Penn State Chinese Friendship Association

Dear Friends,

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Game will have its Openning Ceremony this Friday. We won’t have a live show on TV in the US. The NBC channel will put on the ceremony on 8:00pm local time. If you want to be with other friends to celebrate this great moment and watch the openning ceremony together, we will have a great event in front of HUB.

We will get together in front of HUB about 6:45pm this Friday and RUN on campus. You can see the route on the flyer. We will prepare our national and olympic flags if some of you would like to run with them.

Those who just run for fun, can run as far as you want. For those who want to run more competitively, we will count the first 20 runners that finish 2 rounds. Small prizes will be provided for them.

Please do not worry about how far and how fast you can run. We just want to let the community know about the great moment and show our happiness. By the way, policemen are hired to guard each crossing so we are safe to run as crazy as we want !

Free pizze and drinks will be served after the running.
We will ask the HUB to turn to NBC channel and Watch the Openning Ceremony together in front of the big screen inside HUB.

We also call for the VoLunTeers to help us organize this special events.

Please send email to: Pu, Na           puma.sarah@gmail.com
if you either want to participate as a RUNNER or as a VOLUNTEER
with the following information:
Name; Email; Phone number; Do you have a car (only for volunteers).
She will contect you soon.

Just ask any friends to join. We will occupy the HUB that 8.8’s evening and memorize the great moment together.

Penn State
Chinese Friendship Association

亲爱的Penn State的中国朋友们 大家好,

宾夕法尼亚州立大学中国学生会(Penn State Chinese Friendship Association) 2008-2009届团队自从2008年3月组建以来, 一直积极努力和往届的成员们配合, 为大家提供帮助和服务.  在辅导员陈功老师的监督下, 我们在5月初进行了简单的换届仪式, 正式从上届成员们手里接过了接力棒. 随后, 大家又立即投入到新学期的活动和服务的准备当中去了.  在这里, 我谨代表Penn State CFA 2008-2009届团队全体成员和身边所有受到过大家帮助的朋友们, 对于大家一直以来给予学生工作的理解和给予身边中国同胞的支持表示感谢. 我们也希望大家会一如既往的互相团结, 互相帮助, 把Penn State 中国社区建设的更好, 使我们能够在异国开心的学习和工作, 愉快的生活.

同时, 我们也欢迎和期待更多有兴趣和我们一起用自己的业余时间, 来为中国社区做些工作的朋友们加入中国学生会. 我们期待能有更多有趣的想法和更加丰富的活动奉献给Penn State的中国同胞.

宾夕法尼亚州立大学　中国学生会主席

李宁

After months of effort, the New Student Handbook for 2008-2009 has been finished and released. The pdf version is available now by clicking:

new-student-handbook-08-09.pdf

We strongly recommend that every new student coming to Penn State this fall should print it out and read it through before the arrival. We will also print a certain number for those who wants to get one after arriving.

The new online service (http://www.psucfa.org/newstudent/) aims at facilitating the new students pickup process. Through this service, new students can sign up for airport pickup and check the status of their requests. Volunteers can view the personal and trip information about new students who need help and select the student(s) they want to pick up.

If you encounter any difficulty while using the service or have any suggestion, please contact our webmaster.

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The Pennsylvania State University
Chinese Friendship Association

Dear fellows,

First, thank all for coming to the Vigil for 5/12 Earthquake Victims yesterday, and we were again truly shocked by the displayed graphic images of destroyed buildings, dismayed residents and perished victims in Sichuan. But still, we see hope from people helping each other, soldiers devoting themselves rescuing victims, and fellows from all over the world including here, at Penn State, giving what we can give to relieve our motherland and her people’s pain.

We sang “Ai De Feng Xian” together to give our deepest condolence and our greatest emotional support to people in this disaster. Led by Pastor Lin, we prayed for more lives saved from the disaster and the bettering of the situation in disaster area. We have written down words praying for China and her people and signed our names on cards, which we will preserve forever. And we donated, to support the rescue and recounstruction.

By 12pm May 14th, we have received $2286.23 donation. All donation will be sent to China through Consulate in New York.  And now we are applying for an account at local bank to accept donation through check. We will let our fellows and the Penn State community know about the information when the account is ready. And we can also donate through the 3 means mentioned in the 5/12 appeal.

Let’s bless China and her people suffered from this disaster, and let’s contribute to help our motherland overcome!

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The Pennsylvania State University
Chinese Friendship Association

Dear all,
 
In response to the wide appeal for mourning over the victims perished in the earthquake that shook China on May 12, we have applied for the use of Old Main area tonight from 8pm to hold a vigil. CFA will provide candles and holders, and will accept on site donation which will be sent to our motherland directly. If you can, please bring your card/notes with your words to the victims and prayer for our motherland, and we will try our best to help our community convey our feelings.
 
Please do help spread this urgent information to your colleagues and friends in your departments, apartments, neighborhood through talk, cell phone or email. And we do appreciate our fellows’ effort in making all community aware of this event. Thanks very much!

Bless our motherland!

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The Pennsylvania State University
Chinese Friendship Association

Dear all,

We have been enormously shocked by the devastating earthquake in Sichuan today. CFA encourages all Chinese community members at Penn State to donate through following media to support our motherland and her people in critical situations:

1. China Red Cross (http://redcross.org.cn). More details of the official appeal can be found at the link below:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2008-05/13/content_8156665.htm

The official donation page (busy but accessible): http://202.108.59.10/wsjz/wsjz.asp

2. PayPal account on MITBBS: contactmitbbs@gmail.com . Detailed information can be found at the link below:
http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/sysop/31168784.html

3. Through Chinese Consulate General in New York
Make check payable to “Chinese Consulate General in New York” with the memo “Earthquake Relief Donation” Mailing Address: Liu Lei,520 12th Ave, New York, NY 10036
Detailed information (although not updated yet, CFA has confirmed with the consulate the validity of donation with memo “Earthquake Relief Donation”) can be found at:
http://www.nyconsulate.prchina.org/chn/note/t405912.htm

We thank all for attending to this issue and wherever we are, we need to unite to overcome any difficulty lying in front of us! Let’s pray for our country and do whatever we can to make through this havoc! China will never be brought down in any adversity!

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The Pennsylvania State University
Chinese Friendship Association

Dear all,

We now announce that the Immigration Seminar by Law Offices of Scott Warmuth will be held tomorrow, Saturday, April 26 at 104 Thomas Building. Food and refreshment will be provided. Please pass this information around and share with fellows who may have concern over the legal issues on immigration.

Here are the seminar poster, introductions to the firm and the attorneys (Mike and Scott).

Thank you!

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The Pennsylvania State University
Chinese Friendship Association

April 23, 2008, Old Main, The Pennsylvania State University

Dear Fellow Chinese and friends from all over the world:

First, on behalf of Penn State Chinese Friendship Association, I would like to thank you all for being here at our Penn State Chinese Community Supporting Beijing Olympics Rally. We thank local and motherland Chinese communities for generous support that makes this Rally possible! And we thank our university for offering us such a great opportunity to gather here today and express our support for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games!

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Dear all,

We made it!!!

Thanks to the tremendous support from Penn State Chinese community and our fellows in motherland, the Rally today was a real success that touches everyone’s heart! We are proud to be Chinese, and remember our final slogan? “WE ARE PENN STATE! WE LOVE CHINA! WE SUPPORT OLYMPICS!” Let’s keep moving on together to make our voice heard,  to make China proud, and to make Beijing 2008 Olympics a glorious success!

We have created a special page for the rally today in response to our fellows’ kind request. Please follow the link below:

http://psucfa.org/g/rally-42308/

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The Pennsylvania State University
Chinese Friendship Association