The homepage of pensandoxibanya.com on Feb. 22, 2021. Stony Brook welcomed three Chinese Spanish artists, authors and activists to speak in a lecture series beginning on Feb. 17.
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A tremendous wave of anti-Asian racism following the coronavirus pandemic experienced in the last year has led to a global Twitter campaign, #NoSoyUnVirus, or #IAmNotaVirus, in which participants counter racism toward the Asian community.
Chinese Spanish activists Quan Zhou, Chenta Tsai and Jiajie Yu Yan joined Stony Brook University to discuss anti-Asian racism and Chinese diasporic identity in “Pensando Xībānyá: Voices from the Chinese Diaspora in Spain” on Feb. 17, one lecture in a three-part lseries.
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COVID on Campus: The Pandemic’s Impact on Student and Faculty Speech Rights
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I: Introduction ▲
It’s difficult to find any aspect of our lives that has not been impacted by COVID‑19. Travel, holidays, business, entertainment, and much more look completely different today than they did a year ago. As K–12 and college students, faculty, teachers, and administrators know all too well, education has been deeply changed perhaps permanently by travel restrictions, school closures, and the switch to online education.But COVID‑19’s consequences for education have not been limited to location, access, or, in the University of California, Berkeley’s case, temporary bans on outdoor exercise. On campuses across the country, speech and due process rights have been challenged, too, as administrators struggle to respond to the pandemic. At the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), we have been paying careful attention to how these
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Nadia Hernandez, Assistant News Editor|February 7, 2021
President Joe Biden signed four executive orders to promote racial equity in his first two weeks in office.
The orders included reaffirming tribal sovereignty, ending federal funding in private prisons, condemning discrmination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and ending discrimination in federal housing policy.
“I think they’re a good start,” said College Democrats of Illinois President Daniel Green. “I was most interested in the executive order that the Federal through the Department of Justice is using private prisons because that’s a really important step. The idea that no one should make a profit off of incarceration is really important to racial justice and obviously I don’t think it goes far enough, but it’s a really good start.”