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Andrew Hagopian Editor The Armenian Students Organization at Fresno State ended the Fall 2019 semester with a Neighborhood Christmas Lights Social in December, where students were able to bond over dinner, games, and a walk around Candy Cane Lane. Students also participated in an “Ugly Sweater” competition which was quite competitive to judge.  In the Spring ASO held various social ...

Staff Report The Renaissance Cultural & Intellectual Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Artur Janibekyan, is pleased to announce that the Saroyan House Museum, in cooperation with “The Interactive World” company, has recreated William Saroyan’s presence in the Museum. Visitors can now view an updated Saroyan Hologram, which includes the “Three Ages of Saroyan.” Months of research were conducted to ...

Staff Report Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Berberian Coordinator of the Armenian Studies Program, announced that Bedros Keljik’s Armenian-American Sketches has been published by the Armenian Series of The Press, at California State University, Fresno. “Keljik’s stories offer us a glimpse into the soul of the Armenian people, whether in their historic homeland or finding their way in America.” Bishop Daniel ...

Christine Pambukyan Staff Writer House of Hope – Mer Hooys, Inc. is a non-profit organization formed in December 2008 with the purpose of aiding young, disadvantaged girls in Armenia by providing housing, a family environment, education, life and job skills training, family rehabilitation, and other forms of aid. Since it opened its doors to fifteen teenaged girls in October 2012, ...

Staff Report Armenian Studies Program Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced that the Leon S. Peters Foundation has made a generous donation of $30,000 to the Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State for 2020. This continues the generosity of the Peters Foundation which has directly supported the Armenian Studies Program since 2013. Leon S. Peters was born in Fowler, California, ...

Arshak Abelyan Staff Writer Shortly before the beginning of the Spring 2020 semester, the Armenian Studies Program announced that Dr. Ari Şekeryan was appointed as the 16th Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies for the Spring 2020 semester at Fresno State. As part of his assignment, Dr. Şekeryan is teaching a three-unit course entitled “Armenians in the Ottoman Empire after ...

Dustin Vartanian Staff Writer Turn up the volume and tune in to Multicultural 1600 KGST-AM Radio. The Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State has brought back its “All Things Armenian” radio program hosted by Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian. The original “All Things Armenian” program aired in 2003-2004 through the Fresno State radio station (KFSR) but, the new program’s airing this ...

Sosse Baloian Staff Writer Early this summer, second-year Mechanical Engineering student Sarkis Tatarian and senior Landscape Architecture Design student Michaela Walkup attended the American University of Armenia’s “Summer Study” program in Yerevan. During the six-week program, both enrolled in one general education course and were housed in apartments close to the campus. At the end of each week, Tatarian and ...

Arshak Abelyan Staff Writer Armenian refugees from the Ottoman Empire, who were able to escape the Genocide, experienced another traumatic shock by settling in the new Soviet Union. “Living under a new political order necessitated a total transformation of these ex-Ottoman subjects, into loyal Soviet citizens,” stated guest speaker Ayşenur Korkmaz. On Wednesday, October 30, 2019, Korkmaz explored the question ...

  Yervand Boyajyan Staff Writer Over a hundred years has passed, and the Turkish government has yet to recognize the atrocious genocide of the Armenian people. It is a topic about which modern-day Turkey stays silent and continues to deny what the Ottoman Turkish Empire did to the Armenian people in 1915.  On Friday, November 8, 2019, Dr. Ümit Kurt ...