TUESDAY APRIL 4, 2017 VOLUME 106 ISSUE 29
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DR. ANGELA DAVIS MAKES APPEARANCE Speaks to students on campus about controversial issues
By Shayan Faradineh News Reporter @shayanfaradineh The Texas State community filled Evans Auditorium March 31 to hear political activist Dr. Angela Davis lecture on critical issues. Davis discussed topics surrounding gender and race rights, effects of capitalism, immigration, planet preservation, marriage equality, efforts by Black Lives Matter, terrorism and incarceration. She criticized the role President
“Our struggles are all interrelated.”
-Angela Davis
Donald Trump’s administration and policy plays in each of these subjects. “People should really care when families are destroyed by the Trump administration’s immigration policy,” Davis said. “Our struggles are all interrelated.” Davis grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and moved to New York during high school. In 1969, she was removed from her teaching position due to her involvement in the Communist Party, USA. That following year, Davis was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List “on
false charges, and was the subject of an intense police search that drove her underground and culminated in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. history. During her s16-month incarceration, a massive international “Free Angela Davis” campaign was organized, leading to her acquittal in 1972,” according to the Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz.
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Vice president-elect Students represent at Undergraduate Research Day expresses disdain for guest By Shayan Faradineh News Reporter @ShayanFaradineh Erica Osta, microbiology senior, and Mykle Ayala, criminal justice senior, attended March 28 an undergraduate research presentation at the Texas Capitol. Through the research opportunities within the Honors College, they presented their findings to the public and Texas legislators. “My research is focused on explaining bullying behavior through general strain theory,” Ayala said. “I’m studying to see if a bully’s behavior is influenced by the negative strains and absence of positive stimuli in their lives. It was an easy choice considering I’m a criminal justice major.” While Ayala’s research pertains to the behavior of bullies, Osta took a different approach with her research. Osta’s study deals with the use of new techniques and technology to identify diseases so proper steps can be taken to cure patients, earlier than before. The research focuses on the “creation of an inexpensive technique for innovating and simplifying a rapid sample preparation step in the diagnostic workflow, which is necessary to detect and treat disease in a timely manner at the patient’s bedside,” Osta said.
The purpose of the annual event is to bring awareness to how research done by undergraduate students can positively impact communities in Texas. Every year consists of different themes. This year’s theme is “Transforming Texas Through Undergraduate Research.” Every public and private university and colleges can display up to two students’ research that represent their institution. Over 75 posters were displayed from around the state. Each university president in Texas has been invited to identify a faculty liaison to determine the process for selecting the student researchers who will represent their institution at the Capitol. The two students from Texas State were selected based on their research through the Honors College. According to the Office of Distance and Extended Learning’s website, “The goal of this event is to promote Texas undergraduate research projects.” In addition, Osta said the purpose is “to summarize our research and findings to others; we will have the opportunity to network with accomplished researchers in the state, as well as learn about the significant research work from all of the other universities in Texas.”
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speaker Angela Davis By Katie Burrell News Reporter @KatieNicole96 Student Government vice presidentelect Colton Duncan published a post on Facebook calling guest speaker Angela Davis an “American terrorist.” The post was removed from his page by Facebook for not following “the Facebook Community Standards.” Duncan’s post was a response to an email sent to students, faculty and staff at Texas State announcing an event March 31 in which Davis was set to speak. The email detailed Davis’ work as an activist and referred her as “a living witness to the historical struggles of the contemporary era.” “For anyone that is interested, Texas State University (with our tuition dollars) is sponsoring communist Angela Davis, ’70s American terrorist and the third woman to be placed on the FBI’s ten most wanted list,” Duncan posted on Facebook. The post claimed Davis’ visit was funded by students “tuition dollars.” The Dean of Student’s twitter page tweeted that her visit is being paid by privately donated funds, and “no tuition is being used.” This fact was confirmed by members of the Texas State faculty senate
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during its March 29 meeting. Due to the amount of attention Duncan’s post received, he was approached by members of the press within the San Marcos and Texas State community via
“I’m not speaking in my capacity as student vice president.” -Colton Duncan email and phone. In response, Duncan decided to hold what he called an “UnOfficial Press Conference” March 3 on the patio of Bobcat Nation Bar and Grill. The meeting between the press and Duncan was planned without the knowledge of Connor Clegg president-elect, and administration partner. “Recently something’s come up with Dr. Angela Davis coming to our campus, and my vice president has said something,” Clegg said. “Now, he doesn’t speak for me, and at this point, doesn’t speak for our administration.”
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