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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 ...

By Ara Mekhitarian Demk Radio Address: http://www.demkradio.com Brief Summary: Demkradio.com is an on-line Armenian radio station which allows anyone to log on to listen to Armenian music over the internet. This web site was first launched in November of 1999 and has since become extremely popular with many regular visitors. Just click on their “listen” option and you’ll automatically enter ...

By Barlow Der Mugrdechian Hye Sharzhoom Advisor Professors Anna Sargsyan and Aram Karapetyan of the Yerevan State University (YSU) School of Business were on a working visit to Fresno State for three weeks, from November 12 to December 2 as part of the Faculty Development Program in Business and Economics. The Program was started in 1999, when Fresno State was ...

By John Jabagchourian Editor On a trip to the United States, is Holiness Aram I,Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, made a special stop at California State University, Fresno on the morning of October 23, 2000 to speak to students and faculty on “The Ecological Crisis, Its Causes and Implications: A Christian View.” Dressed in the traditional black robe ...

John Jabagchourian / Editor Taking steps towards the truth, yet not quite through the door, the 106th U.S. Congress has experienced a last minute spark in moving House Resolution 596 through the legislative process. The resolution, affirming the Armenian Genocide, will be heard and voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives after the full House International Relations Committee passed ...

Professor Dickran Kouymjian and the Armenian Studies Program would like to thank the authors and publishers for the following books, videos and periodicals. Ben Amirkhanian & The William Saroyan Society William Saroyan posters and CD of the 1st Annual Great Saroyan Reading Araz Artinian, Ville St Laurent Quebec Video: Surviving the Richter Scale Dr. Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Medford, MA Baghdiantz ...