On Thursday May 6, Afro-American Society (AAS) held a silent protest in Upham Quad demanding changes from President Damián Fernández and the Eckerd administration regarding diversity, equity and inclusion issues on campus.Â
Eckerd students sit under the shade near Franklin Templeton during the protest. Eckerd students and faculty hold posters and show support for their Black peers. Photo by Carter Weinhofer
At 11:30 a.m., around 200 students, faculty and staff sat in silence to show support for Black voices on campus. At noon, they listened to AAS members give speeches for the next 30 minutes. Campus Safety and Security approved the protest, along with the sign-making event AAS held Wednesday night on Fox patio.
The way our justice system usually works, it relies on people talking to other people, in person, sometimes under oath.
For most of a year now, though, itâs been inadvisable at best, dangerous at worst, to get together and hash out our conflicts the normal way.
The police, the jail, the constables, the courts, the attorneys â theyâve all adapted on the fly, sometimes creatively and productively. They use Microsoft Teams, for example, for many court hearings. But the system isnât built for this and is starting to bend under pressure.
The details are as nitty-gritty as this: Pima Countyâs 10 constables, preparing for a possible January onslaught of evictions they have to carry out, say they donât have enough personal protective equipment. They often end up inside peopleâs homes, dealing with them face to face, with just a cloth face covering and maybe gloves.
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