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Armen Melidonian Staff Writer The Armenians Students Organization (ASO) has had a productive semester, with preparation and planning for activities and events. In March ASO held a fundraiser at Me ‘N Ed’s Pizza on First and Bullard Avenues. The pizza fundraiser was beneficial in assisting the club’s funding of numerous activities. There was a great deal of preparation for the ...

Armen Melidonian Staff Writer The Fresno State campus welcomed a joint lecture by two professors on April 16 at 7:30 pm at the University Business Center. Attendees were treated to presentations by Dr. Bedross Der Matossian, professor of Middle East History at MIT, and Dr. Levon Marashlian, professor of History at Glendale Community College. The event was organized and sponsored ...

Evelyn Demirchian Staff Writer A relatively new rock band has been creating some major underground waves in Southern California this past year. Armenian Space Station, headed up by friends Greg Hosharian and Barrett Yeretsian, with Phil Trujeque and Clint Feddersen, is a hard rock group that takes an interesting twist on metal by combining classical music and Armenian melodies. Hosharian ...

Mari Koshkakaryan Staff Writer Imagine roaming through the streets of your hometown that once was a bright place, where you enjoyed an outing with your family, returning one day to see nothing but destruction, and encountering the corpses of your own family members, whose lives were unjustly taken away along with the lives of 1.5 million others during the Armenian ...

Pateel Mekhitarian Editor Armenian American Cultural Association www.aacainc.org The mission of the Armenian American Cultural Association (AACA) is “to promote cultural, educational, and scientific endeavors between the United States and the Republic of Armenia and to sponsor health and humanitarian projects for the people of Armenia.” The Arlington, Virginia-based AACA is the United States sponsor of the Armenian American Wellness ...

Staff Report This month, Dr. La Porta gave a series of talks to local and regional groups on Armenian topics. On April 13, he spoke at the annual dinner in commemoration of Armenian Martyr’s month for the First Armenian Presbyterian Church Men’s fellowship. He spoke about the significance of martyrdom in the early Armenian Church. He drew attention to the ...

Evelyn Demirchian Staff Writer On Thursday, March 11, the Armenian Studies Program’s Eighth Kazan Visiting Professor, Dr. Abraham Terian, gave an in-depth lecture on the subject of early literary responses to the Armenian Genocide. First responses of those who lived through the Genocide were written accounts of their experiences. Most of these were detailed and drawn straight from the fresh ...

Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor Amazing. Forceful. Memorable. These are only a few of the adjectives to describe the unique address given by Dr. Taner Akçam at the Armenian Genocide Commemoration attended by the San Joaquin Valley Armenian community on Saturday, April 24. This was not the first time an academic has spoken to a Genocide Commemoration audience, but it was ...

Tamar Karkazian Staff Writer If one were present at the Fort Washington Golf and Country Club Banquet Hall on March 29, 2010, they would have found their eyes scanning over a crowd of 200 students, parents, professors, and members of the Armenian community all dressed in fitted suits, tailored pants, and detailed dresses. They were gathered for the Armenian Studies ...

Editor Pateel Mekhitarian Layout Barlow Der Mugrdechian Photographers Barlow Der Mugrdechian Erica Magarian Staff Writers Evelyn Demirchian Tamar Karkazian Mari Koshkakaryan Armen Melidonian Advisor Barlow Der Mugrdechian barlowd@csufresno.edu