Monday, April 18, 2005
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This week students from the Asian-American Student Union have planned events focused on giving students of the University of Kansas a taste of Asia during the union’s Asian Festival.
Every year AASU provides students an opportunity to share in the many rich cultures throughout Asia. This year’s Asian Festival theme is “Journey through the Orient.”
Events are scheduled throughout the week on campus and lead up to Taste of Asia, which involves dinner at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries and a show in the Kansas Union.
AASU expanded Taste of Asia, the culmination of the week-long festival, to both Friday and Saturday this week to increase attendance, Grant Huang said.
The Taste of Asia dinner, which costs $7 for single tickets and $12 for couples, will be at the ECM on Friday.
Tickets will be sold at AASU events throughout the week.
AASU performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
“Every year we do this and every year we try to make it bigger,” said Pauline Sung, Leavenworth senior. “It’s not just Chinese; it’s not just Japanese.”
Sung said she was planning most of the events for the week and had reached out to other student organizations for their participation.
Hong Kong and Macau Student Association, KU Cultural India Club, Alpha Phi Gamma sorority and Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity are some of the groups that will be helping out with the week.
AASU also plans on bringing a Filipino dance troupe and having the Korean Presbyterian Church sing during Saturday night’s event.
Grant Huang, St. Louis freshman, said the week took Asian culture and broke it into smaller pieces.
He and other AASU members have been asking the Asian restaurants in Lawrence for food donations or gift certificates for the week.
So far they have had buffet restaurants such as King Buffet and Peking Taste donate food for Friday night’s dinner at the ECM.
The gift certificates they have received will be raffled off during Friday’s dinner.
Sung wants to spread awareness of the week to diversify campus population and increase attendance from American students.
“We want people to have fun,” she said. “We can learn something from a different culture.”
Taste of Asia Events
today
Asian Languages Fair
Kansas Union Lobby
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
tomorrow
Open Mic Night
Hawk’s Nest, Kansas Union
7 to 10 p.m.
Wednesday
Origami & Henna Tattoo Workshop
Kansas Union Lobby
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Thursday
Lion Dance
Wescoe Beach
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Friday
Taste of Asia Dinner
Ecumenical Christian Ministries
7 p.m.
Saturday
Taste of Asia
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
7:30 p.m.
—Source AASU
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