Randy: ...but there was no Filipino organization, I had heard that there was a Filipino organization called FASA, Filipino American Student Union... I believe they started in 1968, but there was no Filipino organization at the time and I would run into Filipino students on campus. And I actually met two Filipinos who were working in the library. One of them's name was Vicki Arias. And it turns out her sister Patricia, Pat Arias, was the founder of FASA. 

Randy: So she told me, you know, kind of a little bit of the history. And my understanding is that the history was in 1968, there was a student strike at San Francisco State University. And it was a strike based on the students' desire to establish an ethnic studies program. So that I can't remember how long that strike lasted. But ultimately, what happened from that was the establishment of an ethnic studies department at San Francisco State University. Some of the students from Hayward went to that strike, I believe, including Patricia Arias. And she came back to Cal State... it was called Cal State Hayward at the time and said to herself and a couple of other people, "Hey, you know, there's no Filipino organization here, we need to start one." So they started FASA, Filipino American Student Union, or Student Association. I'm not sure. 

Randy: By the time I had gotten here in 1970, it didn't exist anymore. I don't know what happened to it. But when I got here, there was a Mexican American Student Union, there was Black Student Union, there was an Asian student union, all these different groups, but not a Filipino group. So a group of us got together and said, you know, we really need to reestablish FASA. So, a core of us, maybe about seven or eight, met, I believe it was in 1971, at Meiklejohn and decided we should start a Filipino student organization.