Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Records of the Virginia Tech Asian American Student Union
Virginia Polytechnic Institution and State University. Asian American Student Union
RG.31.14.07a
0.7 Cubic Feet
1 box, 1 oversize folder, 1 roll storage tube
1997-2018
This collection contains event posters, DVDs, VHS tapes, a cut-out from the Collegiate Times, and a painted muslin canvas created by the Virginia Tech Asian American Student Union.
The materials in the collection are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Records of the Asian American Student Union, 1997-2018, RG 31/14/7a, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
Source of Acquisition
The Records of the Asian American Student Union were transferred to Special Collections and University Archives in 2019.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Records of the Asian American Student Union commenced and completed in November 2022.
Administrative History
The Virginia Tech Asian American Student Union (VTAASU) was founded in the early-1990s, in either 1991 or 1992. The VTAASU acts as an umbrella organization for the Asian/Pacific Islander/Desi American (APIDA) organizations on campus. The organization's mission statement is to "strive to enhance and further the individual, cultural, and ethnic diversities that exist in the APIDA communities" and to "make efforts to address the problems, issues, and concerns of the APIDA communities to the administration and other fellow student organizations".
Source:
Virginia Tech Asian American Student Union Gobbler Connect Website
Scope and Content
This collection contains event posters, DVDs, VHS tapes, a cut-out from the Collegiate Times, and a painted muslin canvas created by the Virginia Tech Asian American Student Union. The majority of this collection is made up of event posters and audiovisual materials created by the VTAASU.
Arrangement
This collection contains one series and a number of items not organized into series.
Series I: Events contains event posters, video recordings, and other items related to events hosted by the Asian American Student Union.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
The guide to the Records of the Asian American Student Union by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).
Asian American college students
Students and alumni
University History
Virginia Polytechnic Institution and State University. Asian American Student Union
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-)
Virginia Polytechnic Institution and State University. Asian American Student Union
"AASU Budget Stuff" (1 CD, 6.5 MB)2000-200111September 13, 2001, Collegiate Times, Front Page (laminated)2001-09-131Scope and ContentFront page of the Collegiate Times newspaper dated September 13, 2001, including articles about the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the reaction of the campus community, and Virginia Tech's fourth annual Celebration of Diversity which was held as plabnned on September 12, 2001 rather than being cancelled.
Chinese American Society Scrapbook1997-199816April 16, 2007 Condolence Card from the Asian-American Association of the University of Missouri-Columbia2007-0417Asian American Student Union Painting1.5 Cubic Feet1 canvas rolled in a storage tubeunframed muslin with unsealed acrylic paint6' x 6'undated2Series I: Events2001-2018Ken Oak Band "AASU Tsunami Relief Benefit Concert" (1 DVD, 4.33 GB)2006-1012"AASU 10th Annual Cultural Exhibition" (2 VHS Cassettes)2001-1013Demo Tapes "Devotion/Christy Medrano/Epic Voices/Eliot Chang" and "mindtricks" (2 VHS Cassettes)undated14Demo Tape "6th Day" by Prince/SF Productions (VHS Cassette)undated15Eliot Chang Autographed Headshotundated18"Wale and N.E.R.D." Event Poster2010-04-2219"Ang Aming Sakripisyo: Our Sacrifice" Event Poster2012-04-071"Song of Korea" Presented by the Korean American Student Association Poster2012-03-311"Hung Pham and the Memo Stone" Presented by the Vietnamese Student Association Poster2013-04-061"VTAASU Presents: Spectrum - A Night of Cultural Performances"2013-11-131"MAUSAM Seasons of Love" Presented by the Society of Indian Americans Poster2012-04-071"Eliot Chang's Easily Excited Comedy Tour" and "VT Asian American Student Union's Culture Show"2012-11-301"VT Asian American Student Union Presents: Kina Grannis"2013-04-281"Claiming Our History, Rewriting the Narrative" Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Events Poster2018-041