Asian Awareness Week ‘09
Come join members of the Asian Culture and Awareness Association each day during the week of October 26-30 in learning more about various Asian cultures and issues:
Monday, Oct. 26 – Make-Your-Own Sushi, 900 Room, 3:30-5 pm
Tuesdsay, Oct. 27 – The Journey Beyond Me: Desperate Economic Conditions and the Filipino Family, 900 room, 9 pm
Wednesday, Oct. 28 – Movie Night: Gran Torino, Belk Lawn, Rain Location: Hance Auditorium, 9 pm
Thursday, Oct. 29 – Speaker on “Ahmadiyya: The Struggle for Equal Righst in Indonesia,” Chambers Room 2164, 7 pm
Friday, Oct. 30 – Benefit Dinner for Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), Lily Chambers Gallery, 6:30-8:30 pm

Might help contextualize reading for 19 October.

From The Chronicle of Higher Education

We may encourage students to set goals, follow through, and leave a legacy involving an arts festival or a new sorority. However, if we support the student who engages in a similar process involving issues of social change, it can be perceived as politically charged behavior. If, for example, a student lobbies for a publication on the experience of women of color, suddenly her behavior is called activism.

So what do I do with this dissonance? Some would do away with advocacy positions like mine. Others are still waiting for me to take down the Man. As I see it, at a time when many college educators are concerned about developing the “whole student,” our role is to support students’ interests, even when those interests lead them to activism. Why shouldn’t students have opportunities for the practical application of what they learn in the classroom? How radical is that, really? It’s not as if we’re advocating the revolution.

Read the whole article.