Pacific Coast Conference charter members were the University of California (now University of California, Berkeley), the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). Rivalries between the Pacific Coast Conference schools grew beyond athletics, with animosities around educational, financial and state rivalries. The tensions between the California and Northwest schools extended to Edwin Pauley, a regent of the University of California, disliking the member universities in the Pacific Northwest enough to advocate that the California institutions leave the Pacific Coast Conference to form a "California Conference." The PCC had a history of being very strict with
California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs the political, economic, and social issues of Asians and Pacific Islanders in California by contributing to and strengthening how state government addresses the needs, issues, and concerns of the diverse and complex Asian and Pacific Islander American communities. The charge of the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs is to: Nitasha Sawhney, Chair<br> She was appointed to the commission in 2005 by Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and nominated by Congressman Judy Chu. Sawhney was of the four appointed to the commission in 2010 and will be on the board until Jan. 1, 2014. She was re-appointed to