Freshman psychology major Arshia Khan has a new accolade to add to her already impressive educational achievements. Khan has been elected to maintain and design the Website for Midwest Asian-American Students Union (MAASU).
Khan was elected for her new position as MAASU Web designer at the Spring 2001 MAASU Conference at the University of Illinois. Khan was elected to the organization's Executive Coordinating Committee as the Technical Networking Chair. According to Khan, her job entails Website design and maintenance, arranging online registration and other pertinent aspects, such as e-mails and information exchange.
A National Merit Scholar on a full scholarship, Khan, who is from Chicago, graduated from the Illinois Math and Science Academy. Khan played varsity basketball for the majority of her high school career, co-founded the academy's Muslim Student Association and served as president of that organization.
As a Muslim student, Kahn said she feels that "being a Muslim in America has taken on a whole new meaning. I have become a lot more self-conscious and aware because of it." The child of divorced parents, Khan was raised primarily by her mother and step family. She has not seen or spoken with her father since she was six-years old.
"Growing up it has always been difficult in reconciling the fact that I live in a culture that is in stark contrast from the one that my mother knew," Khan said.
However, Khan never felt like a minority until she came to Ball State. Once arriving on campus, it struck her that she was different and she has become more in tune with the culture she previously took for granted. Khan said she no longer feels the desire to blend in more than her feelings of pride.
Currently a member of the Ball State chapter of the Asian-American Student Association, Khan is eager to see the association grow in strength and get the attention she feels it is not getting.
In addition to her already busy list of responsibilities, Khan is also currently working as an assistant to Bracken Library webmaster Mike Jarrell as well as working the front desk at the Indiana Academy of Mathematics, Sciences and Humanities.
Khan's life philosophy is, in her words, "quite detailed, but, in short, I feel that I should never give up despite hardship, give 100 percent to everything I do and always be proud of who I am and where I come from.
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