Staff Report Name: Stepan Kyutunyan Year: Freshman I wrote emails to our senators asking them to put the recognition of the Genocide before Congress. Name: Gevork Aristakesyan Year: Senior I went to church and prayed for the countless victims of the Genocide. Names: Ani Estefanian and Gayane Frnzyan Year: Senior & Freshman We went as a group of ...
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Armenians on the Internet
Alex Bunch Staff Writer Armenian Genocide Address: http://www.armenian-genocide.org/ Main Categories: Armenian Genocide, History, Research Brief Summary: This is a website dedicated to educating people with respect to the Armenian genocide of 1915. The creators have gone to great lengths to publish and organize information in a very thoughtful and easy to learn fashion. The detailed links you will find on ...
Read More »The Collegian Referendum Passes
Staff Report Students at Fresno State passed a referendum, April 20 and 21, that will increase future funding for The Collegian beginning next semester. The referendum passed 655 to 443. The Collegian is currently funded through the Associated Students, but the passage of the referendum guarantees that The Collegian will now be independently funded directly through student fees. This independence ...
Read More »6th Annual Armenian Film Festival
Hakop Tataryan Editor The 6th Annual Armenian Film Festival at Fresno State was held on April 1 and audience members were treated to four films from different categories of film making. A documentary about the genocide, a short experimental and somewhat abstract film, a student film about two famous Armenian authors, and the featured film of the evening “Calendar,” a ...
Read More »Kolanian Guitar Concert a Success
Sebouh Krioghlian Staff Writer With the support of Kevork Imirzian, Satenig Kassabian, Dennis Shamlian, Arsineh Khachikian, and Barlow Der Mugrdechian; Iakovos Kolanian, a critically acclaimed Armenian-Greek classical guitarist gave a benefit concert on March 5 for the Armenian Community School of Fresno and the Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State. Kolanian, born in Greece in 1960, started to study classical ...
Read More »Author Markar Melkonian on New Book
Sarah Soghomonian Staff Writer “It’s about time that we loudly repudiate the romantic conceit that ‘my pen is my gun.’ Pens are pens and guns are guns. There are more than enough ‘intellectuals’ in the diaspora. What we need are fighters, soldiers, fedaiis.” – Monte Melkonian Hakop Tataryan Editor Heroes are like ghosts, many people speak of them, but only ...
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