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Nikhilesh M. Korgaonkar '95, the SAA academic and political chair, says the group is working to have a voice in administrative affairs...
...What I'd like to do is secure a place for SAA on the Foundation [the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations]," Korgaonkar says. "The biggest thing that AAA has that SAA doesn't is that they can get the University to look at them...
...SAA was originally created as a social organization. Last year, when the group spoke out against the invitation of City University of New York professor Leonard Jeffries to campus, it took a political stance for the first time in its history...
However, members say this step was preceded by many other shifts in the way the SAA operates. Two years ago, the organization decided to expand its executive board to include eight members: president, treasurer, social coordinator, academic and political coordinator, liaison, publicity coordinator and two members-at-large. Since then, the members-at-large have been replaced by a gender issues coordinator and an executive coordinator...
...emphasis on academic and political affairs was shown clearly last year during a campaign by the organization to keep Ali S. Asani, an associate professor of Indo-Muslim culture, at the University. Asani remained at Harvard, and the effort encouraged a more active policy for the SAA, members...