From: cnd-us@cnd.org (CND-US Editors) Subject: CND-US, November 18, 1995 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ US Regional November 18, 1995 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CND-US, normally 1 or 2 issues a week, is a supplement to CND-Global and | | has basically no overlap with the CND-G news. CND-US provides in-depth | | information concerning Chinese students/scholars in the United States. | +-------------------------------ISSN 1024-9141-----------------------------+ Table of Contents # of Lines ============================================================================ 1. News Brief (4 Items) ................................................. 80 2. Markup for Simpson Bill S. 1394 Postponed Until November 29, Which Grants More opportunities for the Public to Respond ........... 130 3. Where to Find out the Information on Simpson Bill S. 1394? ........... 20 4. Letter from Reader: My Suggestion to Action on Stop Simpson's Bill ....................... 40 5. Senator Simpson's Reply Letter ....................................... 70 6. Job Openings, Assistantship and Conference Info (5 Items) ........... 125 ============================================================================ CND is a free network news service run by volunteers. To subscribe to/unsub. various CND Services and/or for more information,see trailer of the package. CND-US is published by China News Digest International, Inc. All rights are reserved. Redistribution is hereby permitted provided that it is not for profit and with proper acknowledgement to CND. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. News Brief (4 Items) ................................................. 80 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [NASFA, 11/17/95] For those of you making phone calls to certain Federal Offices in Washington D.C. and wondering why you are not getting any answers, Visa Services of the State Department (including Eleanor Harris' office for Advance Notification) and the USIA are among those which are closed. Also, many visa issuing posts overseas have closed their non-immigrant visa sections as well. Among those offices which are open is the INS Vermont Service Center, which is fully operational according to the information officer whom I spoke with yesterday. It seems that since the service center is funded through fee income, it can continue to operate. ... I have spoken to one of the ombudspersons at the Nebraska Service Center today and was told that they are at still fully operating, unaffected by the shutdown. ... I called INS in Cincinnati this morning to see if they were keeping appointments for PR interviews and was told that Examiners are still on duty, since they are paid out of "user's fees," and not regular money. However, the front desk is not working and so they can only take in applications, but they will not be processed until the clerks and others are back, since they are the ones who know how to handle incoming applications and EAD's and things like that. (Forwarded and Summarized by: Bo Xiong) ___ ___ ___ According to news from Beijing, the health of Chen Ziming, who was suffering from cancer and was imprisoned again after a surgery, is deterioting. His wife, Wang Zhihong, lost her job and lived on their saving in the past few years. Recently their bank account was frozen and no explanation was provided. This has cut the Wang Zhihong's living and the badly needed medicine for Chen Ziming. Right now Wang lives with Chen Ziming' mother, a retired scholar. We are students from China. Based on humanism we call for help from overseas Chinese students and scholars. Please donate for the badly needed medicine of Chen Ziming and his family. Please make the check payable to Mrs. Wu, Yongfang, Chen Ziming's mother, and send to Hu, Hai, 52 Little Robin Rd, Amherst, NY 14228. We will forward it to Mrs. Wu. Or, if you like to send the check directly to Chen' mother, please send to Mrs. Wu, Yongfang, Unit 2, apt 1, Buiding 10, Ren Ding Hu Xi Li Beijing Xi Cheng, Beijing, P.R.China, Tel. 86-10-201-0260 If you want to donate through a third party, please make the check payable to Hu Hai, 52 Little Robin Rd, Amherst, NY 14228. (From: XI CHEN , 11/16/95) ___ ___ ___ WW II Japanese Atrocities Photography Exhibit - A national tour of photography exhibit will take more than 150 pictures to Stanford University for an eight- day exhibit. The local exhibit is organized by the Bay Area Chinese Student Association and Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Stanford (ACSSS). The pictures are provided by the Alliance for Preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War (APTSJW). Where: Bechtel International Center, Assembly Room (Close to Tresidder Union). Between Mayfield Avenue and Lagunita Drive, Off Campus Drive East. When: November 28th (Tuesday) through December 5th (Tuesday). Monday through Thursday 9:00AM - 10:00PM Friday 9:00AM - 11:00PM Saturday 5:30PM - 11:00PM Sunday 4:00PM - 10:00PM The national tour of photography exhibit of UNIT 731, Comfort Women, and other Japanese wartime atrocities in China is back into the San Francisco Bay Area after it was taken to Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, St. Louis, Atlanta-GA, Norfolk-VA, Newark-NJ, New York, Rochester-NY, Minneapolis, Fresno, and Toronto. Future destinies include Boston, San Diego, and Rochester-MN. In addition, there will be a second visit to Seattle, and possibly also Washington. Part of this exhibit is also made available by the Chinese News Digest (CND) on the Worldwide Web at URL: HTTP://www.cnd.org/NJMassacre/ Please call J.J. Cao at (415) 497-7408 or Christine Chu at (408) 252-8981 for additional information. (From: Ignatius Ding 11/17/95) ___ ___ ___ A friend of us got a brain tumour in the position of thalamus (Xia4 Shi2 Qiu2), which is about 2-3 cm large and develops very fast for only 1-2 months. The tumour made him feel painful and resulted in the bad vision, and currently his situation is getting worse quickly. The patient is at Shanghai Hua Shan Hospital which is the best one there for brain operation. However, the doctors there feel frustrated that the operation will be too difficult to be successful. The patient is right now under the treatment of the isotope Co-60. The relative of the patient is searching for any information and advice available from USA that might be helpful to the case. The relative phone no. is (908) 412-1494, Li, Feng and e-mail address is yan@hydro.mps.ohio-state.edu (From: Yuejun Yan, 11/16/95) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Markup for Simpson Bill S. 1394 Postponed Until November 29, Which Grants More opportunities for the Public to Respond ........... 130 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: IFCSS HQ NR #7054 11/15/95 Update Information on Simpson's Bill 1. More than twenty local CSSAs or coordinators nationawide start to mobilize their local communities to respond to the bill S 1394, as we are informed. The proposed strategies, listed in HQ NR #7052, are, to forward the relevant messages and sample letters to Chinese community or other ethnic groups, to reach your President and deans of univer- sities, and CEOs of your employers if you are in business society. * * * * * 2. IFCSS HQ has got very positive response from NASFA officials, and NAFSA has initiated a campaign nationwide to appeal to all foreign students and educators for immediate actions. * * * * * 3. Simpson Bill S 1394, originally scheduled for mark-up on 15 - 16 of November, has now been postponed until Nobvember 29th for a varie- ty of reasons, which will grant more opportunities for the public to respond. * * * * * 4. Senators will have a Thanksgivings Recess, and will be at their home districts from November 17th through the 27th of November. Please schedule fax or letter drives directed to their district offi- ces, or visits with the Senators during the recess to weigh in on the Simpson Bill. * * * * * 5. Among seven members of the subcommittee, three are the Democrats which many lobbyists bear hope for. They are Edward Kennedy (MA), Paul Simon (ILL) and Dianne Feinstein (CA). We must make every effor- ts to show them that anti-business and anti-immigration bill S 1394 is against the will of the business society, the interests of the United States, and undermine the competitive strength in the world both in a short and long run. Senator Arlen Specter (PA) is one of Republic Presidential Candidate for 1996, who has been undertaking a vigorous campaign. He is supposed to listen to constituents' voice more patiently. * * * * * 6. IFCSS has still in the process of preparing public advertisements in major news medis which depends on the support of CSS community. As suggested by many members in the past 48 hrs, we will put "Wall Street Journal" as the top priority. Please rush the donations to the IFCSS Headquarters: 733 15th St. N.W. Suite 440, Washington D.C.20005. * * * * * 7. Several pieces of messages are followed for your reference: A Letter to the President of University of Michigan prepared by "Stop S 1394 Working Committee). We suggest all CSSA or other CSS organiza- tions on campuses do the same thing as soon as possible: Dear President Duderstadt: We are writing to bring to your attention the anti-immigration bill that will be put on vote on November 16th in the U.S. Senate Immgration Subcommittee, the passage of which will substantially jeopardize the interests of our university. Recently, US Senator Allen Simpson has introduced a bill in the senate which will restrict the ability of US colleges and universities to attract and retain foreign students and scholars. Currently, there are 4,100 foreign students from over 100 nations enrolled at all levels of learning at the University of Michigan; and a substantial number of post-degree foreign professionals work for the university as professors, research scientists, lecturers, research associates, technicians, and postdocs. If the aforesaid bill passes, its implementation will only adversely affect institutions such as ours because a major source of talented and qualified undergraduate, professional, graduate students and postdocs will be effectively eliminated. The closure of employment opportunities for foreign-born professionals will inevitably lead to an outflow of a great number of bright and hard-working foreign students and post-docs from our universities and will eventually devastate our university's ability to attract the best pools of young students and scholars from abroad. The National Association of Foreign Student Advisors has put out an urgent call opposing this bill. Deans and presidents of colleges and universities throughout the nation are writing letters and making phone calls to their senators urging them to vote NO on this impending bill scheduled for floor votes on Nov.16. The magnitude of this vehement campaign mirrors what happened earlier this summer on the funding crisis for scientific research. This fight is more serious because it threatens the supply and quality of a work force and student community; a struggle you endorsed through the Michigan Mandate; a struggle in which we are only beginning to realize success. As a leader in one of the key public institutions for learning, your opinion and persuasions on this issue will play a significant role when the Senators are trying to make informed decisions on this bill. We hereby urge you to join us in our fight against this bill and issue an official letter to oppose this immigration bill, S 1394! Sincerely, STOP S1394 WORKING COMMITTEE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ____ ____ ____ Two automatic mailing accounts have been established for sending mails directly to all seven Senators by friends in UCLA and U. Mich. immigration@sunlab.ph.ucla.edu stop_s1394@umich.edu ____ ____ ____ Phone Fax Alan Simpson, Chair R-WY 202 224-3424 224-1315 Charles Grassley, R-IA 202 224-3744 224-6020 Jon Kyl, R-AZ 202 224-4521 224-2207 Arlen Specter, R-PA 202 224-4254 228-1229 Edward Kennedy, D-MA 202 224-4543 224-2417 Paul Simon, D-IL 202 224-2152 224-0868 Dannie Fenstein D-CA 202 224 3841 228 3954 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Where to Find out the Information on Simpson Bill S. 1394? ........... 20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Compiled by: Bo Xiong The anti-immigration bill S. 1394, also known as Simpson Bill, derived from H.R. 1915 and H.R. 2202, is being considered in the US Congress. There have been nation-wide campaigns against the S. 1394, to find out information on the bill and the campaigns (and their organizers), PLEASE SEE FILES us.hr1915-1 through us.hr1915-5X (upadtes will be added) in cnd.org directory ~ftp/pub/InfoBase/simpson-bill via anonymous ftp or http://www.cnd.org/ (see Server Announcement). The files were archived in numerical order per the time CND-US received. Full texts of the bills can also be found in above places. If you need help in accessing those files, please send an e-mail to cnd-info@cnd.org Update/more information may also be found from UCLA CSSA WWW Server http://caledonian.cs.ucla.edu:80/~cssa/#Affairs or from WWW Server http://www.fairus.org/ (the Federation for American Immigration Reform) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Letter from Reader: My Suggestion to Action on Stop Simpson's Bill ....................... 40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _From: ZLI@opus.mco.edu 11/17/95 Subject: My suggestion to action on stop Simpson's bill Dear editor I am much appreciated to your recent action in helping all interest-related people sharing information about what's going on on the Simpson's bill. Here, I would like to share some of my opinions on actions to stop the Simpson's bill and expect more from my friends. First of all, I think it's important to urge all interest-related people to act right now and make it clear that no matter who you are and where you are, every call, fax and e-mail will be counted by the Senator office. I have found quite a few people don't believe their action will be acknowledged and wait for "more important people" to act. Second, we need more support from outside, e.g. from our friends, instructors, advisers and more who will not be affected by the bill but could be against the bill. It's important for all of us to appeal to any posssible supporter that may exert influence on the bill. Third, I personally believe that the Simpson's bill is popular(actually, all anti-immigration related bill is popular at present time and that's why they keep doing that) and it would be a better strategy not generally target the whole bill but instead find individual provision that could be overruled. For example, it makes no sense for U.S. to spend lots of money to train international students but "expel" them right after they receive degree since it's well-known post-graduation training is so essential that the 2 years out-of-states requirement provision of the bill is actually make U.S. waste money in training international students! My point is if every one can find one point is unreasonable in the bill and elucidates their viewpoint, why we can't win the battle! It's good to know so many people have joined in. But time is so limited I'd like to urge my friend - please hurry up, we don't have time to wait! Sincerely Yours Zhuqing LI ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Senator Simpson's Reply Letter ....................................... 70 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _From: vince@dgii.com (Vince Mar) 11/16/95 Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Subject: Senator Simpson's Reply Letter I sent out a letter concerning S. 1394 a couple days ago and received the following reply. I thought someone may interested in what's in his mind... Thank you for your Internet message regarding S. 1394, the bill I recently introduced to reform U.S. law on legal immigration. A large majority of the citizens of the United States have made it clear they believe that the national interest of their country requires a significant reduction in legal immigration. A recent article reviewing 11 major polls, shows that well over 60 percent of the American people favor a reduction in immigration, according to most polls since 1980 -- and this has included legal immigration whenever it was specifically asked about. My bill is intended to respond to this public concern in a way that is consistent with American family values and the long-term needs of U.S. employers and U.S. workers. It would reduce the annual level of regular non-refugee legal immigration from 675,000 to about 540,000. This would include a limit on employment-related immigrants of 90,000, approximately the current annual level of skilled-workers and their spouse and children. S. 1394 also proposes major reform of the criteria for selecting immigrants. The bill would reserve family-sponsored immigration for "nuclear family" members, the spouse and unmarried minor children -- those most likely actually to reside with the relatives in the U.S. with whom they are, in theory, being "reunited," and the family unit believed by the American people to be so important for raising healthy, productive, and happy children. Under current law, nuclear family of immigrants often must wait years, while relatives in other classifications enter much sooner. Two other groups likely to reside with their U.S. relatives could also be admitted: certain elderly parents of citizens and the disabled sons and daughters of citizens or permanent resident aliens. In addition, the bill would provide 150,000 visa numbers per year to reduce the current backlog of spouses and unmarried minor children of permanent residents. The proposed changes in the employment-based classifications are intended to enable U.S. employers to obtain skilled foreign workers when they are genuinely needed, in a manner that is consistent with the national interest in protecting the wages and job opportunities of U.S. workers (especially those first entering their careers) and in preserving long-term incentives for Americans to acquire needed skills and education, and for employers to encourage them to do so. The bill would replace the present system for screening potential immigrant workers for possible harm to the wages and jobs of U.S. workers. The present system is very expensive and time-consuming for employers and provides U.S. workers little real protection. Under the new system employers genuinely needing a foreign worker could obtain one quickly, with minimum "red tape." Petitioning employers would be required to attest that efforts had been made to recruit U.S. workers consistent with industry standards and to describe such efforts. They would also pay a one-time fee of 25% of the first year's compensation for immigrants under several of the professional and skilled worker classification (or between 5% and 10% per year for certain temporary workers).The goal is to make an employer's cost of obtaining and employing a foreign worker as expensive as the cost of paying a professional recruiter to find a U.S. worker and then paying the worker's wages and benefits. The fees would be paid into private, industry-specific funds, which would use the money to finance training or education programs or in other ways to reduce the industry's dependence on foreign workers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Job Openings, Assistantship and Conference Info (5 Items) ........... 125 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summarized by: CND-US 1) From: vickiec@iwnet.com (Vickie Chen) 11/15/95 Want to join an energetic team in the booming Internet industry? Here are exciting full-time and internship opportunities: Group Required Skills/ Qualifications ------------- ------------------------------- Engineering C-Programming Unix System Administration HTML Web Site HTML Production Corel Draw Photoshop Copywriting Note: All position required fluency in Chinese and English. To respond, please send cover letter and resume to vickiec@iwnet.com or PO Box 4660 Santa Clara, CA 95054 PS. We will be beta testing our new site 5 days from now. But feel free to check it out at your convenience. The URL address is: http://www.ccchome.com ___ ___ ___ 2) From: John Thomas 11/16/95 Applications are invited for a Ph.D studentship in one of the following areas: !. REAL-TIME COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION OVER COMPUTER NETWORKS OF DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA 2. REAL-TIME AND SAFETY CRITICAL ISSUES IN ROBOTIC MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS For the first project, previous knowledge of computer communications/networks is essential. Knowledge about Multimedia systems is preferred. For the second project, previous experience in formal methods is required. Previous knowledge of real-time systems is advantageous for both projects, but not essential. Good programming skills are essential for both projects. Applicants for the studentship should hold or expect to hold a good B.Sc honours degree (or an M.Sc) in a relevant discipline. The studentship is fully funded for 3 years (subject to satisfactory performance), with a starting total of 8470 Pounds Sterling in 1995-96. This covers the student's fees at the home postgraduate rate (2430 Pounds Sterling in 1995-96) and a stipend (6040 Pounds Sterling in 1995-96) paid in quarterly instalments. APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE MADE IMMEDIATELY. For further details please contact: Dr J P Thomas Department of Computer Science The University of Reading Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AY, UK Tel: 01734 875123 Ext. 7631 Fax: 01734 751994 Email: J.P.Thomas@reading.ac.uk URL: http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/cs/vacancies/studentship3.html ___ ___ ___ 3) From: akd1@cornell.edu (Ashim K. Datta) 11/16/95 Subject: PhD/Post-Doc opportunity Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the following position has become available once again and I am reposting the previous message: I am looking for somone with background in both electromagnetics as studied in electrical engineering and heat transfer as studied in mechanical/chemical engineering. I have funds for a post-doc for about one and a half years at Cornell University. I could also be interested in a PhD student instead. Depending upon the current degree of the prospective student, she/he would need to pick up background in either heat transfer (mechanical/chemical engineering) or electromagnetics (electrical engineering). The project involves combined thermal-electromagnetic modeling of heating in a domestic microwave oven. It is quite interesting and challenging academically, and would be of great practical use. It is fully funded by a presigious national agency. I am looking for someone highly motivated for such a project and is excited about making important contributions. ___ ___ ___ 4) From: sgu@moe.cc.utexas.edu (Sylvia Gu) 11/17/95 We expect to have a number of research assistantships available starting January, 1996. These positions are for students who are committed to do Ph.D dissertation research. Students with a mater degree already referred. Following positions are available for your applications: 1. High speed electrooptic modulator. Need strong background in microwave transmission line design and familiar with bandwidth measurement up to 100 GHz. This position has to be a US citizen 2. Optical control of microwave signal. Need to know optical holography, antenna theory, conversion of optical signal to microwave signal through optical heterodyne technique. 3. Computer architecture for the implementation of optical interconnects. Need to have strong background in both computer architecture specially related to parallel processing and photonic devices. 4. CMOS Process-compatible Optical Interconnect Technology. Basic understanding of Si-based microelectronic device fabrication is required. Interested students shall contact Dr. Ray Chen's secretary Teresa Perryat 471-7035 to set up an appointment or send your resume to raychen@uts.cc.utexas.edu Also see our web page at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~mrcwww/ ___ ___ ___ 5) From: Guo Jin 11/17/95 Subject: International Conference on Chinese Computing '96 (ICCC'96) This is the last Call For Paper for the International Conference on Chinese Computing '96 (ICCC'96) to be held in Singapore. Note the deadline is approaching (Dec. 15). You may also notice those of our invited speakers and a hint on potential financial support. 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