dance team at Columbia, in producing a music video.
32. Participated in Sounds of China’s Karaoke Klash contest (and making it into the final round!).
33. Participated by performing in the Taiwanese American Students Association’s Tea House event.
34. Participated by performing in the annual Tamasha culture show thrown by Club Zamana.
35. Participated in Columbia Community Outreach
36. Helped in cooking a dish for the Columbia Japan Society at their “Noodles of the World” event.
37. Programmed the highly successful “Fear Factor” contest at the Chinese Students Club’s Night Market event.
38. Collaborating with Columbia APAAM, Fordham’s and NYU’s Asian American organizations for the 2nd annual New York City Asian American Student Conference (NYCAASC)
39. Helped Voter Registration for the Korean American League for Civic Action
40. Helped in cooking a dish for the Columbia Japan Society at their “Curry in a Hurry” event.
    
41. Conducted poll-monitoring training and continued interaction and communication for events with Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
42. Increased communication for possible collaboration with Chinatown Youth Initiatives, one of the largest Asian-interest community service organizations in the New York State.
    
43. Begun collaborative work and communication with the Hindu Students Organization and Ahimsa, the Jain organization at Columbia. Started with the Brownscape screening of “Made in India” and will continue to look into collaborative dinner opportunities.
44. Begun collaborative work and communication with the Muslim Students Association, especially with regard to recent campus events at Columbia.
45. Contributed to the first annual Community Arts Initiative at Columbia.
46. Begun collaborative work and communication with Hillel, the Jewish organization at Columbia.
47. Continued consistent and close communication with the Black Students Organization and Society Organization of Latinos.

AAA has also been responsible for programming over 50 events for the student body and collaborating with other student groups on even more, including:

09/02/07 Lerner Auditorium Floor & Cinema | First-Year NSOP Meet & Greet

09/05/07 Lerner Cinema | First-Year Info Session

09/06/07 Lerner East Ramp Lounge | First-Year Info Session

09/07/07 College Walk | Activities Fair

09/09/07 Lerner East Ramp Lounge | First-Year Info Session

09/22/07 Tokyo Pop | Club Party - ASHA

09/23/07 Lerner East Ramp Lounge | Community Service Interest Meeting

09/26/07 Lerner C555 | Alumni Reception

10/03/07 Lerner Cinema | “Finishing the Game” with Hollywood Celebrities/Cast & Crew

10/04/07 Tokyo Pop | *KSA Date Auction

10/07/07 Lerner Broadway Rm | Brownscape: “Made In India” Screening

10/10/07 Lerner Party Space | Tea House Study Break

10/12/07 Low Plaza (outdoor) | *Homecoming Carnival

10/19/07 Brooklyn, NY: Lafayette HS | Meet Lafayette High School Students

10/19/07 Low Plaza (outdoor) | *CSC Night Market: Fear Factor

10/20/07 Lerner Broadway Room | Body Image Workshop

10/27/07 Lerner Party Space | ECAASU Dinner (AAA as host)

10/29/07 Lerner E569 | *Liga Filipina: Halo-Halloween

11/08/07 Hamilton 303 | *USCC Gentrification Event

11/10/07 Lerner Cinema | *Jun Choi, Mayor of Edison, NJ

11/10/07 Lerner C555 | *CSC Intercultural Food Festival

11/16/07 Lerner Party Space | *North Korean Awareness

11/18/07 Lerner Cinema | Film Festival Marathon

11/26/07 Lerner E569 | Asian American Studies Info Session

11/29/07 Lerner C555 | AAABSOLUSCC-ION Identity Dinner

11/30/07 Brooklyn, NY | SAFER Meeting

11/30/07 Lerner Party Space | *SOC Karaoke Klash

12/06/07 Hamilton 517 | *World AIDS ID Panel

12/06/07 Lerner C555 | *OPS Chamak

12/07/07 Lerner Party Space | *TASA Tea House

12/07/07 Lerner Broadway Room | *CJS Noodles of the World

12/07/07 Lerner E569 | *Loving Day “Silences” Screening

12/21/07 Tokyo Pop | Farewell Lounge/Party

01/26/08 Tokyo Pop | ASHA II

01/30/08 Lerner Party Space | Subcommittee Mixer

02/01/08 Lerner E568 | AALDEF Poll Monitoring

02/07/08 Lerner 3rd Floor | Glass House Rocks, Free Pinkberry

02/15-2/16/08 Cornell University | *ECAASU

02/22/08 310 Fayerweather | Chinese American Planning Council

02/22/08 Lerner Party Space | *CJS Curry in a Hurry

02/27/08 Lerner Broadway Room | Hip Hop On Both Sides of the Pacific

02/28/08 Lerner Party Space | *Interboard Exchange

03/05/08 Lerner E568 | Asian American Women Association Mixer

03/27/08 Hamilton 302 | Israeli/Asian Relations Lecture

03/28/08 Brookyln | *UCA Meeting

03/29/08 Cloisters, Manhattan | *Columbia Community Outreach

03/29/08 Offcampus | Karaoke with Lafayette High School Kids

04/06/08 Barnard James Room | CASPY

04/12/08 NYU | NYC AA Student Conference

04/18/08 Lerner Auditorium & Balcony | cultureSHOCK | exposure

04/19/08 420 Bar & Lounge | cultureSHOCK | afterparty

04/26/08 Lerner Broadway Room | AAA Elections

*denotes collaborative or guest participation