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AA E-Zine: The Zine is a weekly online news and events zine about the SBU / Long Island / metro New York Asian American community. It is produced by students and alumni. Students get academic credit through the Media Minor. Excerpts from the AA E-Zine are also printed in The SB Press and there are specials on SBU TV. Check it out at www.aaezine.org and sign up to get an email telling you when each new issue is released.

[AA]² @ SBU: Student and alumni goals of [AA]² include promoting diversity and leadership training, enabling students to gain employment opportunities and alumni to promote internship opportunities, providing academic and non-academic enrichment opportunities, encouraging and rewarding student activists, sponsoring events, encouraging and promoting alumni support of SBU, and fostering unity among the various Asian and Asian American student groups.

[AA]² SBU Alumni: The alumni network sponsors events and members attend university events to give students networking opportunities with each other and with alumni. They also give talks on leadership and life after the Brook. Monthly events are held just for alumni too - happy hour networking in NYC, sports, music, and family outings - and the annual Homecoming at Wolfstock.

History: EducAsians began in April 2000 when controversy over the screening of The Color of Fear, the award winning provocative documentary on race, led to brainstorming on not only how to resolve the issues that controversy had raised, but how to continue the discussions the film itself had raised.

EducAsians broad goal was education outside of the classroom - teaching Americans about Asians and Asian Americans, teaching Asians about Americans and Asians in the Americas, and most importantly, doing it all within a framework of teaching racial harmony and a love of diversity. Within a year it included [AA]² @ SBU, which was then known as the Asian American Alumni Association, when EducAsians students graduated.

In 2001, when Asian American students decided to run for political offices of Polity, now known as USG, The Statesman, which had been carrying an EducAsians column, refused to include what was written about the election. They later wrote an 'Asian Invasian' article. As a result, the AA E-Zine was started to give Asian American students their own voice and the first issue appeared in February 2002.

As alumni married non-alumni, in 2003 [AA]2 gave up its alumni only designation and incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit: Asians, Americans, and Asian Americans. Still AA Squared but with an enlarged focus. An [AA]2 Board member produced the first annual Asian American events at The New School University. [AA]2 won a grant from the LIFWG for workshops and conferences on Asian American young women. A Wang Center calendar journal was created. Internships were created. And lots more. Join us!  

Our Philosophy:
     If you are interested in becoming involved in [AA]2 or AA E-Zine, please email us.  We only ask that you agree with our philosophical position on interracial relationships.  Our rational is that only those who believe in such relationships can also believe that their race is not superior and that all races are equal, even if current society does not reflect that.
     Statistically the divorce rate for same race couples is higher than for mixed couples.  Authors Mark and Gail Mathabane believe that "most mixed race marriages endure, and have a great deal to teach society about race relations, because the ingredients that make such unions work - trust, cooperation, mutual respect, communication, open-mindedness and a willingness to learn and change - are requisite to racial harmony."

     Helen Zia, journalist and author, ended Asian American Dreams (2000) with the following:
     "I see the evolution in my own family. My parents started out in America with little more than their dreams and convictions... Aunt Betty's son Pete... who is half Danish and half Chinese, likes to exclaim, "We're just like the United Nations."
     I've heard many other Asian American families say the same thing. My extended family, besides being Chinese American, includes Japanese Okinawan American, Japanese American, Malaysian Chinese, Italian American, Scottish-German-Italian American, Filipino American, African American, Puerto Rican, and Jewish American.
     In the younger generation there are scholars, athletes, and everything in between. One of my second cousins is seven feet two inches tall... And astonishing to me, some of my nieces and nephews refuse to eat Chinese food.
     I have to tell cousin Pete that, actually, we're just like the United States."

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