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Andrew Hagopian Editor The Armenian Students Organization (ASO) has been very active during the 2021 Fall semester at Fresno State. ASO members gathered for a bowling night on Friday, October 22, held at Bowlero Bowling Alley with over 35 members in attendance. The ASO also organized a Thanksgiving “Friendsgiving” Fellowship night which brought together 40 Armenian students. Members had a ...

Staff Report The Charles K. Pategian and Pansy Pategian Zlokovich Scholarship was established by Charles K. Pategian in 1972 and is the oldest scholarship fund established to support students in the Armenian Studies Program. Scholarships are awarded to students who demonstrate an interest in Armenian culture and who have a financial need to continue their university education. The scholarship provides ...

Michael Mazman Staff Writer On Friday, October 15, 2021, the Armenian Studies Program hosted Dr. Suren Manukyan for the second installment of his three-part lecture series on the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide, titled “Bureaucrats of the Armenian Genocide: The Mid-Level Perpetrators.” Similarly to his first presentation, “Architects of the Armenian Genocide,” Dr. Manukyan began his presentation by discussing the ...

Sara Beberian Staff Writer Imagine a huge, beautiful canyon, with birds flying through it, and the wind whistling through the distance. This was an everyday reality for Sophia Marti (Tatian Spivakova), who grew up in a home overlooking a canyon in Artsakh that her family nicknamed the “Gate to Heaven.” The name was fitting, as the canyon was so beautiful ...

Staff Report A large collection of Armenian themed books and periodicals was received from the estate of the late June Shamshoian. Her daughter Janine Shamshoian Economides and husband Dr. Nicholas Economides made the generous donation in October of this year. The books will be incorporated into the Armenian Studies Program collection. June Shamshoian was born on August 22, 1927, in ...

Dustin Vartanian Staff Writer “The continued denial of the Armenian Genocide equals a continuation of the Genocide,” stated Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian. Evidence of the Armenian Genocide is plentiful: the population of Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire decreased by seventy-five percent after World War I. Thousands of Armenian churches existed throughout the Ottoman Empire, while only a handful remain ...

Michael Mazman Staff Writer On Friday, September 17, 2021, the Armenian Studies Program hosted Dr. Suren Manukyan, Fresno State’s 18th Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies, to deliver a lecture titled “Architects of the Armenian Genocide: The Top-Level Perpetrators.” This was the first of a three-part lecture series by Dr. Manukyan on the theme of “Perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.” ...

  Arshak Abelyan Staff Writer One of the biggest challenges for the future of Armenia is the uncertainty of the leadership in the country following the Artsakh war in 2020. In the case of the Armenian political sphere, the solution can be simply labeled as unique. Dr. Nerses Kopalyan, an assistant professor-in-residence of Political Science at the University of Nevada, ...

Sosse Baloian Staff Writer “One cannot change the future without understanding the past,” stated Tatiana Samouie, a Biology major and expected 2022 Fresno State graduate. As a great grandchild of an Armenian Genocide survivor, Samouie believes that “learning about multiple genocides can provide an individual with an acute lens when looking at global issues.” Samouie is one of several students ...

Christine Pambukyan Staff Writer “Bedros Keljik’s Armenian American Sketches brings to life one of the early chapters of the storied history of the Armenian-American community, whose presence on this continent long precedes the events of 1915 and even the Hamidian massacres of the nineteenth century,” said Jessie Arlen, interim director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center. On April ...