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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, December 05, 2005

Date

2005-12-05

Description

Includes meeting agenda, along with additional information about senate bills and bylaws.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, February 27, 2006

Date

2006-02-27

Description

Includes meeting agenda and minutes, along with additional information about senate bills.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, July 09, 2001

Date

2001-07-09

Description

Includes meeting minutes and agenda, along with additional information about evaluations regarding the Stree-Free Zone, entertainment and programming of Fall events, letters, CSUN services opperating policy, bylaws, and performance agreements.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January 29, 2001

Date

2001-01-29

Description

Includes meeting minutes and agenda, along with additional information about campus visit agreements.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, September 08, 2003

Date

2003-09-08

Description

Includes meeting agenda, along with additional information about letters and Regents Meetings.

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, August 11, 2003

Date

2003-08-11

Description

Includes meeting minutes and agenda, along with additional information about letters, advertisements, vetos, and the nonprofit corporation filing packet.

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Cynthia Mun oral history interview: transcript

Date

2021-03-31

Description

Oral history interview with Cynthia Mun conducted by Vanessa Concepcion and Stefani Evans on March 31, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Cynthia Mun discusses her upbringing near Seoul, South Korea and her family's immigration to Los Angeles in 1974. She talks about her parents' employment as a seamstress and a janitor, as well as the educational mentors she encountered who helped her to succeed at Westridge School for Girls in Pasadena and later at Yale University. Mun shares her corporate employment history, including helping to launch the Pandora streaming service and creating an accessible platform for E-book use before the creation of Amazon Kindle. Mun talks about her career working at MGM International and how this opened the door for her mother to become an MGM employee and access better working conditions with union employment.

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Catherine Cortez Masto oral history interview: transcript

Date

2018-08-10

Description

Oral history interview with Catherine Cortez Masto conducted by Claytee D. White on August 10, 2018 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Catherine Cortez Masto grew up in Las Vegas near where the town ended and the desert began, which at that time was near Decatur and Pennwood. She grew up playing in the streets and riding horses and motor bikes with girlfriends and cousins. Her father, Manny Cortez, began as a valet at the Dunes before entering politics. He served 16 years on the County Commission and then 13 years as the chief of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. As the head of the LVCVA, Manny oversaw campaigns to increase tourism, enlarge McCarran International Airport, improve taxicab service, and served as a visionary for the entire region. Catherine followed in her father's footsteps while being her own woman and making her own mark on the region. She attended college at UNR and law school at Gonzaga University School of Law. After a clerkship, she worked for a small local Las Vegas firm for 4 - 5 years, then moved to the governor's and then served two terms as Nevada's Attorney General. Currently she's in the US Senate with committee assignments that include Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Energy and Natural Resources; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Rules and Administration; Indian Affairs, and the Committee on Aging. Subjects discussed include: Dunes, Manny Cortez, County Commission, LVCVA, Judge Carl Christensen, Judge Mendoza, Taxi Authority, Tourism, and Mike O'Callaghan.

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Helen Yu oral history interview: transcript

Date

2021-12-01

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Description

Oral history interview with Helen Yu conducted by Andrew Yu on December 1, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Helen Yu discusses her upbringing in Seoul, South Korea, her grandfather's immigration to the United States in the late 1970s, and her family's decision to follow him to Portland, Oregon in 1984. She shares her family's history and their experiences during the Korean War, including what life was like both in North and South Korea at that time. Helen Yu discusses her undergraduate education at the University of Oregon studying graphic design and her graduate education at Ewha Womans University College of Art and Design in South Korea. She shares her thoughts having both a Korean American and Asian American identity, her marriage and two wedding ceremonies to her Korean husband, and her family's move to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2001. Helen Yu concludes with a discussion of her event planning work which led to her current role as the Operations Manager at the Emerald at Queensridge in Las Vegas.

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