The ASC site is a bit functional...
It's been online for a while, actually, I just haven't had too much time to update it. I still have a bit on my to do list, including a lot of the multimedia content and scheduling information. After that is cleaning up a lot of the format, but otherwise it's a pretty good indicator of its future direction.
My intention is that your presidents and secretaries can more directly inform you of the going-ons of ASC, so having it pull directly from this blogspot makes it easy for them to offer you content.
I hope you like it, and if you don't I offered a link to Mark's old site on the home page.
Visit it at http://www.wm.edu/so/asianstudentcouncil
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
ASC Welcome Back BBQ + Field Day = ASC Tailgate!
After all the meticulous planning for the ASC BBQ throughout the summer and through the start of the semester - it was sad to see it go down the drain (well, not all of it) due to the ferocious "hurricane" Hannah. That hurricane was a total joke but it did leave the grounds sufficiently wet and I'm sure no one would have wanted to sit/play on wet grass.
So after very last minute planning, ASC BBQ was transformed into ASC Tailgate. Personally, I did not expect to have such a good turn out for such a last minute planned event and lack of publicity (moral of the story..? jk....) But in the end I think around 70 people showed up! A lot of familar faces and also quite a few new people as well, which was fantastic. Most of the food was gone by 5:30 and overall, I think everyone had a relatively good time, so thanks everyone for showing up! Special shoutout to everyone that came to help out :]
Some things to watch out for next year:
- Book a rain location
- Buy more drinks, cookies and chips
Right now the ASC Exec Board have started the outline of our annual Date Auction. It's our biggest fundraiser (our only one actually) for the whole academic year. Most of the proceeds will be used to hold the Winter Formal, which is going to be at the end of November. 10% of the money will raise will go to charity.
More to come on the Date Auction!
So after very last minute planning, ASC BBQ was transformed into ASC Tailgate. Personally, I did not expect to have such a good turn out for such a last minute planned event and lack of publicity (moral of the story..? jk....) But in the end I think around 70 people showed up! A lot of familar faces and also quite a few new people as well, which was fantastic. Most of the food was gone by 5:30 and overall, I think everyone had a relatively good time, so thanks everyone for showing up! Special shoutout to everyone that came to help out :]
Some things to watch out for next year:
- Book a rain location
- Buy more drinks, cookies and chips
Right now the ASC Exec Board have started the outline of our annual Date Auction. It's our biggest fundraiser (our only one actually) for the whole academic year. Most of the proceeds will be used to hold the Winter Formal, which is going to be at the end of November. 10% of the money will raise will go to charity.
More to come on the Date Auction!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
9/1/08 Minutes!
Whatsup everyone. This post is just announcing the minutes and informing those who weren't there with us about what happened and what we talked about. Here it goes.
Welcome to the First ASC Meeting of the Year 2008-2009!
Fellow ASC heads and organization leaders introduced themselves, as well as the new faces such as the freshmen and transfers. I believe it could have been a record turnout for ASC.
We then presented the ASC mission statement, which can also be found in the ASC website - http://web.wm.edu/so/asianstudentcouncil/about/index.html -
First topic: ASC BBQ + Field Day
Date:Saturday, September 6, 2008
Time:1:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:Yates Field
We asked all of the organizations within ASC to donate $20 for the event. Previously, the organizations helped us out by bringing dishes, but we believed that a simple donation would be ultimately cheaper and more efficient.
Grilling time starts at 12 and lasts until 2:30. there were 10 spots for 5 shifts at the grill, and were all filled up within about 7 minutes! talk about dedication.
here are the shifts:
12:00 - 12:45 Juae, Thuy, Mike
12:30 - 1:15 Ray, Preston
1:00 - 1:45 Sam Davis, Mike
1:30 - 2:15 Steven, Amanda
2:00 - 2:45 Uriah, Soojin
Setup Crews/Cleanup Crews
ASC Exec Board, Sonam, Usmaan, Agatha, Kevin, Kang, Justin, Bryan Neva, Esther, Kristen, Adam Wong.
*Also, people are always welcome to help out either for setup or cleanup. Besides, what can be more fun?
There will be an activities meeting for several people to manage the activities and decide what is best for everybody and what will provide the most fun. If anyone is interested, please email bjyoo@wm.edu (Ben Yoo) and he will definitely get everyone together for brainstorming and also putting things down on paper.
NEXT TOPIC
The Persian Student Organization has requested becoming part of ASC. We presented the idea to the other organizations, and have given them until next meeting to vote on the inclusion of PSO into ASC. ASC Orgs, please have your answer by the next meeting. PSO will be present in the next meeting to introduce themselves as well.
Third Topic
Other Upcoming Activities:
Date Auction – Oct. 19
iLL-literacy – Nov. 1
Winter Formal – Nov. 22
Last Topic:
We have moved the meeting time for ASC to 7pm in Washington 305. ASC will meet bi-monthly, with reminder emails prior to each meeting.
That's it. Hope everyone enjoyed the meeting, and for those who couldn't come, we hope to see you next time. Till then, enjoy the school year! :)
ASC
Welcome to the First ASC Meeting of the Year 2008-2009!
Fellow ASC heads and organization leaders introduced themselves, as well as the new faces such as the freshmen and transfers. I believe it could have been a record turnout for ASC.
We then presented the ASC mission statement, which can also be found in the ASC website - http://web.wm.edu/so/asianstudentcouncil/about/index.html -
First topic: ASC BBQ + Field Day
Date:Saturday, September 6, 2008
Time:1:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:Yates Field
We asked all of the organizations within ASC to donate $20 for the event. Previously, the organizations helped us out by bringing dishes, but we believed that a simple donation would be ultimately cheaper and more efficient.
Grilling time starts at 12 and lasts until 2:30. there were 10 spots for 5 shifts at the grill, and were all filled up within about 7 minutes! talk about dedication.
here are the shifts:
12:00 - 12:45 Juae, Thuy, Mike
12:30 - 1:15 Ray, Preston
1:00 - 1:45 Sam Davis, Mike
1:30 - 2:15 Steven, Amanda
2:00 - 2:45 Uriah, Soojin
Setup Crews/Cleanup Crews
ASC Exec Board, Sonam, Usmaan, Agatha, Kevin, Kang, Justin, Bryan Neva, Esther, Kristen, Adam Wong.
*Also, people are always welcome to help out either for setup or cleanup. Besides, what can be more fun?
There will be an activities meeting for several people to manage the activities and decide what is best for everybody and what will provide the most fun. If anyone is interested, please email bjyoo@wm.edu (Ben Yoo) and he will definitely get everyone together for brainstorming and also putting things down on paper.
NEXT TOPIC
The Persian Student Organization has requested becoming part of ASC. We presented the idea to the other organizations, and have given them until next meeting to vote on the inclusion of PSO into ASC. ASC Orgs, please have your answer by the next meeting. PSO will be present in the next meeting to introduce themselves as well.
Third Topic
Other Upcoming Activities:
Date Auction – Oct. 19
iLL-literacy – Nov. 1
Winter Formal – Nov. 22
Last Topic:
We have moved the meeting time for ASC to 7pm in Washington 305. ASC will meet bi-monthly, with reminder emails prior to each meeting.
That's it. Hope everyone enjoyed the meeting, and for those who couldn't come, we hope to see you next time. Till then, enjoy the school year! :)
ASC
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
ASC Welcome Back BBQ/Field Day and...
HI EVERYONE!
HOPEFULLY EVERYONE IS HAVING A KICKASS SUMMER SO FAR & KEEPING COOL, CAUSE IT IS HAWT!
yeah, i just spelt hot, hawt..
Anyways, your amazing ASC exec board have already started planning for the amazing events next semester. We thought it would be nice to move the planning to the blog for more discussion; totally opened for suggestions, criticism, random comments whatever. It is probably easier for the exec board to carry discussions here instead of getting 10 page emails.
First event of the year is the ASC Welcome Back BBQ + Field Day...(and potential after party cough). It will be held on Saturday Sept. 6, 12-6 PM @ Yates Field.
This is a bit of a summary from the first email I sent out, merged with the comments I got back:
People: I think we have all to a agreement that we are going to try to make this as BIG as possible. It should be a great opportunity for everyone to get together and just chillax, talk about summer flings whatever. One of the major problems we are running into is estimating how many people we anticipate to come. TJ said around 60 people showed up last year (coming and going, not all at once). I want to aim for 100 people but I am not sure if this is a over-estimate or what. So if anyone else has a good...grasps of how many people would show up, that would be great. Also, since we are obviously going to try and target the freshmen class, we need the freshmen to actually come out. Did any of you guys go to any ASC events as freshmen? Cause I didn't...
Ben Yoo came up with a pretty sweet idea for freshmen - we can have sort of a buddy system going on, assigning a active ASC member (or whoever wants a freshmen i guess) to a freshmen (that they can facebook stalk/already know) and drag them along to the event. We all know how shy they are, so this is just so that they feel a big more comfortable going to a random BBQ.
FOOD: The usual list of Burgers (with Buns), Hot dogs (with Buns), Salad/Coleslaw, Potato Chips/Other junk food and of course having vegetarian burgers and hot dogs. If there's something else people want, please drop a note or something. (I just thought of cookies. we all like cookies right?)
In the past, every organization has contribute with a type of food. I want to continue with this tradition and I don't think it should be too expensive. However, Ben mentioned that because the BBQ will be a bigger event than previous years, each organization might not have money to contribute, because it isn't in their planned budget. I think most organizations should have spare money though, because we all know student organizations can't really depend only on the money the school gives. Once we have a estimate of how many people, we can have a better estimate with how much the food is going to cost. I don't think each organization will have to pay too much for food, but we can set a budget and if it goes over that budget, ASC can probably reimburse. I think that sounds fair?
Grill Team/Clean-up Team/Staff: We don't want one person to do all the dirty work, so we'll try to get people to sign up for one or the other in advance. There's only 5 exec members and we are going to need help with this.
Field Day: We have a whole field, so this can be opened up to suggestions. Mike & Ben are going to plan the activities for the field day, but obviously it should be something most people want to participate. Can be a tournament whatever. Preferably the activity would not need too much equipment.
After party: I think most of us want a after party, different atmosphere, freshmen will probably be interested. If enough people are interested, ASC will try their best to make a after party happen. Biggest concern - venue. Where can we hold such after party? Is there anyone willing to host a after party? We can always try to book tazewell but from previous experiences, that hasn't always turned out that well because the space is too big and it feels empty and people are awkward. And if its off campus, we will need drivers. Once we figure out a venue, we can figure out about...other finer details.
SUGGESTIONS/COMMENTS PLEASE! The more feedback we get, the better event we can plan!
I hope everyone is excited, cause ASC is coming back with a bang. get stoked people.
HOPEFULLY EVERYONE IS HAVING A KICKASS SUMMER SO FAR & KEEPING COOL, CAUSE IT IS HAWT!
yeah, i just spelt hot, hawt..
Anyways, your amazing ASC exec board have already started planning for the amazing events next semester. We thought it would be nice to move the planning to the blog for more discussion; totally opened for suggestions, criticism, random comments whatever. It is probably easier for the exec board to carry discussions here instead of getting 10 page emails.
First event of the year is the ASC Welcome Back BBQ + Field Day...(and potential after party cough). It will be held on Saturday Sept. 6, 12-6 PM @ Yates Field.
This is a bit of a summary from the first email I sent out, merged with the comments I got back:
People: I think we have all to a agreement that we are going to try to make this as BIG as possible. It should be a great opportunity for everyone to get together and just chillax, talk about summer flings whatever. One of the major problems we are running into is estimating how many people we anticipate to come. TJ said around 60 people showed up last year (coming and going, not all at once). I want to aim for 100 people but I am not sure if this is a over-estimate or what. So if anyone else has a good...grasps of how many people would show up, that would be great. Also, since we are obviously going to try and target the freshmen class, we need the freshmen to actually come out. Did any of you guys go to any ASC events as freshmen? Cause I didn't...
Ben Yoo came up with a pretty sweet idea for freshmen - we can have sort of a buddy system going on, assigning a active ASC member (or whoever wants a freshmen i guess) to a freshmen (that they can facebook stalk/already know) and drag them along to the event. We all know how shy they are, so this is just so that they feel a big more comfortable going to a random BBQ.
FOOD: The usual list of Burgers (with Buns), Hot dogs (with Buns), Salad/Coleslaw, Potato Chips/Other junk food and of course having vegetarian burgers and hot dogs. If there's something else people want, please drop a note or something. (I just thought of cookies. we all like cookies right?)
In the past, every organization has contribute with a type of food. I want to continue with this tradition and I don't think it should be too expensive. However, Ben mentioned that because the BBQ will be a bigger event than previous years, each organization might not have money to contribute, because it isn't in their planned budget. I think most organizations should have spare money though, because we all know student organizations can't really depend only on the money the school gives. Once we have a estimate of how many people, we can have a better estimate with how much the food is going to cost. I don't think each organization will have to pay too much for food, but we can set a budget and if it goes over that budget, ASC can probably reimburse. I think that sounds fair?
Grill Team/Clean-up Team/Staff: We don't want one person to do all the dirty work, so we'll try to get people to sign up for one or the other in advance. There's only 5 exec members and we are going to need help with this.
Field Day: We have a whole field, so this can be opened up to suggestions. Mike & Ben are going to plan the activities for the field day, but obviously it should be something most people want to participate. Can be a tournament whatever. Preferably the activity would not need too much equipment.
After party: I think most of us want a after party, different atmosphere, freshmen will probably be interested. If enough people are interested, ASC will try their best to make a after party happen. Biggest concern - venue. Where can we hold such after party? Is there anyone willing to host a after party? We can always try to book tazewell but from previous experiences, that hasn't always turned out that well because the space is too big and it feels empty and people are awkward. And if its off campus, we will need drivers. Once we figure out a venue, we can figure out about...other finer details.
SUGGESTIONS/COMMENTS PLEASE! The more feedback we get, the better event we can plan!
I hope everyone is excited, cause ASC is coming back with a bang. get stoked people.
E-Board Participation Check
This post is to check if everybody on the e-board got ben yoo's email suggesting meetings through blogger. If you got the email and are up for doing this, please comment saying so. i.e. "aye", "check", "yes", "here", "present", "wtf", etc.
if there are significant number of people participating, we'll proceed with actual meeting discussions :)
Deadline: July 2nd (1 week)
if there are significant number of people participating, we'll proceed with actual meeting discussions :)
Deadline: July 2nd (1 week)
Monday, April 21, 2008
ASC Office Spring Cleaning 08'
Today was the first spring cleaning of the ASC Office since...who knows? It must have been a long time because that place is just screaming for some organization (ahaha...). Funny thing is, I am not a psycho-anal, organizational neak-freak but stepping inside that office gave me migraines every time...possibly from all the dust and scary disease's cooking in there. So I was so looking forward to this cleanup meeting for realzz.
We purposely scheduled the clean-up during the normal meeting time so that no one can really make a excuse not to be there. I have no idea why I thought we can organize that office in a hour, there was so much shit to toss out. The amount of eating utensils/plates/napkins etc that have built up over the years was OVERWHELMING. We probably have enough to last all 6 organizations for 3 years or something. No jokes. The grossest stuff we found had to be that Gatorade bottle still have full with mold, the bag of rice that had to be like 10 years old and lots of expired snacks...mmmm
I haven't figured out what is the best way to organize things on such a large scale. It's hard when people leave every year and the transitions are done in such a hurry. Things get lost in translation and basically the piles and piles of stuff in the office seems to be all the result of it. It was great seeing pictures, programs of the events clubs have held in the past...like a bizarre time machine sucking you in. I found pamphlets of ASC when it was actually called Asian Student Union where they had all these different clubs (for example VSA wasn't formed yet) which was just weird to think of.
One day maybe the office could actually be turned into a office instead of a storage space, something Ben Yoo really wants to do. Right now it looks a bit difficult, but maybe one day...
I guess it is a bit of the Asian influence within me...cleaning to greet the new year and hoping for a better start. Fingers crossed.
We purposely scheduled the clean-up during the normal meeting time so that no one can really make a excuse not to be there. I have no idea why I thought we can organize that office in a hour, there was so much shit to toss out. The amount of eating utensils/plates/napkins etc that have built up over the years was OVERWHELMING. We probably have enough to last all 6 organizations for 3 years or something. No jokes. The grossest stuff we found had to be that Gatorade bottle still have full with mold, the bag of rice that had to be like 10 years old and lots of expired snacks...mmmm
I haven't figured out what is the best way to organize things on such a large scale. It's hard when people leave every year and the transitions are done in such a hurry. Things get lost in translation and basically the piles and piles of stuff in the office seems to be all the result of it. It was great seeing pictures, programs of the events clubs have held in the past...like a bizarre time machine sucking you in. I found pamphlets of ASC when it was actually called Asian Student Union where they had all these different clubs (for example VSA wasn't formed yet) which was just weird to think of.
One day maybe the office could actually be turned into a office instead of a storage space, something Ben Yoo really wants to do. Right now it looks a bit difficult, but maybe one day...
I guess it is a bit of the Asian influence within me...cleaning to greet the new year and hoping for a better start. Fingers crossed.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Updates on the APAS Program
I have great news for everybody in terms of the progress with the Asian Pacific American Studies program initiative.
Professors Leisa Meyers, Jacqui McLendon, Rani Mullen, and Hiroshi Kitamura have all agreed to be on the Faculty Group for APA Studies. We have enough faculty to get started!! Professor Francis Tanglao-Aguas is sending the May seminar proposal so this idea is moving at a lightning quick pace.
I am incredibly excited for things to come in the future...
I am incredibly excited for things to come in the future...
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