September 29, 2017

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Fallon donated $20k to hurricane disaster relief efforts in Puerto Rico RELIEF

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has continued to raise its fundraising goal in the hopes of providing further aid. Contributions can be made through the following link: gofundme.com/ studentswithpr. Campus representatives are listed on the GoFundMe page.

Another recent guest column by Markus Norkaitis ’20 explained the devastation on his home island of St. Thomas, one of the U.S.

Virgin Islands. This area was severely damaged by both Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria, and now faces challenges similar to Puerto Rico’s in the coming months.

Other campus groups have also started to get involved in relief efforts. The Community Service Interclub Council had originally intended to start a Hurricane Harvey fundraiser for victims of recent f looding in Texas. However, faced with a growing number of disasters, the Council re-

purposed this initiative to cover other relief efforts as well.

The group will be setting up tables at each of the eating clubs to discuss its endeavor, which consists mainly of selling “Tigers for Texas” stickers for a donation of $2 or more. The group emphasizes that the funds raised are not only for Texas, but will be distributed to various causes as the group sees fit. Donations can be made to TIGERSFORTEXAS on Venmo.

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Behrakis: Humanity thrives through crisis PANEL

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Joe Stephens, who has taken his journalism students to Greece to report on the refugee crisis multiple times, also spoke on the changes he saw in Greece.

The first time his class arrived in Greece during the spring of 2016, he noticed tens of thousands of refugees, particularly on the island of Lesbos. People squatted in buildings and slept on the street.

Stephens praised the Greek community for coming together in the face of this crisis. “Many of the big NGOs were coming, but you also had wonderful tradition in Greece of solidarity groups where community just filled the void,” noted Stephens.

He recounted trucks coming to the streets and hanging out food, sanitary pads, and toys.

“This shouldn’t have worked at all. Imagine tens of thousands of migrants just started living in Penn station. It was kind of magical to see,” he said.

During later trips, however, Stephens noticed a sizable decrease in the number of refugees in Greece, due to the deal that had taken place between Turkey and the European Union.

When he returned to Greece this past summer, he observed that everything felt much “sadder.” There were fewer refugees in public spaces, and people seemed less hopeful. “They want to work, they want to start rebuilding their lives,” he said.

The majority of refugees wanted to leave Greece and elsewhere in Europe, according to Stephens, but the shut-down borders have barred them from doing so. “If you’re living in a camp for over a year,” he said, “that’s going to wear on you.”

The international reception to refugees was a main focus of yesterday’s panel. Amos spoke on Trump’s anti-refugee actions as an attempt to “gut” the nation’s resettlement infrastructure. “It struck me this week that refugees have no lobby,” she said. She compared the difference between the media nar-

rative of DACA recipients and that of refugees. She opined that DREAMers may be relatively easy to sympathize with given that they are portrayed as “practically American citizens”: English-speaking, educated, and often holding professional jobs. “They do have a lobby, and there’s sympathy for them,”she said. “They have a narrative. We know their names and we know their stories.

In contrast, however, Amos noted that “refugees are a statistic. One refugee is a tragedy; two is a statistic,” she said. “Many of [the refugees in Europe] are middle class. They would be your friends in another context.

They’re professionals. They were forced from their homes, but they’re faceless. In some ways, Donald Trump was right when he said on the campaign trail, ‘We don’t know who these people are.’”

“Sometimes seismic events are hard to see,” Amos said. “You need the personal; you need the narrative. And that is what is missing from the refugee story.”

Amos is taking her journalism class to Canada so that her students can witness private resettlement programs, in part to help humanize refugees for them.

Despite the limits of the profession, Behrakis professed his continued belief in journalism’s ability to influence the public conscience and public policy.

He recounted an episode he experienced while taking photos in Lesbos. A Norwegian volunteer shouted at him for taking pictures instead of helping the refugees. He replied, “Well, this is the way I help.” She was furious and left. The next day, she returned in tears. “She said, ‘I want to apologize because apparently one of your pictures brought me here.’” The whole audience at the panel discussion laughed.

“People ask me why I’m so devoted. I feel like my mission is to make sure that nobody in the world can say that ‘I didn’t know,’” Behrakis said. “You have no excuse. You cannot say that you didn’t know.”

Travel ban to affect Chad, North Korea, Venezuela BAN

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voiced serious concerns about the ban’s threat to higher education.

In March, in the wake of the issuing of the administration’s first travel ban, the University also announced the provision of additional resources for students with respect to immigration-related information and advocacy.

The new travel ban also provides more specific details about the sanctions that will be leveled against the respective countries.

Notably, it also includes North Korea and Venezuela on its list of targeted countries.

Pundits have remarked that the inclusion of these two new countries is an attempt to make the travel ban seem less like a “Muslim ban.” Critics, however, are quick to point out that the addition of North Korea and Venezuela to the ban will minimally impact the total number of individuals affected.

“President Trump’s original sin of targeting Muslims cannot be cured by throwing other countries onto his enemies list,” said Anthony Romero ’87, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

“The fact that Trump has added North Korea — with few visitors to the U.S. — and a few government officials from Venezuela doesn’t obfuscate the real fact that the administration’s order is still a Muslim ban,” he further explained.

As rationale for adding North Korea to the ban, the executive order mentioned that “North Korea does not cooperate with the United States Government in any respect and fails to satisfy

all information-sharing requirements,” while the Venezuelan government is “uncooperative in verifying whether its citizens pose national security or publicsafety threats.”

The order’s mention of Venezuela and North Korea directly reflects heightened tensions in foreign relations between Washington and the two countries. In his recent speech at the United Nations, Trump strongly condemned continued nuclear activity in North Korea, and he also expressed critical comments on Nicolás Maduro’s autocratic administration in Venezuela.

Disapprovers argue that unconstitutional values still remain in the revised version of the travel ban.

“The revised travel ban shows a xenophobic policy towards Muslims which is mutating, viruslike, into an ever more resilient strain,” said Salil Shetty, the Secretary General of Amnesty International.

Shetty also noted that “thinly disguised as a national security measured, the ban reinstates many of the most repellent elements of the original.”

The Supreme Court was scheduled to hear whether the executive order was an unconstitutional ban on Muslims on Oct. 10. However, after the Trump administration’s Sunday announcement, justices removed the case and requested files on the new papers from lawyers of both sides.

The new travel ban will be effective starting on Oct. 18, when the temporary travel ban, issued in an effort to avoid legal problems pertaining to the original ban, expires.