AAA – The Ellipse » Archive for May 2010
HC/SoComm – Iceskating with Alumni
by Jenny Mei, edited by Nina Nim Iceskating With Alumni, hosted by the Historian and Social Committees, was held on April 16th, 2010 at the Oakland Ice Center, a venue traditionally reserved for Broomball Night. It was an opportunity for the AAA committee members of Spring 2010 to mingle and bond with AAA Alumni who had dedicated tremendous time and effort to AAA during their time on cabinet. This was the second alumni event that the … Read entire article »
Filed under: AAA Events, Alumni, Featured, Spring 2010
AAA Issues and IJM Benefit Gala
by Dao Nguyen, edited by Nina Nim On Thursday, April 8th, 2010, the Issues Committee hosted a benefit gala with the International Justice Mission (IJM) campus chapter in an effort to bring awareness to sex trafficking issues in Southeast Asia. A local Chinatown restaurant catered the event – offering an abundance of delicious shrimp dumplings, shumai, and egg tarts for guests to enjoy. Issues committee member, Angela Lee, emceed the night and introduced the first performer, Yi … Read entire article »
Filed under: AAA Events, Featured, Spring 2010
TECHNO LAN PARTY (LAN B4 TIME)
by Jennifer Jiang, edited by Nina Nim On Saturday, April 23, 2010 , the Technology (Techno) committee hosted its semesterly LAN party from 4pm to 10pm in Dwinelle. Every semester when Techno hosts this gathering of computers, games, and people, they exceed our expectations. There were three tournaments on the eventful Saturday: Nintendo Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Starcraft, and Counterstike 1.6 5v5. The tournament entry fee this semester was free as compared to a fee of $2 per … Read entire article »
Filed under: AAA Events, Featured, Spring 2010
CS Penny Wars
by Jennifer Jiang, edited by Dao Nguyen From Monday, March 8th to Friday, March 12th, our Community Service (CS) committee held AAA’s biannual penny wars, a competition between families. The rules of penny war are as follows: pennies, dollars and checks are counted as positive points towards your family according to their monetary value. Silver coins are counted as negative points also according to their monetary value. In order to win, each family would want to … Read entire article »
Filed under: AAA Events, Featured, Spring 2010