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Information For Sichuan Earthquake Donations
On May 12 2008, quake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province in southwest China at 2:28 p.m., resulting in nearly 20,000 deaths reported so far. Tremors were also reported in over half of China's provinces and municipalities, according to the China Seismological Bureau.
You can make earthquake donations through many ways. Please show your love to those people need your help.
Donations link from Red Cross China, Red Cross HongKong, Consulate-General of the PRC, Red Cross America, MercyCorps, or Red Cross Canada.
To make sure your donations go to where they needed ASAP, direct donations to China or HongKong is preferable. Your kindly donations will be highly appreciated.
Autonomous Tibet, Part of China
We provide some links about Tibet history and what happens in Tibet nowdays:
One book for Tibet's history and cause of Tibet issue, click here for detals(Chinese).
A scholar we highly recommemded: Dr. Melvyn C.Goldstein and his book A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, you may find other useful information from Dr. Melvyn's website.
A scaned book shows human rights in Tibet, see here.
A book shows what CIA did in Tibet.
Some pictures showing the life of slavery before 1959(under Dalai Lama's govern) and a video to clafify the political history of Tibet.
Or if you would like to see here for some evidences of terrible Serf's life in Tibet. We also suggest you to find more evidences in museum, such as Asian Art Meseum of San Francisco.
To see the Dalai Lama's hidden past.
From a western visitor's viewpoint's Tibet. Or Tibet from two American's eyes. And some more videos 1.
To listen Professor Michael Parenti's comments for Dalai Lama, and to see his article, this professor is from Yale University.
Dalai Lama and Dorje Shugden, 1 2 3
What's the matter with Tibet? by Lisa Carducci
To see what had happened in Tibet on March, 2008, click here, and some videos 1 2 3 4 5 6, and more 7 8 9 10.
Then let's take a look what Behind The Disturbances In Tibet.
Other interesting websites 1 2.
Olympics torch relay in Paris on 7 March, 2008
Let's see how those tibetan separatists destroied Olympics torch relay and attacked the girl on the wheel chair who was holding the torch.
We have a question, VIOLENCE or PEACE?
2007 Mid-autumn Festival Party
CSSA will hold this event to celebrate Mid-autumn Festival, one of the most important traditional Chinese festivals. This year, the event will be open and free to everyone. Come and join us!
Everything will be free, everyone will be happy!!!
The details are as follows:
Time: 6 pm, Oct. 8th (Monday)
Place: Social Hall, Student Union
This event is co-sponsored by
Graduate Student Association at University at Buffalo
Verizon Wireless
Key Bank
HSBC Bank
Uncle John¡¯s No. 1 Chinese Restaurant
Gin Gin Chinese Restaurant
Golden Duck Chinese Restaurant
Peking Garden Restaurant
Grand Buffet
Red Pepper Vietnamese & Chinese Restaurant
IEGSA at UB
Vietnamese Club at UB
CSSA E-Board Election 2007
CSSA is going to hold its e-board election for the 2007 period. During several activities, I think you already have some ideas about CSSA; yes, we are an association whose aim is the serve the Chinese community and bring convenience and joy to you, our friends.
As the 2006 CSSA members, we did pay our efforts and try our best, but we know there are a lot to improve, so if you are willing to serve the Chinese community, if you have some ideas to carry out, if you believe that you can do better, come and join the election, the stage is ready for you.
Following are the details of the election:
Positions for election:
1 President, 1 Vice President, 1 Treasurer, 1 Secretary
Election method:
On-site voting (No on-line voting)
Participation deadline:
March 30th (Friday), 12am (Mid-night)
Voting Time:
April 4th (Wednesday), 12pm - 5pm
Voting Place:
311 Student Union, UB North Campus
Voting method:
Fill out a ballot (will be available from April 1st on CSSA website and on April 4th in 311 SU) and vote into the collection box during our voting time at the voting place.
Regulation:
- Candidate must be a graduate student in CSSA member list at UB
- Voter must be a currently enrolled graduate student at UB
- Voter must show his/her UB card to election committee officers before voting
- One vote per person
- must vote in person
Preparation:
Every candidate must prepare a personal statement (i.e. an election statement), which will be posted on CSSA website for all people to review. Please send the personal statement by March 31st to Peng,Xujun at xpeng@buffalo.edu with an email whose title format is ¡°Name, Running position¡±.
To ensure the safety and fairness of the election, candidates and other people who help for the election campaign should not stay at the 3rd floor and stair ways in Student Union during the voting time. Violation of this rule may cause the invalidation of the candidate¡¯s voting result.
The election will be supervised by an election committee, whose members are neither members of the current e-board nor the candidates for election. The current election committee members are: Kanke Gao, Yang Liu, and Xin Liu.
For more details, please visit our website: http://www.gsa.buffalo.edu/cssa
Candidates
Voting Sheets
Election Poster
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