October 1992 Vol.14, No.1 {41) Supplement to the Daily Collegian Overview of ASO by Emmanuel Tzanakakis Originally Printed in Insight
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The Newspaper of the CaUfornia State University, FrfSDo Armenian Students Organization & Armenian Studies Program · Non-Profit Fresno, C.\ 93740 · U.S. Postage Address Correction Requested PAID Pennit No. 263 Fresno, CA. October 1992 Vol.14, No.1 {41) Supplement to the Daily Collegian Overview of ASO By Emmanuel Tzanakakis Originally Printed in Insight Any ·organization representmg a the ASO's role: minority tries to gain the general public's ''ThegoaloftheASOistoattractpeople acceptance of its cultural identity, and at· that are ipterestedjn Armenian history and the same time ensure that its history is culture, reinforce the academic program, presented accurately. and at the same time provide social activities In addition to this burden, the Armenian for the students", Kouymjian said. Student Organization has to face the fact Barlow Der Mugrdichian, Lecturer in that Armenians are not regarded as a legal Armenian Studies and advisor to the ASO minority, in a country that has yet to since 1985, said that the organization recognize the Amienian genocide of 1.5 presents information and provides million people by the Turks in 1915. opportunities for involvement in various However, the ASO publishes "Hye activities. / Sharzhoom", one of the three minority "It is open to non-Armenians too," be newspapers at CSUF, published in said. conjunction with the "Kalfayan Center fo!' ASO's most successful event has been Armenian Studies". the organization ofa nationwide convention Varaz Samuelian with students from Armenian Studies 120T "Hye Sharzhoom", is the-only strictly of Armenian student groups, in the spring Armenians in America. The students were visiting the Varaz student paper in the United States. It is 3Iso of 1981. the oldest one, currently in its 14th year of Ithasalsostagedlibraryexhibits,invited Art Museum in downtown Fresno as part of the course. publicati<:?n. renowned scholars and congressmen for ' The .paper has provided a vital link lectures, and has helped provide funding to MORE AID Study in Arrite~ia ; between th~ Armenian community in aid the victims of the earthquake in for College S~udeqts Fresno and the university, but a lot of Armenia. FOR ARMENIA students are far from happy with its role in The biggest annual event is the· · . Through an agreem~nt recedtly recent years. commemoration of the Armenian genocide Diko Oh~nes.sian, Editor reached between Yerevari State Uni SatoOhannessian,asenior,majoringin on the 24th of April:Last year, the ASO verSity and California State; University, marketing, has been very disappointed with also managed to reach an agreement with Sen. Robert Dole drafted an Fresno, college students may take ~d "Hye Sharzhoom" during the last two years. the Vintage Days programming committee, ainendment to the Appropriations Bill for vantage of a special offer :to study in ''The paper needs opinions," she said, .to avoid the simultaneous staging of events Foreign Operations (HR 5368) which Yerevan~Armenia.'IbeCalifomia State ''it needs to show the true feelings of the on campus that day· earmarked not less than $5 million in aid University, Fresno Armenian Studies students." On the negative side, the ASO has more for refugee assistance to Armenia. Program will be coordinating one or Ohannessian feels tha the editors are .than the usual problems of a student The amendment passed during the two semester courses of study for stu scared of the word "pdliti~al", which organization. Low membership is one of last days before the congressional recess dents interested in studying at Yerevan according to her, means being active and them. when most amendments get dropped in State University in Armenui. · aware of what is going on. ·'~ --_ ~: Tania Alikian, a junior in advertising, conference. CSU Fresno students may earn col Khatchig Jingirian Jr., a junior in kid: "The ASO does· nothing special for Dole's amendment provides for lege credit at Yerevan State University, marketing, believes that the recent running the students. It is isolating them instead of refugee aid to Armenia to help assist over . while taking a specially designed course · of the paper is lacking in maturity and in ;bringing them together." 300,000 Armenians that have been deported of study. Students will live in the center providing pertinent information to the ! When politics come into pl~y, things or have fled from their homes in Azerbaijan of Yerevan and have the opportunitY to students, and is insulting to ~enrans. become even more complex: as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh visit the major histOric sites in the coun- Apart from the newspaper, theASOhas Jingirian resigned from th~ AS? conflict. try. ; a multiple function presidency last year, because of hts The $5 million in aid is desperately Students interested in applying tor Professor Die~ K. Kouymjian, who frustr~tion wi~ ~e continu~g in.fluence of needed due to the 50,000 new refugees the Spring or Fall1993 semesters may is''TheHaigandlsabelBerberianEnclowed . old cl1ques w1tlnn the organ1zatmn . - who have fled to Armenia in the past two contact the Armenian Studies Prog$n .· · Chair in Armenian Studies" as well as · months. for more infonnation and applicatiOns. directorofthe"SarkisandMelineKalfayan See Overview -Page 2 Center for Armenian Studies" describes \ \oo' · See Armenia ~age 4 . .... ' . • • " ••• '' 4 Page 2 Hye Sharzhoom .. October 1992 Overview This issue's main story deals with Yet the Armenian courses remain, ethnicity. students' apathy and disappointtnent with relatively low in registration, but still If the statement was incorrect, then the theA.S.O.and HyeSharzhoom. The writer remain. A.S.O. should be aole to go through an uncc>vers the crux of the situation on Why is it that Armenian students are so academic school year without holding one campus. un-Armenian? shish kebab sale. There has been many times when Are they embarrassed of their ancestry? So far this semester there has been no students have not participated simply According~ the main story, the A.S.O. shish kebab sales. Can A.S.O. go the full because of ~e fear of becoming involved. was charged with selling shish kebab as year without one? Or will the charcoal be The involvement sometimes ·becomes their only ~tivity to promote Armenian fired up? political, which to most students is not desirable. But what exactly is political? Is it speaking out against in justices both on and off campus, or is it simply becom~g involved in an organization that is distinct? The question of becoming politically involved does not retain campus boundaries. It goes beyond into the social setting of Fresno's Armenian community. Often times individuals, as well as organizations, will refuse to deal with an issue fearing political implications. There are many Armenian students registered at CSU Fresno, yet the only ones that are visible are the same ones visible in the Fresno Armenian community. These students are only the minority . Most go through CSU Fresno without registering for any Armenian courses, be it language or history.Some of the ones that do register do so only to receive the more than generous scholarships available to registered sJudents ... Armenian lA class celebrating Armenia's Independence. Hye Sharzhoom , _~ Vintage Days Staff Diko Ohannessian Advertising Manager: Editor in Chief Diko Ohannessian Copy Editor: Layout: Khatchig Jingirian, Jr. · Diko Ohannessian Staff Writers: Armenian Page Editor: Khatchig Jingirian, Jr. Serop Torossian Annen Aghishian Armenian Page Writer: Annen Aghishian Circulation Manager: Advisor: Serop Torossian Barlow Der Mugrdechian Photographers: Barlow Der Mugrdechian Hye Sharzhoom is a supplement of the Daily Collegi.an and £!te newspaper o~ the CSUF Armenian Students Organization and the Armeman Studies Program. It IS funded by the Associated Students. Why Do You Read Hye Sharzhoom? · Articles may be reprit:tted provided that Hye Sharzhoom is acknowledged. Hye Sharzhoom welcomes prose, poetry, articles, manuscripts, and other materi~ from its readers. For fur!ber information concerning the newspaper or the Armeman Studies Program, call theCSUF ASP office (209) 278-2669. October 1992 Hye Sharzhoom Page 3 The People Of TheLevonian Educational Fund· Yervant was born to Hovhannes and The Yervant, Rose, and Hovhannes The following account of the life of years to another market in a more favorable Doodoo Levonian in Aintab, Turkey, now Levonian Educational Fund was established Yervant, Rose, and Hovahannes location. They finally saved enough to move called Gaziantep. His father was a leader in in 1985. California State University,Fresno Levonian was written by JoyceKuljian to the last market they would own, the the Armenian Community and respected is one of five institutions which were Abdulian and Maynard Kuljian in Peacock MarketnearthecornerofBelmont among the local Turkish government selected to benefit from this fund, which is memorv of their uncle. and Blackstone. Many Fresnansremember officials. He was a money-changer by administered by the Armenian Missionary The United States was a safe haven for this mrutcet fondly. profession and a landowner of vast apricot Association of America. Armenian sUrvivors of the 1915 genocide Yervant-and his wife were members of and pistachio orchards. He exported Income from this fund prov.ides student in Turkey. Yervant Levonian was one of the Pilgrim Armenian Congregational pistachios all over the world. He had built many who ·were welcomed here. He chose Church, where Rose was a loyal and faithful loans and grants to needy Armenian students homes for each of his children on his lands, and to students of any ethnic origin who to settle in Fresno, California. · worker in the women's groups. Her life but the genocide changed all of their lives HemarriedRoseGagossian and together centered around family and the church. demonstrate interest and participation in forever. Armenian history and culture. they started their first market near the settle in Aleppo, Syria, along ·with other railroad yards. This was upgraded in a few Yervant' s parents and his brother Levon survivors.