TIMELINE of Asian American History in the year 2001 (Part 3)

ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN
HISTORICAL TIMELINE DETAILS IN THE YEAR 2001
Our victories, obstacles and leaders (Part 3)

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2001
NORMAN MINETA AIRPORT
On November 6th, the San Jose (CA) City Council voted to rename the San Jose International Airport for Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta, a native son of San Jose, former City Council Member, Mayor and US Congressman representing the area.

With a vote of 10-1, the City Council changed the airport name to the "Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport."
Commented JACL National President S. Floyd Mori, "The renaming of the San Jose airport to honor Secretary Mineta recognizes not only the Secretary's dedication to public service throughout his career representing the people of San Jose and the nation but also the significant impact he has had over the past four decades.

His commitment to issues of diversity, civil rights, safety and infrastructure development have made him a national leader and role model for every American.

2001
OCA / CATHAY BANK "911 RELIEF FUND
Organization of Chinese Americans and Cathay Bank launched their "911 Healing Hands Fund" in response to the September 11th tragedy. The national fund is a joint campaign committed to addressing emergency needs and relief efforts.

2001
ASIAWEEK IS SHUTTERED
Time, Inc. and AOL are shutting down AsiaWeek, along with On and Family Life magazines, as the result an ongoing advertising recession. AsiaWeek one of Asia's two largest English-language news weeklies, will shed 80 jobs. It was founded in 1975 and with a current circulation of about 120,000).

Asiaweek's main competitor, the Far Eastern Economic Review, recently merged its editorial staff with that of The Asian Wall Street Journal. About one-fourth of the combined staff was cut from the publications, both of which are owned by Dow Jones & Co.

2001
BILL MOYER'S DOCUMENTARY ON CHINESE AMERICANS

Award-winning US journalist Bill Moyers is producing a three-part television series on the Chinese American experience to fill a gap in understanding and to counter what he called continuing bias against people of Chinese descent in America.

The series, three 90-minute documentaries to run on consecutive nights, will use diaries, letters and archives as well as interviews with historians, authors and descendants to tell the story, Moyers told a luncheon of the Chinese American group the Committee of 100 on Thursday. The final segment will concentrate on questions of identity and culture. The series will air on public television in the United States near the end of 2002.

"I want to tell this story because I want millions of viewers to see how people of Chinese descent wrestled, struggled and sacrificed to become Americans," Moyers said. He was inspired partly by continuing evidence of discrimination faced by Chinese-Americans, most recently shown during the crisis over the US surveillance plane that collided with a Chinese fighter jet.

The Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), a civil rights group, has documented several such incidents in recent weeks. These included a radio talk show host suggesting that all Chinese be placed in a ''Japanese camp,'' a reference to the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War Two, and the use of racial slurs on the air.'' I want to tell this story to show how the vitriol, spite, hatred and fear that we heard recently has been fertilized by two centuries of racist rhetoric and crude caricature whose memory traces are still embedded deeply in our social DNA,'' Moyers said.' 'I want to tell this story because telling it can help confront that caricature and eliminate it from our collective unconscious,'' he said.

He thanked several in his audience at the Committee of 100, a society of prominent Chinese-Americans formed in part to address the concerns of Americans of Chinese and Asian heritage, for their help in the project.

2001
APAICS 2001 BOARD MEMBERS
The officers are the following:

William A. H. (Mo) Marumoto - Chair
Chairman & CEO - The Interface Group, Ltd. - Washington, DC

M. E. Chang, R. Admiral, U.S.N. (Ret.) - Vice Chair
President - MEC International, LLC - Vienna, VA

Aurora Jose Wong, Esq. - Secretary
Corporate Counsel - Arcata Associates, Inc. - North Las Vegas, NV

Kenneth Mendez - Treasurer
Chief Operating & Financial Officer - Trout Unlimited - Arlington, VA

The Board Members are:

Gloria T. Caoile
Special Assistant to the International President
American Fed. of State, County & Municipal Employees - Washington, DC

Sant S. Chatwal
President - Hampshire Hotels and Resorts - New York, NY

Laura Efurd
Former Deputy Assistant to the President (Deputy Director) - Office of Public Liaison
The White House - Washington, DC

Clayton Fong
Executive Director - National Asian Pacific Center on Aging - Seattle, WA

The Honorable Matthew Fong
Chairman - Leadership America Foundation - City of Industry, CA

June Jee
Director, Community Affairs - Verizon - New York, NY

David L. Kim
Director of Corporate Relations - Asian Pacific Affairs - Anheuser-Busch Companies - St. Louis, MO

Sou Wong-Lee
Director, Raytheon Learning - Raytheon Company - Arlington, VA

Susan C. Lee, Esq.
Of Counsel - Gebhardt & Associates, LLP - Washington, DC

Thomas Lee
National Asian Marketing Executive - Coca Cola North America - Atlanta, GA

The Honorable Yvonne Y. Lee
Commissioner - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - San Francisco, CA

Ginger Ehn Lew
CEO - Telecommunications Development Fund - Washington, DC

Marcella Low
Public Affairs Manager - The Gas Company - Redondo Beach, CA

Gary Nakamoto
Vice President - Base Technologies, Inc. - McLean, VA

Mike "Mukeshâ" Patel
President - Diplomat Hotel Corporation - Atlanta, GA

Chang-Lin Tien
NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering - UC Berkeley - Berkeley, CA

Sheldon Zane
Founder, Chairman & CEO - Zane Development Group - Honolulu, HI

2001
DEBRA YANG - 1ST US ATTORNEY FOR CALIFORNIA
Debra Yang, a 42-year-old former federal prosecutor, could become the first Asian American to serve as U.S. attorney for California's Central Judicial District, which spans seven counties from Orange to San Luis Obispo. The office prosecutes cases such as major drug crimes, financial swindles and civil rights violations.

2001
FAREWELL TO MANZANAR IS RERELEASED
In 2001, 10,000 video copies of this film will be made and sent to California schools and libraries. This John Kory-directed film was restored and relaunch in video form to help educate California students and the general public about the < href="timeline-1940.html#op1" target="blank">internment camps.

Backers include Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, Universal Studios, the Civil Liberties Public Education Project of the California State Library and members of the Japanese American community. Universal Studios is underwriting the video project--producing the copies and distributing them to every public school and library in the state; publisher McDougal-Littell is providing 8,500 copies of the book and the teaching guide to be included with the school videos. The Manzanar project is an offshoot of the Commission for One California.

2001
GREAT ASIAN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
The 25 Great Asian American Universities of 2001 are listed below:

(RANK, Name/Location, Number and Percentage of Asian Undergrads)

01. UC Berkeley, CA (8,500 / 42%)
02. UCLA, CA, (9,200 / 40%)
03. Stanford, Palo Alto, CA (1,600 / 25%)
04. MIT, Cambridge, MA (1,200 / 28%)
05. Harvard, Cambridge, MA (1,270 / 19%)
06. UC San Diego, CA (5,600 / 35%)
07. Yale, New Haven, CT (930 / 17%)
08. UC Irvine, CA (8,400 / 58%)
09. Columbia, New York, NY (1,050 / 16%)
10. UC Davis, CA (7,000 / 36%)
11. Princeton, Princeton, NJ (700 / 15%)
12. USC, Los Angeles, CA (3,700 / 25%)
13. Cornell, Ithaca, NY (2,340 / 17%)
14. UC Santa Barbara, CA (2,900 / 17%)
15. U of Penn, Phil., PA (2,000 / 21%)
16. Carnegie Mellon, PA (1,120 / 22%)
17. NYU, New York, NY (2,900 / 18%)
18. Johns Hopkins, MD (830 / 21%)
19. Wellesley, Wellesley, MA (560 / 25%)
20. U of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3,000 / 13%)
21. Duke, Durham, NC (900 / 14%)
22. U of Virginia, VA (1,400 / 11%)
23. UC Santa Cruz, CA (1,480 / 15%)
24. U of Washington, Seattle (5,000 / 23%)
25. U of Texas, Austin (5,300 / 16%)

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