AAA – The Ellipse » Archive for March 2010
Crafts, Crafts, Crafts with Senior Citizens!
by Rowena Feng, edited by Dao Nguyen On March 13, 2010 the Community Service committee brought together many AAA members to help lift the spirits of many senior citizens at Strawberry Creek Lodge in Berkeley. The room was filled with eager members who were ready to spend four hours of their time with senior citizens. The day started with some beautifully played piano and guitar performed by talented AAA members, followed by many gifted singers singing Disney … Read entire article »
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Spirit Week – Family Pride!
by Jenny Mei, edited by Nina Nim There’s no better way to display AAA spirit and family pride than by going head to head with other families during AAA’s Spirit Week. Spirit Week, hosted by the Public Relations Committee this semester from March 8th to March 12th, 2010, was a platform for all members to compete in a light atmosphere with a little competitive edge. Besides battling it out everyday with pennies and checks for our … Read entire article »
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Spring Formal: Casino Royale
by Rowena Feng, edited by Patrick Lee On March 19th 2010, the Asian American Association’s Social Committee hosted one of the largest dances of the Spring semester on the UC Berkeley campus. Before this one night of fun and excitement, the Social Committee spent most of their time in the Dwinelle Hall. Why? For prop making, of course! The social committee, with the help of members from other committees, met from Monday to Friday for several weeks starting at 7PM to prop make for this huge event. Everyone spent endless … Read entire article »
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CS/IRC: Berkeley Project
by Nina Nim, edited by Patrick Lee More than 80 AAA members showed up bright and early on Saturday, February 27th, to attend the Berkeley Project joint event planned by the Community Service (CS) and Internal Relations Committees (IRC). The Berkeley Project is a student organization created with the goal of ensuring that Cal students have a chance to contribute to improving the city of Berkeley. The Berkeley Project strives to hold project days every semester … Read entire article »
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We Are Family!
by Charlie Hadinata, edited by Patrick S Lee Every semester, a new Internal Relations Committee is formed, and with new “parents” come new families. This semester, IRC Family Night took place in none other than Dwinelle Hall on Friday, February 5th. The main lobby was crowded with AAA members trying to decide which family they wanted to join based on the parents’ mini biography, holiday-based party theme, or enthusiastic attempts to attract potential children. Decisions, Decisions!!! … Read entire article »
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Beginning of Semester Banquet
by Brandon Matthews On February 11th 2010, AAA’s Cabinet hosted the Spring 2010 Beginning of Semester Banquet. All of the committees from AAA crowded the stage so graciously provided to them by Sun Hong Kong in anticipation of the exciting skits to come. Andrew Fung, chair of SoComm Fall ’05, AAA Secretary Spring ’06, and AAA President Spring ’08, was one of the many AAA alumni in attendance and the main guest speaker before the committees performed their skits. He gave a very funny, yet insightful, … Read entire article »
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Broomball!
by Alan Huynh, edited by Dao Nguyen It was an intense night as the members of AAA battled for the title of broomball champ! Broomball—the event that all AAA members agree is the one you have to go to—is a tough but fun game played with sticks, ice, and two balls. It’s like hockey…without the skates! Running all over the ice were the families formed just the night before: ChinPangZee in purple, Eric Shin in yellow, NC-17 … Read entire article »
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Burn, Baby, Buuuurn!!! – Devo/SoComm Bonfire
by Patrick Lee On Saturday, 20 February 2010, AAA’s Development and Social Committees collaborated to put on their annual bonfire event at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. The night was ominously dark and chilly, but spirits were high. This semester’s bonfire was the first big event put on by any of the committees, so people were especially excited to have the chance to hang out and meet new members. Members met up at the Underhill parking lot … Read entire article »
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AAA First General Meeting
by Dao Nguyen AAA kicked off its Spring 2010 semester with an amazing First General Meeting on February 2, 2010 in Dwinelle. True to AAA tradition, Cabinet put together a committee introduction and a hilarious skit themed “Avatar: A Bad Romance”. Cabinet worked hard during the first two weeks of the academic semester during “crunch time”, a term well known within cabinet as a period of hard work, determination, and very little sleep. Director of First Gen … Read entire article »
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