Network w/alumni, help raise $$$ for the SP scholarship, eat good food, & have fun in
P-Town!!!
Time and Place
Date: Friday, February 27, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Kapistahan Grill
Street: 1925 W. Temple St. #103
City/Town: Los Angeles, CA
Do you like to eat Filipino food?
Would you like to come to Historic Filipinotown?
Would you like to meet alot of really cool Pilipino alumni?
Do you like SPACE?
If you said "yes" to any of the questions above, then you should come to the SP and PAA (Pilipino Alumni Association) Alumni Mixer.
If you are interested in networking with alumni, this will be a good opportunity to learn more about PAA's Mentorship Program, where you will get a chance to have a mentor from PAA!
Also, if you come to this mixer you will help support SPACE (Samahang Pilipino Advancing Community Empowerment, an outreach program that serves high school students at Belmont and Marshal through tutoring, peer advising, workshops, conferences, and field trips). Part of the proceeds from your participation will go towards the Samahang Pilipino scholarship, a scholarship that will be awarded to highly deserving SPACE students
admitted to college.
Also, if you enjoy eating Filipino food, this is the place to be! The dinner will take place at Kapistahan Grill in the one and only Historic Filipinotown located in downtown LA.
(Student price: $15, Alumni price: $25)
Please help spread the word. If you are interested in attending but do not have a means of transportation, please make sure to reply to the event wall or contact Emily Bautista at president@samahang.org
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=64131789922
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Alumni Mixer and SPACE Scholarship Fundraiser
February 24, 2009
SPCN Stoplight Party!!
What's up everyone!! Midterms are nearly over, so it's time to PARTY IT UP!!!
Let's all go out to the SPCN STOPLIGHT PARTY!!!!
Wear GREEN if you're single
Wear YELLOW if your status is complicated
Wear RED if you are TAKEN!
18+ to come and play,
21+ to drink the drink!
I know y'all are ready to go out because it is ABOUT TIME THAT WE DO!!!! Come hang out
with Samahang Pilipino and everyone in the cast of Samahang Pilipino Cultural Night 2009!
Dance it out with DJ Ty Ty playin your favorites!!
Prices:
Pre-Sales: $10
Bus: $5 [the bus will be at Sproul turnaround @ 10PM] Why drive when you would have more
fun on the bus with EVERYONE ELSE!! get the party started on the bus!!!
Tickets at the door: $15
***Buy your tickets from any SPCN committee member, SP Social Committee member, or SP
Board member!!***
Dance it up with fellow suite members, meet new people, and chill with your favorites!!!
Recap:
Where: Rusty's Surf Ranch in Santa Monica
When: THIS THURSDAY!!!
WHY: BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU WANNA HANGOUT WITH US!!!!
Campaign for Pilipino Studies (CPS) Forum: Part 2!!
Calling all undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, alumni, and community advocates!
Join us as we discuss our mission statement and present avenues for students and allies
to maintain our efforts in diversifying the curriculum. A concentration in Pilipino
Studies is within reach, a feat that will spread a strong foundation for the advancement in research and academia for our community. We need your support to make this happen.
Location: Haines A25
Date: Thursday, February 26
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Questions? Please contact, Samahang Pilipino Education Coordinator Michael de Vera
(education@samahang.org).
Week 7 General Meeting: Gender and Sexuality
February 17, 2009
Join us for Week 7 GM as we learn more about gender and sexuality and continue to explore this quarter's theme of interconnectedness!
Hosted by Samahang's very own Kabalikat and Pinays components, this week's GM will be held in *MOORE 100.* Here we will touch upon the questions:
- What is the difference between tolerance and support?
- How can we differentiate between politically correct and conscious language?
- How do our words and actions affect others?
- What is the meaning of a true "ally?"
- How can I get more involved with Kabalikat/Pinays this year?
So come on out and learn more this week!
Just a reminder again, this general meeting will be in MOORE 100.
See ya there!
Hosted by Samahang's very own Kabalikat and Pinays components, this week's GM will be held in *MOORE 100.* Here we will touch upon the questions:
- What is the difference between tolerance and support?
- How can we differentiate between politically correct and conscious language?
- How do our words and actions affect others?
- What is the meaning of a true "ally?"
- How can I get more involved with Kabalikat/Pinays this year?
So come on out and learn more this week!
Just a reminder again, this general meeting will be in MOORE 100.
See ya there!
Samahang Internship Applications Out! (Spring Quarter)
February 15, 2009
Samahang Teaching through Experience Program is for individuals who are interested in learning about the organization's inner workings, developing leadership skills, and most importantly, how students can make change. Through engaging activities, campus and community events, and just being with other students leaders on the UCLA campus, the internship hopes to develop valuable leadership skills.
Apply now for Spring Quarter! Applications are due Monday, March 2, 2009 in the Samahang office (Kerckhoff 412). If you have any questions, please email spear@ucla.edu.
Click here for a printable application!
Apply now for Spring Quarter! Applications are due Monday, March 2, 2009 in the Samahang office (Kerckhoff 412). If you have any questions, please email spear@ucla.edu.
Click here for a printable application!
Samahang Pilipino Cultural Night Class!
February 12, 2009
All SPCN Participants! The application for the SPCN class is out now! This class will let you have 2.0 units of credit in Spring quarter for participating in SPCN! There will be a small amount of assignments directly relating to the show and the process leading up to it. For more information about the class check out the application.
Click here to fill out the application!
You have until Week 7, Friday, May 20th to complete the application, so make it count!
Click here to fill out the application!
You have until Week 7, Friday, May 20th to complete the application, so make it count!
Financial Crisis & What you Can Do About It
Good morning everyone,
I come to you all with great urgency. As you all may have heard, there is an economic crisis at both the national and state levels. This economic recession has greatly affected students so severely that many of our fellow classmates here at UCLA are currently struggling to find a way to finance their education and to make ends meet for their basic necessities. Because this recession has led to various budget cuts in various sectors of life, our economy is failing to provide an adequate amount of jobs that will help thousands of people sustain themselves and their families. I personally have learned to my dismay that this recession has impacted some of our very own kababayan, our fellow Filipino classmates, so much that they have become homeless or pressured to leave school for more affordable academic pursuits.
This financial crisis is real and threatens our community's ability to access and successfully complete higher education at reputable 4-yr universities like UCLA.
Do you (or anyone you know) receive Cal-Grants and rely on this free money to fund your education?
If so, this financial crisis will greatly affect you and those you care about because there has been a cut in Cal-Grants A and B for the upcoming school year. In fact, IOU's will be issued to you instead of your Cal-Grant next year (an IOU which may or may NOT even be repaid). If you, your friends, or family can no longer reap the benefits of a Cal-Grant, how will that affect your ability to go to college?
Were you part of the top 12% of your class who was guaranteed admittance to a UC?
If so, the current financial crisis may jeopardize the future admittance of the top 12% of the incoming class next year because the UC Regents (the governing body of the UCs) have decided to SLASH enrollment across ALL UCs by 2,300 students.
Also, all CSU's will encounter a cut of 10,000 students.
It is an abomination that more that 12,300 students who would usually be eligible for access to higher education will no longer be guaranteed this right. Also, the cut in state financial aid such as Cal-Grants will greatly affect many students' ability to afford higher education. This may force many ambitious and talented individuals to go to great lengths to support their education, lengths that may also be at the expense of their academic performance. Although many of us have come to college to help fulfill our families' American Dream, the effects of this financial crisis may have turned our college education into a Dream Deferred.
As students, we have great power to change the power structures that have created these conditions for our communities. Because we fund our education through taxes and tuition, we have a right to hold our elected officials and university administration accountable to serving the needs of OUR UNIVERSITY. With that said, please join Samahang Pilipino in a rally to speak out against these measures and to hear the voices and stories of our fellow classmates. We will meet promptly at Meyerhoff Park (near the Kerckhoff steps) at 12 noon TODAY (February 12, 2009).
One Family,
Emily Bautista
Samahang Pilipino President
I come to you all with great urgency. As you all may have heard, there is an economic crisis at both the national and state levels. This economic recession has greatly affected students so severely that many of our fellow classmates here at UCLA are currently struggling to find a way to finance their education and to make ends meet for their basic necessities. Because this recession has led to various budget cuts in various sectors of life, our economy is failing to provide an adequate amount of jobs that will help thousands of people sustain themselves and their families. I personally have learned to my dismay that this recession has impacted some of our very own kababayan, our fellow Filipino classmates, so much that they have become homeless or pressured to leave school for more affordable academic pursuits.
This financial crisis is real and threatens our community's ability to access and successfully complete higher education at reputable 4-yr universities like UCLA.
Do you (or anyone you know) receive Cal-Grants and rely on this free money to fund your education?
If so, this financial crisis will greatly affect you and those you care about because there has been a cut in Cal-Grants A and B for the upcoming school year. In fact, IOU's will be issued to you instead of your Cal-Grant next year (an IOU which may or may NOT even be repaid). If you, your friends, or family can no longer reap the benefits of a Cal-Grant, how will that affect your ability to go to college?
Were you part of the top 12% of your class who was guaranteed admittance to a UC?
If so, the current financial crisis may jeopardize the future admittance of the top 12% of the incoming class next year because the UC Regents (the governing body of the UCs) have decided to SLASH enrollment across ALL UCs by 2,300 students.
Also, all CSU's will encounter a cut of 10,000 students.
It is an abomination that more that 12,300 students who would usually be eligible for access to higher education will no longer be guaranteed this right. Also, the cut in state financial aid such as Cal-Grants will greatly affect many students' ability to afford higher education. This may force many ambitious and talented individuals to go to great lengths to support their education, lengths that may also be at the expense of their academic performance. Although many of us have come to college to help fulfill our families' American Dream, the effects of this financial crisis may have turned our college education into a Dream Deferred.
As students, we have great power to change the power structures that have created these conditions for our communities. Because we fund our education through taxes and tuition, we have a right to hold our elected officials and university administration accountable to serving the needs of OUR UNIVERSITY. With that said, please join Samahang Pilipino in a rally to speak out against these measures and to hear the voices and stories of our fellow classmates. We will meet promptly at Meyerhoff Park (near the Kerckhoff steps) at 12 noon TODAY (February 12, 2009).
One Family,
Emily Bautista
Samahang Pilipino President
General Meeting Survey!!
February 8, 2009
Hey everyone!
Please take the time to provide feedback about the past three winter quarter general meetings. Your words will help us plan for next quarter, so voice any suggestions you might have!
To take the survey, just click the following link: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pmqw38NhjTIOrOLW_zPG0cg
Thanks!
Please take the time to provide feedback about the past three winter quarter general meetings. Your words will help us plan for next quarter, so voice any suggestions you might have!
To take the survey, just click the following link: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pmqw38NhjTIOrOLW_zPG0cg
Thanks!
Week 5 General Meeting: Untold Stories
February 3, 2009
It's week 5!!
Take a break from studying for midterms and join Samahang Pilipino for its third general meeting of the quarter! We will be discussing the different experiences of several general members here at UCLA and hoping to delve into our own in the process!
A photographer from the BruinLife yearbook is also scheduled to take the Samahang Pilipino group picture for the yearbook afterwards, so be sure to come out for that!
Date: Friday, February 6
Time: 6 to 8 PM
Location: Kerckhoff State Rooms
We hope to see you there!
Take a break from studying for midterms and join Samahang Pilipino for its third general meeting of the quarter! We will be discussing the different experiences of several general members here at UCLA and hoping to delve into our own in the process!
A photographer from the BruinLife yearbook is also scheduled to take the Samahang Pilipino group picture for the yearbook afterwards, so be sure to come out for that!
Date: Friday, February 6
Time: 6 to 8 PM
Location: Kerckhoff State Rooms
We hope to see you there!
