Arum Park

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Korean American; she/her; Classicist at University of Arizona. Opinions are my own. http://press.umich.edu/11853864 https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/q524jr02p

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Meet the North Koreans who haven't been able to return home in over 70 yearswww.npr.org On the 74th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, the residents of Abai Village, in the coastal South Korean city of Sokcho, reflect on what their community still means to them.

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Blend of machine learning, botany unlocks secrets of ancient Greecenews.yale.edu This summer in Greece, the Yale Ancient Pharmacology Program will employ its unique interdisciplinary approach to uncover ancient secrets.

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"Many traveling patients faced multiday trips, lost income and child care costs. Some patients were unable to travel...'We’re having people travel hundreds or thousands of miles for a procedure that typically takes less than 10 minutes and can be done in a doctor’s office setting'”

“171,000 Traveled for Abortions Last Year: 14,000 Texas patients crossed into New Mexico for an abortion last year. 16,000 left Southern states bound for Illinois. 12,000 traveled north from South Carolina and Georgia to North Carolina.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The real conspiracy

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Meanwhile, the _contingent faculty_ of Columbia and Barnard have now set up a soup kitchen to feed the 100s of Columbia students, most not involved in the protests at all, who can't access their own dining halls because Columbia closed down the campus to people who don't live full-time on campus.

Leadership matters. This is Yale in 1970 during the Black Panther trials when thousands of demonstrators were in town. Yale President Kingman Brewster opened up the university to feed and care for the protesters and their families. It can be different.

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I stopped and chatted with the students at the University of Iowa peace encampment outside my office. Lots of kindness, learning, dialogue, and discussion. Lots of my ancient & medieval Middle East students I wanted to check in on. They said all had been peaceful all day.

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Someone said to me this week that all the social media about Emory was making us look bad so parents won’t send their kids here and I laughed and said “pretty sure calling the riot squad and arresting its own students and faculty is what made Emory look bad” 🙄

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As someone who will be sending her kid to college in two years, I absolutely have been paying attention to which universities call the cops on their students and which ones don't.

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A great way for abusive spouses to easily trap their wife forever. And forcing pregnancy was already a great way for abusers to make their partners think they have to stay but this law makes it actually binding. Great job everyone

Missouri law requires women seeking divorce to disclose whether they're pregnant — and state judges won't finalize divorces during a pregnancy

Pregnant women in Missouri can't get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violencewww.npr.org The state's law requires women seeking divorce to disclose whether they're pregnant — and state judges won't finalize divorces during a pregnancy. Texas and Arkansas have similar laws on the books.

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Statement from staff and faculty of Classics at UCLA on this week's protests classics.ucla.edu/news/stateme...

Statement of Members of the Department of Classics on the University's Failure to Protect Student Protestors - Department of Classics - UCLAclassics.ucla.edu 2 May 2024 We, members of the Classics Department, some of whom have been present at the events of April 30 and May 1, strongly condemn the attack by agitators...

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Just learned of the death of David Konstan. A major loss. He was both a towering figure in the field and a very warm and generous person. He showed me a signal kindness at a moment of high vulnerability, which I will never forget.

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The students at my school did this. They negotiated for it, they got it, and they're disbanding their encampment now that they're done. Not one arrest. No police. The first campus in the UC system to do it.

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as the mom of a high school junior I would quite frankly like to have the list of colleges that are being chill and not brutalizing their students

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Dartmouth met our new Gaza solidarity encampment last night with riot police, drones, an armored vehicle, Dartmouth Outing Club vans commandeered to remove protesters. Professor Orleck here was among those arrested violently and had to submit to a ban from campus as a condition of her release.

the professor they threw on the ground is a former chair of Jewish studies

It is complete coincidence for an article of mine to be mentioned in the same publication featuring the student protest movements sweeping America, but it's a serendipitous one. I'm inspired by these students and the faculty advocating for them, and I will always stand for the right to protest.

The special issue of #PastsImperfect on student protests is out. In it, profs Elizabeth Castelli, @illdottore.bsky.social , and @isisnaucratis.bsky.social comment. Then, UM grad student Kaitlin Karmen & Palestinian American student Jordyn Imhoff weigh in. pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-impe...

Pasts Imperfect (5.2.24)pastsimperfect.substack.com Campus Protests, Freedom of Speech, and Protecting Students

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U of A president orders arrests, police and protesters clash, protesters retreat, camp broken uptucson.com "University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins has directed University officials and the University of Arizona Police Department, to immediately enforce campus use policies and all corresponding l...

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One of the lessons I thought we'd all learned — viscerally, on camera, again and again over these past ~10 years — is not to call the cops unless you're 100% ok with the person you're calling about being killed. I think about that each time I see a university call the police on students and faculty.

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The Spring 2024 issue of TAPA, Race and Racism: Beyond the Spectacular co-edited by Sasha-Mae Eccleston and Patrice Rankine, is now available online through Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52400

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Next week, #PastsImperfect will be running a special issue on freedom of assembly on college campus and current student protests. If you have photos to submit or a comment, you can anonymously submit them here or let us know you wish to be credited. Thanks ahead of time: forms.gle/2LZjD6F5FrBY...

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#AcademicSky #MedievalSky Please pass the word. #PastsImperfect is a weekly newsletter gathering perspectives and news on the premodern world w/ a global perspective.

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Posted on The Guardian just after midnight, 27 April: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...

Columbia University calls for inquiry into leadership as student protests sweep 40 campuseswww.theguardian.com Professors at Emory University arrested as 40 campuses follow Columbia’s lead in demanding ceasefire and divestment

I am proud to have contributed to this special issue of TAPA: Race and Racism: Beyond the Spectacular. By far the hardest article/project I have ever done. muse.jhu.edu/issue/52400

Project MUSE - TAPA-Volume 154, Number 1, Spring 2024muse.jhu.edu

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Everyone stop what you're doing and go see if you are eligible for public service loan forgiveness. Studentaid.gov. Getting this program to work is one of the best things the Biden administration has done. Take advantage.

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Today's #PeoplingBlog is another “new works” feature! Read on as we interview Dr. Kevin Fisher of UBC on his recently published monograph, “Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus”: peoplingthepast.com/2024/02/23/b... /1

Blog #94: Reconstructing Space, Place, and Power in Late Bronze Age Cyprus with Kevin Fisherpeoplingthepast.com In this week's blog we interview Dr. Kevin Fisher of UBC on his recently published monograph, "Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus", exploring the complex ways...

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Revisiting the Claudine Gay plagiarism accusations for a bonus episode and I cannot express how many of these are just totally normal paraphrases of basic facts.

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Prof. Houston was unfailingly kind to me, and I think this obituary captures his personality well. classics.unc.edu/2024/01/30/i...

In Memoriam — George Woodard Houston | Department of Classicsclassics.unc.edu

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UCONN is the next public flagship university to face gruesome cuts--15% across *all* units to account for a $70M deficit. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...