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Editorial: Stop AAPI Hate Sarah Teper/Pipe Dream Photographer Following a year of escalated anti-AAPI hate crimes, BU is simply not doing enough for students April 15, 2021 On April 4th, Binghamton Pan Asian Leaders Council (BPALC) and the Asian Student Union (ASU) held a “Binghamton Stop Asian Hate Crimes Rally” on campus. It has been a year marked by viscous hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) citizens, and it has been just shy of one month since the violent shooting that claimed the lives of eight Americans, six of whom were of Asian descent, in Atlanta, Georgia. Despite this, Binghamton University only put out a statement on March 18 addressing the attack and the larger issue of targeted violence against AAPI communities. The statement, jointly released on behalf of BU President Harvey Stenger and Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Karen Jones, condemned the shooting and the sharp rise hate crimes, stating that “these ac

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