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°Distinguished
Service Award, Graduate
Student Associations
Council,
University
of Pennsylvania,
presented Spring 1998.
°President,
Graduate
Student Associations
Council,
University
of Pennsylvania,
1997-1998; Emeritus President (ex officio),
1998-1999. Worked on committee organization,
constitutional issues, labor relaitions,
ideological harassment and free speech issues,
racial and handicap discrimination, fair use and
intellectual property rights issues, access to
health care and health insurance, TA
training.
°President,
South Asia Graduate Association
(South
Asia Regional Studies Graduate
Group
students), University
of Pennsylvania,
1992-1998. Organized social events, advocated
graduate student involvement in organizing the
annual South Asia Seminar.
°Vice
President for Academic Affairs, Graduate
Student Associations
Council,
University
of Pennsylvania,
1993-1994. Worked on constitutional issues and
committee organization.
°Chair,
Graduate
Student Associations Council
Multiculturalism
Committee, University
of Pennsylvania,
1992-1998. Helped to organize many lecture
series and discussion forums.
°Member,
Constitution Committee, Graduate
Student Associations
Council,
University
of Pennsylvania,
1996-1999.
°Member,
Unionization Committee, Graduate
Student Associations
Council,
University
of Pennsylvania,
1995-1996.
°Executive
Committee Member-at-large, Graduate
Student Associations
Council,
University
of Pennsylvania,
1994-1997.
°WXPN-FM
Policy
Board Member,
1994-1997.
°Member,
Graduate
Council of the
Faculties,
University
of Pennsylvania,
1993-1994, 1997-1998. (This is the body which
grants PhDs and regulates all doctoral programs
across the University of
Pennslyvania).
°Representative
of South
Asia Regional Studies
(SARS)
to Graduate
Student Associations
Council,
University
of Pennsylvania,
1986-1987, 1990-1993, 1995,
1996-1997.
°Alternate
Representative of Asian
and Middle Eastern
Studies
to Graduate
Student Associations
Council,
University
of Pennsylvania,
1992-1994.
°Member
of Graduate
and Professional Student
Assembly,
University
of Pennsylvania,
1992-1994, 1995-1996, 1997-1998.
°Founding
Member of the Oriental
Studies / Asian and Middle Eastern
Studies
Graduate Student Association, University
of Pennsylvania,
1990-1998, involved in negotiations with Asian
American student groups concerning issues
related to the name of the "Oriental Studies"
Department.
°Secretary
and Graduate Liason to Undergraduates,
Religious
Studies Graduate Student
Association,
University
of California, Santa
Barbara,
1983-1984. Helped to organize a fund raiser, an
academic symposium on religion and law, and a
departmental outing (a boat trip to the Channel
Islands).
Student
Conferences and Lecture Series
Co-Organized
°Forum
on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, GSAC
Multiculturalism Committee with the Yan Xin
Qigong Club, Student Health Service, and other
campus groups, Spring 1998, Spring
1999.
°Forum
on Religious Diversity at Penn, GSAC
Multiculturalism Committee with Religious
Studies Graduate Student Association, Autumn
1995, Spring 1995.
°Forum
on Ethnicity and Community, GSAC
Multiculturalism Committee, Spring
1994.
°Lecture
Series on "Gender and Religion," GSAC
Multiculturalism Committee with Religious
Studies Graduate Student Association,
1993-1995.
°Lecture
Series on "Ethnicity and Community," GSAC
Multiculturalism Committee,
1994-1995.
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