cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-535
title: Bryan Shaul
title: Kent State Massacre: The Day the War Came Home

description: Bryan Shaul was born in Northampton, Massachusetts and grew up in a small farming community southwest of Mansfield, Ohio. He attended Northwestern University as a journalism major, but lost focus and dropped out in his second year. When he returned home, he supported himself by booking local rock bands with one of his high school friends. With the Vietnam War ramping up it was not a good time to be male, single and self-employed. Bryan decided to return to college joining many kindred spirits seeking to get a II-S draft deferment. With some experience running his own business, Bryan decided to major in accounting. Bryan chose Kent State University because, at that time, Kent had a respectable accounting program. This time Bryan would have to pay the bills for his education. He was able to convince the administration at Kent State administration that he could attend undergraduate school while functioning as a grad counselor in one of the dorms. Grad counselors received free room and board and a private suite. Bryan received his undergraduate degree a year after the shootings. Recently, Bryan retired and now divides his time between a cabin on the lake in Cascade, Idaho and a condo on Main Street in Huntington Beach Adan Macias is a senior from Los Angeles, CA majoring in architecture. Riley Mathies is a junior from Newport Beach, CA majoring in communication, minoring in entrepreneurship. Matthew Parvizyar is a senior from Los Angeles, CA majoring in real estate (PPD). Murphy Sharma is a sophomore from Fort worth, TX majoring in chemistry (pre-med).
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-621
title: Robert Hardy
title: U.S. Counterinsurgency in Vietnam

description: Robert Hardy was born in Illinois in February of 1946 where he grew up. It took him 35 years to get his college degree, however, he was very persistent, picking up units wherever he could. He attended the University of North Carolina, Fayetteville State University, and Cochise College. He left college only to be drafted into the military, he decided rather than be drafted and put into infantry as a "target" he would volunteer in the US Army and work in counterinsurgency. After retiring Robert was a restaurant owner and now lives in the Los Angeles area and teaches at the University of Southern California. Andy Benesh is a Junior, majoring in Communications with a minor in Business; Alec Phillips is a Junior majoring in Environmental Studies; Diana Ramos is a Senior majoring in Biomedical Engineering; Tae Hyup Ha is a Junior majoring in sociology
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-697
title: Jerry Van
title: We Were Going to Vietnam

description: Jerry Van is a Vietnam War Veteran and member of the Los Angeles Chapter of Veterans for Peace. He currently helps setup the Arlington West Memorial next to the Santa Monica Pier every weekend. His grandfather was a World War I veteran and his father was a World War II veteran. He graduated high school in 1965. Two years after in 1967, he was given a court order for training. At that time, he was a mechanic that worked closely with truck engines. Since he was diagnosed medically for his heart disorder and wasn’t fully cleared by his doctor, he was offered work as an engineer instead of working as a foot soldier. Christine Nielsen is a Communication and Entrepreneurship student from Norway. Luis Villanueva studies Business at the Marshall School of Business Kevin Lee Studies Business at the Marshall School of Business Matt McKinney studies Business at the Marshall School of Business. He enjoys traveling and has his own business.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-754
title: Cassandra Lam
title: From Refugees to Living the American Dream

description: Cassandra Lam is a 19 year old Vietnamese-American who currently attends UCLA as a 2nd year studying English and Political Science.  Born in June 7, 1991 in West Covina, she aspires to attend law school upon completion of her undergraduate degrees so she can be a District Attorney for the city of Covina.  Cassandra serves as an ideal candidate to interview for this project as her parents have direct affiliations with the Vietnam War.  Both of Cassandra's parents were refugees of the Vietnam War, escaping to the United States right before the turmoil of the war peaked.  Cassandra's parents escaped to tell their children of the disparities between life in the States and life in Vietnam. Cassandra and her sister's life trajectory greatly differs from their disadvantaged parents.  With the opportunities that exist for her in the U.S, Cassandra plans to live the American Dream without any oppressions like her parents faced.  Her family's experiences in the war truly depict a heart wrenching story that exemplify strength in the midst of hardship and war. Nick Khoury is a Los Angeles native and Senior business major at the University of Southern California.; Hao Yuan Li is a Senior studying International Relations at the University of Southern California. He plans to pursue a Master degree in Regulations at the London School of Economics. He is a Bay Area California native.; Judith Lee is a Senior studying Gerontology at the University of Southern California. She will graduate with her undergraduate degree in May 2011, and plans to receive her Master of Science in Gerontology in May 2012. She is from Orange County California.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-843
title: Kevin Bui
title: A Can of Coke

description: Kevin Bui was born in Saigon, Vietnam during the Vietnam war. At the age of 15 in 1981, his family decided to leave everything behind and escape the country as boat people. The journey by boat was extremely difficult, with cramped quarters, dirty water, and lack of food. After the arduous journey by boat, Kevin's family stayed in refugee camps in Singapore and Indonesia. After over a year in the camps, his family received airplane tickets and were able to come to the United States, where the Bay Area became their new home. He worked very hard to build a new life in America, obtaining a college education and raising a family. Today, Kevin is a software engineer at eBay Inc. in San Jose, California. Stephanie Bui, Andrew Lin, and Bulat Bayminov are all students at the University of Southern California. Stephanie Bui is a sophomore from San Jose, California majoring in Human Biology.; Andrew Lin is a senior from San Marino, California majoring in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Bulat Bayminov is a sophomore from Ulan-Ude, Russia majoring in Economics with a minor in Business.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-855
title: Le Ly Hayslip
title: Forgiveness

description: Ly Le Hayslip was born in Ky La, Central Vietnam, in 1949. When she was 12 years old, American helicopters landed in her village. She endured torture in a South Vietnamese government prison for "revolutionary sympathies" at the age of 14. Her adolescence was torn by the Vietnam War, and she has been a victim of the horrors of the war for most of her life. She moved to San Diego, California, in 1969, and has lived in America since then. She has written the memoir "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places" (which inspired the film Heaven and Earth) and the memoir "Child of War, Woman of Peace." In 1988, she founded the "East Meets West" Foundation, which physically and emotionally helps to rebuild lives on both sides of the world. Through her foundations, she became a bridge builder by bringing American groups back to Vietnam to help restore her motherland and open the dialogue between the two nations. Manny Raposo is a freshman at USC from Discovery Bay, CA; Zhen Jin is a senior at USC from Westlake Village, CA; Lelaina Stowell is a sophomore at USC from Washington, District of Columbia; Nora Ruoxu Wang is a senior at USC from Hefei, China.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-86
title: Tito Melara
title: An Immigrant's Experience in Viet Nam

description: Tito Melara was born in El Salvador on January 4th, 1945. In the midst of 1960's liberation conflicts in El Salvador, Tito decided to move to the United States to pursue an education. During the process of his immigration to the United States in 1965, he was served with a draft notice. He did not yet speak English, and experienced great difficulty integrating into American culture. Immediately prior to his transfer to Basic Training, he married his love, Virginia, also adopting her 12 children. In October of 1968, he deployed to Viet Nam. During his time overseas, Tito was stationed in Ben Hoa, Phu-Bai, and Hue. He says that the one thing that sustained him in absence of his family was the ability to read and write letters. In 1969, Tito returned to the United states. Since his deployment in Viet Nam, he has experienced numerous health issues related to the war, including an almost-fatal bout with cancer. He has yet to find resolution with what happened during the war, but leads a very happy life in Fields Landing, California. Christopher Orenic and Danielle Then are USC students participating in the research project via an American War in Viet Nam course.
DOI: 10.25549/prim-c46-5873
title: A Japanese banker's point of view : lecture by Masahiru Shimizu, 1989

description: AASCU's Japan Studies Institute in 1989 was held in San Diego from June 21 to July 14, under the direction of Alvin P. Coox and featuring lectures by specialists in a range of subjects within Japanese studie.
DOI: 10.25549/prim-c46-5980
title: Religion in Japanese politics : lecture by Toshikazu Takao, 1989

description: AASCU's Japan Studies Institute in 1989 was held in San Diego from June 21 to July 14, under the direction of Alvin P. Coox and featuring lectures by specialists in a range of subjects within Japanese studies.
DOI: 10.25549/prim-c46-5999
title: News from Japan : lecture by Broderick, 1989

description: AASCU's Japan Studies Institute in 1989 was held in San Diego from June 21 to July 14, under the direction of Alvin P. Coox and featuring lectures by specialists in a range of subjects within Japanese studies.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-125998
title: Selection criteria for group treatment: An exploratory study
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-417007
title: A quantitative acquisition process modeling approach toward the expediting of systems engineering

description: A correlation and linear regression analysis were conducted to examine the significance of predictive variables in expediting systems engineering. The study various programs and explored their current systems engineering process. The specific areas studied were the process completion time and descriptive program significance. The process under review maintained sequential phases and the relationships between each phase and how they impacted the overall number of days to process completion was studied. This resulted in the identification of trends in shorter prior phases extending to longer follow-on phases and the overall resulting of increased times to completion. This provided a means to quantify the different factors that involve, impact, and interface with the early-systems engineering process in Department of Defense acquisition.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-172
title: Kinh Vu and Tien
title: Vietnamese people were ignorant

description: Both interviewees, Kinh Vu and Tien, were born and lived in North Vietnam in Hanoi. After 1954 when Vietnam was independent from French colonialists, both chose to move to South Vietnam for a better living. After the Vietnam War broke out, they both joined the South Vietnam army and fought the war. After the war, they were both put into re-education camps. After being released in 1984, Vu Kinh (Vu as family name and Kinh as given name) fled to the U.S. as boat people and settled in Orange County. After four years in 1988, Tien moved to the U.S. through the Humanitarian Operations program for former re-education camp prisoners, and also settled in Orange County. They both have strong feelings against the North Vietnam regime and declined to have their faces shown because the topic about the war is still controversial and their points of view are radical. To protect themselves from unnecessary troubles, they refused to publish their faces. Zhehao Cai is born and raised in Shanghai. He is a currently a USC freshman student majoring in Applied math. Tuan Kieu is born and raised in Hanoi. He is currently a junior student in USC Marshall majoring in administration. Derek Lin is born in Northern California and grew up in Fresno. He is currently pursuing a bachelor of arts in communication at Annenberg School at USC with three minors, computer programming, cinematic arts and consumer behavior.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-220
title: Kenn Miller
title: I Feel For Them All

description: Kenn Miller (b. 1948) is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. From 1967 through 1969, he served three voluntary extensions of his combat tours in an Airborne Ranger company in Vietnam. He was a Long Range Patrol team member and team leader in LRRP Detachment, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division; F Company 58th Infantry (LRP); and L Company 75th Ranger. After his military service, Miller returned briefly to the United States, then moved to Taiwan. After marrying and returning again to America, he studied history and English at the University of Michigan. He then worked as a physical education teacher, auto worker, ghostwriter, and part-time editor and “book doctor” for Ballantine Books, Ivy Books, and the Naval Institute Press. Miller now lives in San Gabriel, California. Curren Mehta is from Seattle, Washington, majoring in applied and computational mathematics and minoring in computer science. John Wang is from Taipei, Taiwan, majoring in architecture. Shabina Rayan is from Seattle, Washington, majoring in computer science and business administration. An Vo is from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, majoring in economics.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-232
title: John Wolcott
title: There and Back [to the Cave] Again

description: John Wolcott was born in El Paso, Texas. He attended the University of Colorado Boulder but withdrew. He was drafted to the war shortly thereafter. Wolcott was selected for the officer training program but rejected this offer and was automatically sent to ground infantry, serving first with the 4th Infantry Division and then with the 25th Infantry Division. He returned from the war in January 1968. He would go on to obtain a PhD in Vancouver and currently holds the position of Senior Computer Consultant in the USC department of Occupational Therapy. He has a wife, son and daughter, and has worked for USC since 1989. Joshua Wood is a sophomore from Saratoga, CA double majoring in film and economics. Colly Liu is an international student from Zhuhai, Guangdong, China in her sophomore year studying business. Alan Adams is a junior from Minneapolis, MN, pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. Nina Campbell, a senior from Los Alamitos, CA, is studying public relations.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-272
title: Tam Duong
title: Tam Duong

description: Tam Duong was born on New Year’s Day 1962 in the Quang Tri, Vietnam. His province, a border city in Central Vietnam, was the site of great conflict between South and North Vietnam. When Tam was 16, his province fell to the offensive attacks of the North Vietnamese, and the Viet Cong took everything from the Quang Tri civilians. Tam’s father was placed in a re-education camp due to his involvement and association with the US government. Tam was forced to leave school and work as a lumberjack to support himself, and his 3 siblings. Even after his father was released Tam felt the constraints of the Viet Cong; he felt his family was being constantly patrolled and his father consistently on edge. In 1995 Tam and his family were given the opportunity to come to the US via the McCain Program geared towards refugees that lived in re-educations centers for more than 3 years. Tam now lives in Santa Ana, California with his family. Pradeep Nadeswaran, Kellyna Fox, Zhenyu Wang, and Nolan Simone Talavou are students at the University of Southern California. Nolan and Pradeep are both from Southern California. Nolan is studying International Relations and Global Business. Pradeep is studying Biology and Economics. Kellyna is from Hawaii and is studying Gerontology and Fine Arts. Zhenyu is from China, and it studying Accounting.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-328
title: Phu Diep
title: Phu Diep

description: Phu Diep is about 42 years old and he escaped Vietnam when he was 4 years old. He is currently a high school math teacher and works with students with disabilities. In the past, he used to work as a contractor for the US government and the State Department by traveling overseas with the VISA program to educate people about the program in the United States. Darren Draper is a senior at USC studying civil engineering and music. He is originally from Manhattan Beach, California and the youngest of five.; Carra Rooke is a senior from Malibu, California majoring in psychology at USC.; Fiona Kohlman is a sophomore from Half Moon Bay, California majoring in International Relations and Global Business.; Carsten Vissering is a freshman at USC and competes on the USC swim team. He is originally from Bethesda, Maryland.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-49
title: Thomas Paul Chambers
title: The Men with Painted Faces

description: Thomas Paul Chambers served two tours in Vietnam from 1966-67 and 1968-69. He served in an infantry company during his first tour. Shortly after returning to the United States, he volunteered for a second tour where he served in an elite Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol or LRRP Company. During his second tour all LRRP units were reorganized into the 75th Ranger Regiment and re-designated as Rangers; as such he holds the rare distinction of being a founding member of the 75th Ranger Regiment. Thomas Paul Chambers is one of the rare few to have served as an Infantryman, Airborne Infantryman (Paratrooper), LRRP Operator, and Army Ranger. Upon leaving military service, Thomas Paul Chambers worked for the LA Unified School District for thirty years. Tom has recently retired and is finishing his first novel. He remains proud of his service to this day. Basil Ballard is a senior majoring in political science. He has a long term interest in the politics of the Vietnam War - as well as a lifelong interest in military history and statecraft.; David Laughton is a Junior majoring in business.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-523
title: Tuan Nguyen
title: A Lucky ARVN Veteran from Saigon to the US

description: Tuan Nguyen was born in Vietnam in 1953. He graduated from high school and started studying law in Sigon. However, Tuan was drafted in the ARVN in 1972 at the age of 19. After serving in the army for about one and a half years, Tuan moved up to become a Second Lieutenant in February 1975. Tuan fled Saigon with his mother and other relatives in April 29, 1975 with a US Navy ship. Tuan made several stops before he settled in the US. He stayed at a refugee camp in Guam, where he found a family in a Lutheran Church that sponsored him and his mother. Tuan was assigned to a small town in Illinois at first. He moved around the country for several year until he settle in Souther California. He got married in 1991and had one daughter and one son. Sofia Cuellar studies International Relations at USC. Dan Li majors in Business Administration and is an active member of Undergraduate Student Government. Ben Benet is a GeoDesign major and Environmental Studies minor. Yuping studies Business Administration at USC Marshall.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-655
title: Betsy Starman
title: "Nobody Came Home Unaffected" - Perspective from an Anti-War Protester

description: Betsy Starman was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1949. She spent most of her childhood and adolescence in Atlanta, where she experienced the transition to the “hippie” era as well as the Vietnam War. Betsy became addicted to drugs during this time period, and was involved in the anti-war movement. After people were drafted and began to return from the war, she moved to California to avoid having to see her friends come back as changed individuals, or not coming home at all. Now that she has been clean for 28 years, Betsy works as an addiction treatment specialist. She opened her own business approximately 12 years ago to help establish treatment centers and provide addiction outreach on Skid Row. She has a daughter who is currently attending Pepperdine University. Nathan Lee is a sophomore, born and raised in SoCal, studying Business and Communication Design at USC. Alec Morris is a graduating senior from New York studying Music Industry at USC. Rebecca Seifert is a sophomore from Arizona, who is currently studying Biological Sciences at USC. Christine Shiau is a sophomore from Kansas studying Chemical Engineering at USC.
DOI: 10.25549/viet-c80-689
title: Michael Rank
title: College Student at War

description: Michael Rank is an associate professor at the USC School of Social Work. He was an infantryman in the Vietnam War, from 1969-1970. Dr. Rank was a senior studying accounting when he decided to drop out and volunteer in the Army to fight in the Vietnam War. His choice to go to Vietnam was out of curiosity and also to make a difference. He wanted a change in his life, because as he puts it accounting wasn’t for him. His father was a World War II veteran who became anti-war later in his life. As a young man Rank participated in both anti war protests as well as pro war protests. He knew about Vietnam as a country but despite research he couldn’t understand why Americans were fighting in that part of the world, so he wanted to see for himself. In Vietnam he was chosen by the Department of Defense to be an infantryman. He was stationed in Chu Lai. When he came back from the war, he attended Bloomsburg University majoring in Sociology. He then went on to get his Masters in social work at Bryn Mawr College and a PhD in the same subject from the University of South Carolina. Rashid Binnur is a freshman majoring in Public Relations and planning to double minor in Information Technology and Business Entrepreneurship. Mia Poynor is a freshman majoring in Health and Human Sciences with a focus in International Health. Timothy Woodson is a senior majoring in Psychology and minoring in EALC studies with and emphasis in Chinese.
DOI: 10.25549/prim-c46-5890
title: Introduction to the Japanese economy : lecture by Alvin Coox, 1989

description: AASCU's Japan Studies Institute in 1989 was held in San Diego from June 21 to July 14, under the direction of Alvin P. Coox and featuring lectures by specialists in a range of subjects within Japanese studie.
DOI: 10.25549/prim-c46-5894
title: Japanese education : lecture by Alvin Coox, 1989

description: AASCU's Japan Studies Institute in 1989 was held in San Diego from June 21 to July 14, under the direction of Alvin P. Coox and featuring lectures by specialists in a range of subjects within Japanese studie.
DOI: 10.25549/prim-c46-5926
title: Japanese hegemony : lecture by Chalmers Johnson, 1989

description: AASCU's Japan Studies Institute in 1989 was held in San Diego from June 21 to July 14, under the direction of Alvin P. Coox and featuring lectures by specialists in a range of subjects within Japanese studie.
DOI: 10.25549/prim-c46-6004
title: Survival Japanese : instruction by Noriko Kameda, 1989

description: AASCU's Japan Studies Institute in 1989 was held in San Diego from June 21 to July 14, under the direction of Alvin P. Coox and featuring lectures by specialists in a range of subjects within Japanese studies.