Game Night *CANCELLED*

Dear members, the game night scheduled for Wed Mar 07 has been cancelled due to problems in finding a room. We are extremely sorry for informing you so late, but we will try every effort to make sure all other events go as planned.

Thanks for understanding.

-SSA Board 

  Sunday, Mar 07, 2007

Special thanks to Manohar's Delhi Palace

SSA would like to thank Manohar's Delhi Palace for providing Samosas for Dhoom 2 movie night. 

If you guys are ever craving Indian food, this place is the BOMB.

582 S. Azusa Way
LA Puente, CA 91748

Owner: Manohar (Mike) Bhatia
Call: 626-964-0343

  Sunday, Mar 04, 2007

 

Did you miss our last general meeting on Feb 28th? Here's a breakdown of what happened:

• Talk by guest speaker, Sanjam, about his incident at the bar in Pierce Street Annex

• Presentation by Sandeep Grewal and Kunal Kamboj on Sikh symbols (Khanda, Ek Ohm Kar) and their significance

• Presentation by Jaspreet Gill on Gurmukhi and a read a story, click here to read it

• Announced upcoming events

 

  Thursday, Mar 01, 2007

 

Sikh Acts Against Alleged Discrimination

LEGAL: A UCI medical student takes legal action after being denied entrance to a bar due to his turban.

When first-year medical student Sanjam Singh Samagh was questioned about his ID while trying to enter the Pierce Street Annex in Costa Mesa, it was not about his age, but rather because his profile picture showed him wearing a turban.

Samagh, a Sikh who wears a turban for religious reasons, is now working with the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund to take action against the Pierce Street Annex and the UCI Medical Department is officially boycotting the club.

<<Story taken from http://newuniversity.org>>

  Read more Saturday, Feb 17, 2007

 

SSA Langar Sewa

SSA would like to thank all its members for contributing their time and effort to prepare langar for the homeless. We are going to have langar sewa at the Santa Ana Gurdwara on a regular basis and hope that you will come and support us again!

  Monday, Jan 29, 2007

 

Popular Costa Mesa Restaurant Denies Entrance To Sikh American 
Man Solely Due to his Religious Affiliation

On January 25 2007, Stanford alumnus Mr. Sanjum Paul Singh Samagh (BA '05, MS '06), a first year medical school student at the University of California - Irvine Medical School (UCI SOM), was denied entrance to the Pierce Street Annex, in Costa Mesa, because his religiously mandated dastaar (or turban) was a violation of the business's "no hats" policy.

  Read more Monday, Feb 05, 2007