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Dr. Mark Schlissel 
@DrMarkSchlissel

Our @UMich faculty change the world 
& save lives through their work. Profs. 
Rosina Bierbaum & Joseph Ryan, this 
year’s recipients of the President’s 
Awards for Public Engagement, have 
used their expertise to shape policies on 
climate change & child welfare

verbaSCUM thapsus
@greatmullein

Do we think Umich will 
charge me the replacement 
fee on my Mcard from 5 
years ago

The black sheep michigan
@blacksheepumich

I would rather lick the seat of 
a bursley baits than write an 8 
page research paper

UMich Ecology and 
Evolutionary Biology 
@UMichEEB

GO BLUE HAIL to @jillianmmyers for her 
@umichgradschool 2019 Outstanding GSI 
Award! Jill: “This makes three years in a 
row that an EEB graduate student has won 
this award! I think the department is doing 
something right.”

Sitarhero79 
@sitarhero79

Lol. I remember back in the 
day when those squirrels 
would straight up steal my 
bagel on the quad.

Best Michigan Dining 
@Umichbroccoli

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.

