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Demovictory9's Journalusing the lounge while black
Cherry was invited to teach a graduate critical theory seminar course and conduct graduate studio visits for painting and printmaking grad students during the fall semester. She commutes from New York to Richmond every two weeks to teach at VCU. Last week, she was beginning her day by sending out emails, sitting in the adjunct lounge of the Fine Arts Building. The room is code-access only, for faculty, administration, and graduate students.
As Cherry was working, an older, non-black gentleman entered the lounge.
“I say hello and he sort of comes in, doesn’t do anything, doesn’t verbally acknowledge me and walks back out of the room,” Cherry said.
Minutes later, campus security arrived to ask Cherry to show her VCU identification card. After providing it, Cherry began to absorb what had happened.
“I left the classroom to walk around, and I saw the same gentleman in a classroom. I realized he was a fellow painting and printmaking professor,” Cherry said. “I didn’t know his name, so I looked at him to make sure I could say who it was. I was going to send an email to the chair of my department and tell him what happened.”
Cherry sent an email to Painting and Printmaking Chair Noah Simblist, who apologized for the incident and said they would look into the matter.
After giving security the name of the man she thought made the call, Simblist confirmed it was associate professor Javier Tapia. The reason why Tapia, a Peruvian-born Associate Professor in VCU’s Painting & Printmaking Department, called campus security is still unknown at this point. Tapia did not respond to RVA Magazine’s requests for comment.
“If I didn’t have my ID on me at the time, it would have been possible that I would have been removed from my own classroom — or removed from the building until somebody identified me,” Cherry said.
“It’s a greater issue of what Javier Tapia had to have thought… To think that not only did I not belong in this locked classroom — but that I wasn’t even given the privilege of looking like a graduate student, or any student in the building. I think he was shocked to find out that I was a visiting professor.”
https://rvamag.com/news/community/what-happens-when-a-vcu-employee-calls-security-on-a-black-professor.html
Methodist Church Sign Subtly Criticizes U.S. Use Of Tear Gas At The Border
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/methodist-church-tear-gas-sign_us_5c002044e4b08506231abd1a
Utah police officer spent hours watching a woman's children while she filed a domestic violence repo
Utah police officer spent hours watching a woman's children while she filed a domestic violence report
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/29/us/officer-watches-kids-trnd/index.html
Trumps must be broke as hell or super money hungry. Look at this ornament
For sell by the Trumps
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800 Faculty and 1700 students receiving hockey pucks to carry / to thwart shooters
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Faculty members at Oakland University in suburban Detroit have received hockey pucks and are being trained to use them to potentially thwart active shooters.
WDIV-TV reports the American Association of University Professors distributed pucks to its 800 members.
Faculty members at Oakland University in suburban Detroit have received hockey pucks and are being trained to use them to potentially thwart active shooters. Photo: Walik/Getty Images
Faculty members at Oakland University in suburban Detroit have received hockey pucks and are being trained to use them to potentially thwart active shooters.
University Police Chief Mark Gordon says to fight effectively, faculty and students need to be prepared to throw heavy objects that will cause a distraction. Gordon says pucks fit the bill and can conveniently be carried in brief cases or backpacks.
The faculty union also is working with student groups to distribute an additional 1,700 pucks to students.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/education/article/Faculty-trained-to-use-hockey-pucks-to-thwart-13425758.php
Labor secretary accused of giving wealthy alleged pedophile 'deal of a lifetime'
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/11/28/politics/alex-acosta-jeffrey-epstein/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2FReport: Labor secretary accused of giving wealthy alleged pedophile 'deal of a lifetime'
By Eli Watkins, CNN
Posted at 7:02 PM ET, Wed November 28, 2018
Washington (CNN) — When he was a US attorney in Florida, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta gave accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein the "deal of a lifetime," the Miami Herald reported Wednesday.
In a sweeping review of the politically connected multimillionaire's case, the Herald explained how Acosta made an agreement with Epstein to avoid major repercussions for the hedge fund manager, even though a federal investigation identified 36 underage victims.
The report said Acosta forged a deal with one of Epstein's attorneys where he pleaded to two state prostitution charges, ultimately serving only 13 months and avoiding a federal trial. The agreement, the Herald said, "essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe" and further granted immunity to "any potential co-conspirators" in the case.
Epstein also registered as a sex offender and paid restitution to the victims identified by the FBI.
Connecticut schools ban lunchroom visits from parents, too many were eating lunch with kids
Connecticut schools ban lunchroom visits from parents
"So many parents had begun attending lunch that principals felt they were affecting the day-to-day running of the elementary schools," said Board of Ed Chairman Tara Ochman.
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DARIEN, Conn. — One mother shed tears when she read the superintendent's announcement. Another said it felt like a body blow.
After struggling with growing numbers of parents in school cafeterias, the Darien school system said parents and guardians would no longer be welcome to visit with their children during lunch at the town's elementary schools.
The decision has stirred strong emotions in Darien, a wealthy shoreline community that prides itself on its high-performing public schools. While some parents said it was time to stop a disruptive practice, others have protested at town meetings and in online forums that the change has deprived them of cherished time to check in on their children and model good social behavior.
"It feels like a punch in the gut," parent Jessica Xu, whose oldest child is in first grade, said in an interview. "I chose the town for the schools. I'm so frustrated the schools don't want me there."
Elementary schools generally set their own rules for parent visits, and policies vary widely. Some allow it on children's birthdays or other special occasions. In some areas districts say it's not an issue because parents do not or cannot visit because of work or other obligations.
In a Darien, a town of Colonial-style homes behind stone fences where the median household income exceeds $200,000, so many parents had begun attending lunch that principals felt they were affecting the day-to-day running of the elementary schools, according to Tara Ochman, chairman of the Darien Board of Education. On a typical day, Xu said, six or seven parents were in the cafeteria of her child's school.
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But others who spoke up at the meeting said the midday visits allowed them to see how their children were faring and to help them resolve friction with other children. For the youngest children, they could offer helping opening milk cartons and finding items in the lunchrooms.
Terry Steadman, a parent, told the board she was shocked and driven to tears by the news.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/connecticut-schools-ban-lunchroom-visits-parents-n941216
Tom Cotton Is Here To Ruin Prison Reform - the one issue that both parties agree on
Tom Cotton Is Here To Ruin Prison Reform
The Arkansas Republican is working hard to blow up a bipartisan deal.
WASHINGTON ― With a blessing from Donald Trump ― a politician so “tough on crime” he still thinks the Central Park Five are guilty ― Congress could pass a bill before the end of the year to make the criminal justice system a little less harsh and a little less racist.
There’s just one problem: Senator Tom Cotton.
“Thousands of people will be released within weeks or months of a bill like this passing,” the Arkansas Republican told HuffPost. “I think it’s a danger to public safety and not sound policy.”
The bill is called The First Step Act. It aims to reduce recidivism and would shorten some prison sentences. Both Republicans and Democrats support the bill. The American Civil Liberties Union likes it, and so does FreedomWorks, the conservative lobbying group associated with the Tea Party movement.
But Cotton is doing everything he can to sour Republicans on the legislation. He railed against the bill during a lively Tuesday lunch meeting with his Republican colleagues, warning them they would be blamed if any recently released prisoner commits a new crime.
“He was the guy who was most sharply against the bill,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told HuffPost. “He’s saying, ‘Someone’s going to get out; we’re all going to lose our seats’.”
And since Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said he doesn’t want to put the bill up for a vote if it divides his party, Cotton could get his way.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tom-cotton-prison-reform_us_5bfeda54e4b0388c1770b520
sad news. the13 year girl that was abducted when the family's SUV was idling found dead
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/27/us/north-carolina-missing-teen-search-body-found/index.htmlA body found during a water search in North Carolina has been preliminarily identified as 13-year-old Hania Aguilar, Lumberton Police Chief Michael McNeill said.
The final confirmation will be made using dental records, McNeill said.
The FBI announced on Tuesday that they had discovered a body following leads in Hania's disappearance.
The body was found off Wire Grass Road in Robeson County, McNeill said
Police say someone drove away with Hania in a relative's SUV that was parked in the driveway Monday morning before school, prompting authorities to issue an Amber Alert for her.
A witness saw a man dressed in black and wearing a yellow bandana force Hania into the vehicle. Authorities said they have no reason to think Hania knew her abductor and her family is cooperating with the investigation.
The stolen SUV was found abandoned less than 10 miles from Hania's home at the Rosewood Mobile Home Park, authorities said.
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Police say someone drove away with Hania in a relative's SUV that was parked in the driveway Monday morning before school, prompting authorities to issue an Amber Alert for her.
A witness saw a man dressed in black and wearing a yellow bandana force Hania into the vehicle. Authorities said they have no reason to think Hania knew her abductor and her family is cooperating with the investigation.
The stolen SUV was found abandoned less than 10 miles from Hania's home at the Rosewood Mobile Home Park, authorities said.
Mexicans are STUNNED that Jared Kushner is receiving Mexico's highest honors as final act by Prez
life is easy and good for the princeMexicans 'Stunned' Over Decision to Honor Kushner
He'll receive the Order of the Aztec Eagle on Thursday
Enrique Peña Nieto's final "major" act as president will apparently involve Jared Kushner, and it's one the Guardian describes as having "stunned the country": The Hill reports that before handing over power to incoming president Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Saturday, Peña Nieto will bestow Mexico's highest honor for foreigners on Kushner for his work on renegotiating NAFTA. The ceremony in which Kushner will receive the Order of the Aztec Eagle will take place Thursday during the G20 summit, putting him in a club that includes Walt Disney, Queen Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Bill and Melinda Gates.
Per a government statement, "Kushner's participation was a determinant factor ... and his constant and effective involvement was key in achieving a successful close of negotiations." Other Mexicans were far less effusive about Kushner and the Trump administration. Reuters quotes Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal as calling the move "tremendously shameful," while Mexican historian Enrique Krauze wrote that "giving him the Aztec Eagle reflects a supreme attitude of humiliation and cowardice." The Guardian has this from a Mexican professor: "It's the final kick in the crotch for Mexicans." (Trump mentioned the G20 in a wide-ranging interview with the Washington Post.)
http://www.newser.com/story/267858/mexico-bestowing-its-highest-honor-on-kushner.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top
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