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Dear Fellow Yalie,

Thanks to those of you who have ...]]> Jenny Chavira YAAMNY Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:00:56 -0400 http://www.yaamny.net/8590/Yalies_in_New_York_We_still_need_your_opinion http://www.yaamny.net/7671/Yalies_in_New_York_We_need_your_opinion

Click here for YAAMNY Alumni Interest Survey

We want to know what you imagine a NYC-based alumni association could or should be: what it looks like, sounds like, feels like. We want to know your current attitudes and opinions about YAAMNY, if you have any (but who are we kidding, we Yalies… we have opinions about everything)....

From below the city's streets springs a brand new musical inspired by the rhythms and sounds of life on the subway. There's not an instrument in sight as a colorful array of commuters find their way in NYC. Mixing reggae, pop, soul, beat box and more, IN TRANSIT is unlike anything you've ever seen -- or heard-- on stage before. Tickets 212-935-5820 or www.yorktheatre.org. Complete information here.

 Bob Lamm--a member of the class of 1969 and a Visiting Lecturer at Yale in 1978 and 1980--will be offering two classes this fall and winter at the City University of New York Graduate Center (34th St. and 5th Ave.)

THE JOY OF IMPROV: Join in the fun of doing improvisational comedy in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere. No performing experience is necessary--just a willingness to experiment, play, and laugh with others! No student is forced to do an exercise or game, but everyone is encouraged to participate. (Four Thursday nights, September through December. You can attend on a single-session basis. This class ran at the Grad Center for 13 semesters from 2001 through 2007.)

CLASSIC POLITICAL NOVELS: We will read and discuss five political novels--among them, John Steinbeck's THE PEARL (which students must read for the first session), Chinua Achebe's THINGS FALL APART, and Carson McCullers' THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. These works are "political" not because they examine politics or government but because they richly illuminate power relations--including dynamics of gender, race, and class--while telling memorable, moving stories. Students will be expected to read each novel and participate actively in class discussions. (Five Tuesday nights, September through January.)

INSTRUCTOR: Bob Lamm's political articles, personal essays, interviews, and profiles have appeared in more than 40 periodicals--among them, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Ms. Magazine--and in six anthologies. He has taught "serious" classes at Yale, Queens College, and the New School. He has run improv classes and workshops for the CUNY Grad Center, the HOPE Program, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the NYSTEA Drama Power Conferences, Friends in Deed, the Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, and ...

Check out a new series Kevin Lezak '93 has been making with fellow Yalie Dan Goldman '93.  It's for PBS and New York's own, Channel thirteen -- all for art, rarefied, splendorous and lovely.  New episodes will be posting every week throughout the summer.   Yale School of music graduates featured!  Laugh a little more, cry a little less.  Or cry more, it's opera.   Revel.

Here are links to a few recent episodes:

Young Opera Ryan Kinsell

Young Opera Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir

Young Opera Eric Down

Support Dwight Hall with this exciting chance to win a vacation for four to Tortuga Bay Hotel in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. 

• Enjoy a week in a private villa at this luxurious small resort on the east coast featuring a wonderful golf course and spa, with a prize value of $14,500!

• You're chances of winning are good because only 450 tickets will be sold.

• Even if you don't win...you can't lose...since you'll know that you are helping Dwight Hall volunteers serve people in the New Haven area with programs like Community Health Educators, Tutoring in Elementary Schools, Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project and the Urban Debate League.  Dwight Hall is the only undergraduate student-run social service and social action organization in the country!

Tickets are going fast...Call Dwight Hall at 203.432.2428, email or click here to purchase tickets on line.

Book release today, March 1st, by Damiani Editore through Distributed Art Publishers

Available at Amazon.com.

Thus, we are asking alumni for proposals and news about your activites that incorporate the need for volunteers to promote public interest and social justice initiatives in the area. In addition to helping promote awareness of the many independent efforts of local alums, we plan to help, support and manage selected projects each month.

Our goal is to focus on monthly projects that enable YAAMNY members, friends and families to volunteer in a range of activities from the laborious to more intellectually stimulating. 

Please contact volunteering@yaamny.net for additional information or to get involved.  Interested alumni should also post projects on: http://yaamny.net/volunteering. The committee will convene monthly.

Current Chairs:

• Amanda Taffy at amandataffy@hotmail.com
• Thomas Murphy at tmurphy@pace.edu

 Vivek Kembaiyan
Contributing Reporter
Published Friday, October 12, 2007

After 30 years of development, the Latino community at Yale is reaching a major milestone this weekend with a move toward organizing alumni on a national scale.

An interim National Latino Alumni Board, consisting of 12 former Yale undergraduates from around the country, will be meeting in New Haven on Saturday to discuss the organization of the growing Yale Latino alumni community. At the meeting, the interim board members hope to establish the ground work for a national association of Yale Latino alumni. Assistant Dean of Yale College Rosalinda Garcia, director of La Casa Cultural, said in addition to uniting the more than 3,000 Latino graduates, such an organization would provide tangible benefits for Latinos on campus.

Garcia said in speaking to alumni, it is apparent to her that one of their biggest interests is to connect to the undergraduates they remember it being tough, and now that they are in a position to help, they want to know what they can do.

The structure and size of the Latino community at Yale have changed significantly over the past 30 years, she said. The first two Latino organizations founded at Yale were Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or MeChA, in 1969 and Despierta Boricua in 1972, which are Mexican-American and Puerto Rican student organizations, respectively.

Development in the early years of the Latino community was centered almost solely on these two ethnic groups. La Casa Boricua, a Puerto Rican cultural center, was founded in 1974. In the 1980s another building was dedicated to serve the Chicano cultural center, ...

Come see A Walk to Beautiful on Wednesday February 13th at 6:15pm for a special YAAMNY screening followed by Q&A with the filmmakers! Beginning February 8th the film will be at the Quad Cinema (34 West 13th St.) where it will run for at least one week and can hope to have its run extended in response to audience support.

Regular show times are:

1:00 pm, 2:45 pm, 4:30 pm, 6:15 pm, 8:00 pm, and 10:05 pm.