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VIBES, A Newsletter from Nepalese Student Association (NeSA) | SDSU, Brookings, SD | www.studentorgs.sdstate.org/nesa
V I B E S
N e S A S
August 2011 Issue No. - 1
L a u n c h o f N e w s l e t t e r
NeSA has initiated a new avenue for sharing the information, news and views
among the Nepalese Students and others. NeSAs VIBES is the common platform
for all of us to get connected, informed and express ourselves.
The sixth executive committee had an idea of publishing a magazine, which laterwas changed into an e-newsletter as an easy first step. This easy step was not still
the knife through butter. All the team members had to go through meetings after
meetings, numerous phone conversations, loads of emails and finally arranging,
reviewing and designing the precious contributions from the enthusiastic writers
into a beautiful mosaic.
The editorial team and NeSA committee members are thankful to all the NeSA
members for their encouragement and support to go through the venture of
launching an e-newsletter. We have put our best efforts to make this issue a good
one. With collective efforts, we can take forthcoming issues to the next level. Your
invaluable suggestions for improvements along with articles and creations are
always welcome. Please feel free to contact the editorial team.
-The editorial team
I n s i d e S t o r i e s
MOR
Design
Introduction to NeSAAdvisor and Co-advisor
A Look Back...- Sushmita Shrestha
Collage-Nepal Nite 2011
Wrong Targets-Saurav Poudel
Volleyball Match
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RYLA-Sanju Timilsina
Mention Not-Sudeep Karanjit
N e p a l e s e S t u d e n t A s s o c i a t i o n ( N e S A ) :
...is a non-profit, non-political student organization of Nepalese students at South
Dakota State University (SDSU). Besides rendering help to its members, it also
provides ground for various academic as well social activities and interaction with
other fellow students... More at www.studentorgs.sdstate.org/nesa/
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Matthew Hansen grew up in Carmel, Indiana and attended Auburn University wherehe received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering. After his undergraduate studies, he joinedthe Peace Corps and lived in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) for two
years volunteering as an Aquaculture Extension Agent, planning and building fish farms in
the region of Bandundu. Upon his return to the U.S., he went to graduate school at theUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte where he obtained a Master of Arts in Geography
and a Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering. He then worked as a Faculty ResearchAssistant at the University of Maryland-College Park, where he developed his professionalexpertise in global-scale land cover mapping using satellite-based earth observations.During this time, he obtained a Doctorate in Geography and eventually moved to South
Dakota State University to lead the opening of the Geographic Information Science Center of
Excellence (GIScCE). He worked for 7 years as the Co-Director of the GIScCE and hasrecently returned to the University of Maryland-College Park to take a position as a Professor in the Department of Geography
His wife Chouchou works in education. Matthew and Chouchou have two children, Kiese, who attends the University ofWisconsin-Madison, and Kjell, who is a freshman at Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Matthew Hansen, Ph.D (Advisor, NeSA)
EDITORIAL BOARD
Dr. Chandra Giri was born in a remote village (Chimchima, Khotang) in the foothillsof Mt. Everest. He received his B.S. in forest conservation and B. S. in Science from
Tribhuvan University, Nepal, and his M.S. in interdisciplinary natural resources planning and
management and Ph. D. in remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems from Asian
Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand. Currently, Dr. Giri is a Research Physical
Scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey/Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)
Center. He is also a guest/adjunct faculty at South Dakota State University. Prior to this, Dr.
Giri worked for the Columbia Universitys Center for International Earth Science Information
Network (CIESIN), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), AIT, and Department of
Forests, Nepal. Currently Dr. Giri is Co-advisor of NeSA from its inception.
At EROS, he leads a program on International Land Cover and Biodiversity. Hisresearch focuses on global and continental-scale land use/land cover characterization and mapping using remote sensing and
Geographic Information Systems (GIS). His recent research focused on global mangrove forest cover mapping and monitoring
using earth observation satellite data, and studying the impact, vulnerability, and adaptation of sea level rise to mangrove
ecosystems of the world integrating both biophysical and socioeconomic data. He also is researching on the development of
remote sensing based state-of-the-art methodologies to monitor carbon stocks for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and
forest Degradation (REDD) initiative. He has experience working in the private sector, academia, government, and internationa
organizations at national, continental, and global scales in different parts of the world. Dr. Giri has published more than 50
scientific publications and a book to his credit and serves as an expert in national and international working groups. He has
received several awards from USGS, NASA, and other organizations.
Dr. Giri lives in Sioux Falls together with his mom Rupa, wife Tejaswi, daughter Medhawi, and son Ashwat. His hobbies
consist of golfing, watching world cup soccer, eating at restaurants, and traveling.
Chandra Giri, Ph.D (Co-advisor, NeSA)
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Green lawns, all different
colored flowers and wide
spread trees, spring is
simply beautiful and is
Brookings during this
time. Anyone who comes
here during this time of
the year will undoubtedly
fall in love with the place.
Summer is not bad either.
B u t i t i s j u s t t h e
o v e r w h e l m i n g h e a t ,
sometimes, which tries to
encapsulate you making it
impossible to be outside
i n t h e l u s h g r e e n
environment. Winter on the other
hand is extremely generous. With a
maximum of -40F degree, makes yourealize what a real winter
is. Coming from
K a t h m a n d u
which rarely has
any snow fall,
Brookings makes
me realize how
different it is in
t e r m s o f
geography and
c l i m a t e .
N e v e r t h e l e s s ,having gone through all the seasons
of the year, now I truly know what it
holds and has for us.
Peaceful environment, cozy
life style, affordable living and a
wonderful school really made me
love Brookings. It is in fact the best
transitional place for a person
coming from Nepal to US for the
first time. In the past one year, I got
ample opportunities to visit manyneighboring states and cities. Be it
Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas or
Minneapolis, life is always in a rush.
You have opportunities but yo
should also be ready with the hustle
and bustle of the city. High living
c o s t , h e c t i c
s chedu l e s , o v e r l y
crowded communities
and never ending race
to meet. That pac
keeps you striving
m o r e a n d m o r e
making the real you
h i d d e n f o r e v e r .
Brookings keeps us
alive in the way we
are.
N e S A ( N e p a l e s e
S t u d e n t ' s
Association) has provided a platform
for all the Nepalese here in the
state. It has been able to bind together and m a i n t a i n
community which
can share and
enjoy moments
together. Th
a n n u a l
ce lebrat ion of
Dashain is the
best example
where we get
a l o n g w i t h
everyone around and havesome quality time with feast and fun.
Staying away from home and family
is the toughest thing to do but these
gatherings helps heal those pains
and gives us a refreshing start. It is
very appreciable how NeSA executive
members have volunteered their
precious time to make the bond of
love, understanding and brotherhood
alive among ourselves.
Long Live NeSA!!!Long live our community!!!
Peacefule
nvironment,
cozylife
style, affor
dable livin
g and a
wonderful
school real
ly made
meloveBro
okings
SUSHMITA SHRESTHA
A L O O K B A C K . . .COMMITTEE
RajBhandariChemistry , PhD Student
President
MandiraSigdelPhuyalGeography
Graduate Student
VicePresident
DilipDachhepatiElectrical Engineering
Graduate Student
Secretary
Good writers are those who keep the language efc ient . That is
to say, keep i t accurate, keep i t c lear .
-Ezra PoundEzra Pound (18851972), U.S. poet, critic. The ABC of Reading, ch. 3 (1934).
SaurobKadariyaComputer Science
Under-Graduate Student
JointSecretary
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Its about time our rant on ourpoliticians gets louder. Yet another deadline
for new constitution is about to pass and we
are understandably furious. Chautari, chiya
pasal, bhatti, expensive pubs or even
abroad, we discuss the same thing. Our
Facebook news feed and twitter time-linewill be cluttered with outcries like how
wretched our country has become and how
there is no hope for Nepal. But wait, there is
hope. People offer solutions too, like killing
politicians or hoping for a miraculous mass
demise of all of them, bringing back King,
trying Army regime etc., etc. All these
wonderful ideas (or lack of it) have one
thing in common, they all are either
ludicrous or mostly not in our control. But
the interesting thing is, we never talk about
the most feasible idea. How about voting
them out of power or stop following them?
Isn't that the most obvious thing to do?
After all, we made them politicians and
politicians can only go where we allow them
to go.
Its not that we don't have anydecent politicians, we do, but most of them
are impotent as they lack followers. In
election we vote candidate based on their
race, caste and most importantly who is
likely to advance our personal agendas
(getting promoted, landing jobs, settling a
court issue or helping to get an importantdeal done) rather than national agendas. A
corrupt society always promotes and
supports corrupt politicians. Its not that our
society was perfectly fine to start with, and
politicians later ruined it. We always have
been corrupt and have never seriously tried
to counter it. We are hypocritical about
corruption. Corruption and favoritism is
treason if we arent a part of it but if we are,
its fine and even have a perfectly logical
explanation for it. Everybody is corrupt and
what I do dont make any difference, I
cant change anything alone, Its ok as long
as nobody knows and a proper paper work
is done Now our guy is PM, this is my only
chance to land a job.
Politicians dont address mostpressing national issues because they are
too busy addressing personal issues.They
are smart enough to understand what they
need to do to
r e m a i n
influential. The
other problem
i s w e v o t e
extreme end of
spectrum. The
two b iggest
p a r t i e s i n
c o n s t i t u t i o nassembly are
Maoists and
N e p a l i
C o n g r e s s .
Ideologically,
they are like
night and day. First is obviously a
communist party, whose ultimate aim is
Peoples Republic and the other believes in
democratic socialism. No wonder, they don
come to terms. We vote extremes because
as a nation we arent sure what we want. We
claim to know politics. We actually claim tobe expert in politics but that doesnt change
the fact and the fact is no we dont. We don
know because be just talk, we just repea
the politicians sound bites. We actually
arent either capable of understanding o
dont want to spend time to understand it
but too hesitant to admit it. If we can take
some of our time from mindless politica
gossip and spend it in understanding
politics and fact-checking politicians, we wil
do a lot better.
We all claim to care about thecountry, but if everybody does care why isn
country moving forward? There must be few
reasons, a few people to blame. We
certainly cant blame ourselves because tha
will mean we will have to change, we wil
have to make sacrifices. So, politicians are
convenient targets and our favorite punch
bags. Blame it on politicians is the mantra
I am not trying to defend politicians; they are
indefensible. I am just not attacking them.
am attacking our mindset. I dont believe
politicians ruined us; they merely took
advantage of ever-present ruins. They don
deserve more criticism than us. Change
does happen, provided we choose to
become proactive rather than reactive. Nex
time when we are frustrated and want to
blame, if we choose to look in the mirro
before looking at Singhadarbar, we might
have a chance.
SAURAV POUDEL
W R O N G T A R G E T SCOMMITTEE
SomNathKhanalBiological Science/Dairy Science
Graduate Student
ExecutiveMember
SiddhiJeewanBhusalPlant Science
Graduate Student
ExecutiveMember
PrajwalBikramThapaElectrical Engineering
Graduate Student
Webmaster
ParagAdhikariElectrical Engineering
Graduate Student
Treasurer
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I cannot meet ur expectations
I choked up a number of times
I dont care about the rules
and fines,
pennies or dimes
I may go far beyond and do
the crimesI was said to speak for half a minute
when I had things to say multiple infinite
I was told to be specific and say something specific
At such time
how my mind would work to blurt something terrific
somehow I managed to say
few particulars and some clich
after my turn I heard an inner sigh
but I would have to confront the final goodbye
I choked up again a number of times
I wish I had control on myself as in these lines
even with heavy heart I managed the rhymes
may be out of tunebut sounding somewhat sweet like wind chimesIts the matter of bonds and strong emotions
with the people, god made our relations
its difficult to be accurate and rational
control oneself and become practical
-SUDEEP KARANJIT
M E N T I O N N O T
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