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Rosina Bierbaum & Joseph Ryan, this
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used their expertise to shape policies on
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Do we think Umich will
charge me the replacement
fee on my Mcard from 5
years ago
The black sheep michigan
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I would rather lick the seat of
a bursley baits than write an 8
page research paper
UMich Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
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row that an EEB graduate student has won
this award! I think the department is doing
something right.”
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Lol. I remember back in the
day when those squirrels
would straight up steal my
bagel on the quad.
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On 2019-03-27 the dining halls
are disappointing
WOLVE RINE OF THE WE E K
ALEC COHEN/Daily
How do you stay creative
on a traditionally academic
campus?
I struggled a lot this winter
being in primarily studio
classes. The deadline didn’t
care if I was sad or tired
— I was sun deprived and
unmotivated. Color is so
important to me and looking
outside to see such little
contrast between the grey
sky and the grey ground was
tough... Staying creative here
isn’t as hard as I thought it
would be. Being a freshman,
there’s many things to address
through my artwork. It’s just a
year of change and art really
helps me work through it. I
definitely meet many people
who don’t understand that my
studio classes are just as labor
intensive as academic classes,
if not more, but it’s easy to
runaway to North Campus
where everyone gets it.
STAMPS freshman
Rachel Heibel
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UAAO event discusses colonization
United Asian American Organizations event confronts impacts of colonialism
SONIA LEE
Daily Staff Reporter
Wednesday
night
at
the
South Quad Residence Hall Yuri
Kochiyama Lounge, the United
Asian American Organizations
(UAAO) hosted a panel on how
colonialism,
specifically
in
Southeast Asia, has impacted the
Asian/Pacific Islander American
community. Around 50 students
attended
the
event,
titled
“Effects and Representations
of Colonialism: SE Asia,” which
was hosted in collaboration
with the Vietnamese Student
Association,
the
Filipino
American Student Association
and
Burmese
students
on
campus.
Established in 1988, UAAO is
an umbrella consortium whose
member groups include multiple
Asian/Pacific Islander students
organizations on campus. In
addition to acting as a liaison
between these groups, UAAO
hopes to promote the voice of
A/PIA students on campus,
build relationships with other
people of color groups and raise
awareness on A/PIA issues.
The event was discussion-
based,
with
the
UAAO
Programming
Chairs,
LSA
sophomores Fareah Fysudeen
and Cristina Guytingco, showing
attendees clips from films and
video analyses of American films
representing Southeast Asians.
After each clip, students got in
small groups or pairs to discuss
the impact of the films.
One clip students watched, a
YouTube video entitled “Slaying
the Dragon: Reloaded,” was
about the portrayal of Asian
and Asian-American women in
Western films like “Rush Hour
2,” “Memoirs of a Geisha” and
“Charlie’s Angels.”
Guytingco
said
the
portrayal of Asian women in
media continues to be one-
dimensional.
“A lot of the depictions of
South Asian, Asian-American
women is very monolithic, like
we’re this one thing and we’re
not anything else,” Guytingco
said. “It’s like we’re this cool,
edgy,
purple-streak
Asian
character. So there’s not a lot
of complexities of how Asian
women are portrayed.”
The students also examined
“Apocalypse
Now,”
a
film
which uses the war in Vietnam
as its setting and compared it
with Vietnamese film “Cô Ba
Sài Gòn” (“The Tailor”) which
depicts a Vietnamese woman’s
attempt to learn a French style
of tailoring despite her family’s
rejection of anything French
post-colonization.
Fysudeen, who first watched
“Apocalypse Now” in high
school, said what disturbed her
most about the film was its use
of Asian characters to propel
the story of white men.
“It was really, really, I don’t
know, horrifying to me, the
depiction of Asian bodies in
this film,” Fysudeen said. “And
how they were just kind of used
as a device to get to this really
interesting psychology of this
white man.”
Students viewed a YouTube
video, “Apocalypse Now: Crash
Course
Film
Criticism
#8”
of “Apocalypse Now” where
a film analyst discussed the
psychological aspects of the
film, as well as the use of Asian
characters.
Public Policy graduate student
Thom Pham said one part of the
video he appreciated was the
commentator’s
differentiation
between Vietnam itself and the
war that occured in Vietnam. He
noted Vietnam is often used as
an exciting background for the
stories of white people.
“I liked in the video where it
said American War in Vietnam,
because I like to say the War in
Vietnam,” Pham said. “Some
people just refer to the war itself
as ‘Vietnam’ or even just ‘Nam’
when it’s really a country … I
think the movie really was, if
anything, not about Vietnam.
It’s about the test of war and
Vietnam just happened to be the
background. It’s kinda bullshit.”
In a larger group discussion
about the films, Business senior
Kevin
Steward
highlighted
the confusion people feel in
countries which were colonized
by Western powers when it
comes to keeping popular foods,
fashion and trends — which
sometimes
come
from
the
colonizer.