THE HOFSTRA
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HEMPSTEAD, NY VOLUME 87 ISSUE 5
TUESDAY November 2, 2021
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Deplatforming TERFs cannot Students call out Dean of Students for end with performative activism victim shaming By Dickinson-Frevola
By Madeline Armstrong
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for voicing anti-transgender remarks in his new Netflix special “The Closer.” In a slew of transphobic rhetoric targeting trans women and a handful of comments defending the homophobic comments of rapper DaBaby, Chappelle doubled down on past instances of transphobia, going so far as to pit the experiences of Black people Photo courtesy of John Bauld / Flickr and the LGBTQ+ community against each other in Dave Chappelle is under scrutiny after voicing anti-transgender remarks. an attempt to undermine the struggle faced by queer people in the 21st century. Recently, comedian Dave Chappelle has come under fire
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The newspaper world gets the Wes Anderson treatment in “The French Dispatch” McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Timothée Chalamet. The British Film Institute described Anderson’s latest work Photo courtesy of YouTube as a “love letter to Wes Anderson’s new film, “The French Dispatch,” was released in theaters on Friday, Oct. 22. journalism,” By Tori Licata with it being heavily influenced SOC IAL M E D I A E D I TO R by the director’s love for the “The French Dispatch,” the magazine The New Yorker. latest film from critically acclaimed director Wes Anderson, was released in theaters on Friday, Oct. 22, and has been a box office hit in the arthouse world. The film, which has been in the works since 2018, features a star-studded cast, including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Frances
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CW: Sexual assault “I just could not believe that they would say something like that,” said a senior criminology and linguistics major. On Thursday, Oct. 28, the Dean of Students released an email to the Hofstra student body reminding students to stay safe during Halloween weekend. The email mentioned the possible consequences of alcohol consumption in a way that upset a number of students. “Overconsumption can result in various consequences, including lowered academic achievement, injury, trauma and sexual violence,” read the email. Kadaline Jackel, a senior psy-
chology major and survivor of sexual assault, found that particular sentence to be victim shaming and was “shocked and upset” after reading it. “If they were going to include anything about trauma and sexual violence, I think they should have aimed Photo courtesy of Unsplash the warning The Dean of Students sent an email detailing the more toward potential consequences of overconsumption of people that are alcohol. sexually violent towards others,” Jackel said. CONTINUED ON A5
Features
This Hofstra Life: Nur Tasdemir Kalayci By Anna DeGoede
For the average college student, the bus ride to elementary school was anything but memorable. For Nur Tasdemir Kalayci, a junior health sciences major from Istanbul, Turkey, a stand-out experience in her college career was riding a yellow school bus to the Long Island Zoo. “I was excited to go on the yellow school bus because I feel like those are such classics,” Kalayci said. “We see them in movies all the time and our school bus, it doesn’t look like that.” Photo courtesy of Nur Tasdemir Kalayci The bus ride is one Nur Tasdemir Kalayci is a junior health of many differences sciences major at Hofstra University.
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that the United States and Turkey have in their cultural and educational systems – a fact that Kalayci discovered during her time at Hofstra. Even before coming onto campus, Kalayci found selecting a major difficult, largely because Turkey approaches premed differently from American schools. “We just apply to med school right after high school,” Kalayci said. “When I first applied [to college], I thought my major was going to be pre-med. When they were asking me to choose a major, I was really confused. I was like, isn’t pre-med my major?”
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