By John Jabaghchourian In a sudden and unexpected move, House Speaker Denis Hastert pulled the Armenian Genocide resolution, House Resolution 596, off the House floor in response to a letter sent by President Clinton just moments before the bill was to be voted on during the October 19 session of Congress. Meanwhile, as the United States government continues to brush ...

Staff Report Government Announces Details of $165 Million of Projects Undertaken by The Lincy Foundation The government of Armenia and The Lincy Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding that formalizes the modification of The Lincy Foundation’s significant commitment to Armenia’s economic development. During a meeting in June with President Robert Kocharian in Washington, Mr. Kirk Kerkorian enthusiastically endorsed the Armenian ...

Staff Report An evening devoted to “The Armenians of the Central San Joaquin Valley” drew more than 100 people to the Fresno County Library on Tuesday, October 17. A full table of Armenian delicacies greeted those who entered the Sarah McCardle Room of the Library to listen to retired local Armenian farmer Berge Bulbulian, musician Peter Dorian, and Barlow Der ...

By Edward Thurber Staff Writer Dr. Richard Hovannisian gave the second of threeHenry S. Khanzadian Kazan Lectures related to the Armenian Genocide of 1915, with a lecture titled “The Last Generation of Ottoman Armenians: Bitter-Sweet Memories,” on Monday evening, October 30th. He began with a discussion of his trip to Istanbul, Turkey, where he presented a paper in an International ...

By Arpik Paraghamian Staff Writer Stolen property and reparations to the survivors and descendants of those martyred during the Armenian Genocide of 1915 was the focus of a lecture by Hilmar Kaiser during his fourth visit to Fresno State on November 6, 2000. Kaiser, a doctoral candidate at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, spent four years studying Turkish ...

By Tamara Karakashian Staff Writer Mayor-elect Alan Autry, who is best known as “Bubba” on the hit television series “In the Heat of the Night,” and former Fresno Mayor Dan Whitehurst were invited by the Armenian Students Organization for an open forum on campus one week prior to the election on October 25, 2000. The purpose of the forum was ...

By Barlow Der Mugrdechian Hye Sharzhoom Advisor Dr. Yair Auron, senior lecturer at The Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of Education, was the guest of the Armenian Studies Program as part of its Fall Lecture Series on Wednesday, November 15. The presentation was held in the new Smittcamp Alumni House. The purpose of his talk, “The Banality ...

Staff Report Dr. Israel Charny, Executive Director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem, spoke on “Academics Who Deny the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust” in a public lecture at 7:30 PM on Monday, October 16. Charny presented several innovative ideas during his lecture. He discussed the typologies of genocide and the stages that deniers of the genocide ...

By Arpik Paraghamian Staff Writer The Fresno State Orpheus concert series entered its 22nd Season Saturday Oct. 14, 2000 with performances of Armenian and European compositions rendered by composers Alan Brett, Pierick Houdy, and Maurice Ravel. The first piece was the world premiere of Brett’s, The Fruit, to be Tasted, Was Torn from the Tree, a suite based on songs ...

By Edward Thurber Staff Writer Dr. Richard Hovannisian, this semester’s Henry S. Khazandian Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies at Fresno State, gave an evening lecture on October 8th titled “The Armenian Genocide: Remembrance and Denial,” the first of the three-part Henry S. Khazandian Kazan lecture series that deals with topics related to the Armenian Genocide. Dr. Hovannisian gave an account ...