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Sunday’s meeting, attended by almost 30 students, was part of the South Asian Studies Initiative (SASI)—a subgroup of SAA which “aims to bring more faculty and classes focusing on South Asia to Harvard,” according to the group’s website...
...meeting, SASI Chair Shreya N. Vora ’06 said students should advocate for the expansion of South Asian studies, stressing “the importance of the student voice...
Agarwal is the founder of the South Asian Studies Initiative (SASI), which began around the same time that Lin was trying to move ethnic studies back into the spotlight...
...SASI sometimes collaborated with the Academic Affairs Committee, although its aims are somewhat different, Agarwal said. SASI works for South Asian regional studies, not South Asian-American studies. But Agarwal, too, thinks it is difficult to organize students behind academic issues...
Other groups could learn from SASI's example oftaking the Ivory Tower by storm. The group'sstrength should be a lesson to others who feelstrongly about the importance of their ethnicheritage. It's up to student ethnic organizationsto convince Harvard to change its offerings...