Tag: Colored Only
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Students Educate and Speak Out against Racism
In response to the racist sticker left on a water fountain in Humanities and several acts of prejudice in Lefevre Hall, students at SUNY New Paltz assembled in the Student Union (SU) on Thursday Nov. 17 to discuss the severity of the epithets, and their effects on the campus community. “Colored Only,” met in SU…
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Response to Racism Sweeps Across Campus, then Nation
As a result of the racist messages and graffiti that appeared around campus last week, the SUNY New Paltz community response has been swift and unified in denouncing the behavior. College President Donald Christian has sent not one , but two e-mails to the entire SUNY New Paltz community, both explaining the situation and condemning…
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SUNY New Paltz Race Dialogue Continues
Ustream live coverage by Roberto X. Cruz Recently, multiple racial epithets have been found on the SUNY New Paltz Campus. [For the news brief, click here.] Jonathan Espinosa, a third-year Black studies and sociology major, was walking through the Lecture Center with his friend when his friend noticed a sticker on the water fountain…