When Brian Patterson heard the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) was being delayed and possibly rerouted, he let out a whoop of joy. For him and thousands of others, particularly those at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the snow-covered Dakotas, it was a victory more than two years in the making. “There’s a sense of relief I cannot fully express,” says Patterson, a Bear Clan representative to the Oneida Indian Nation’s governing body. “I believe it’s linked to generational, historical trauma.” Read more at SU News.
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Syracuse Professor, Alumnus Co-Found Group to Address Rights of People with Disabilities Worldwide
The Tangata Group, a nonprofit, non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to the proposition that disability rights are human rights, has been created to assist nations in successfully adhering to international disability law and policy, disability inclusive development and participatory human rights education. Read the full article at SU News.
CCJI Lauds Passage of Emmett Till Act in House
The House of Representatives passed S. 2854, the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016, by voice vote during its evening session on Wednesday, Dec. 7. But unless further action is taken this week by the U.S. Senate, the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2008 will expire in 2017. The act recognized the need for an “urgent” and “thorough” federal investigation and possible prosecution of living suspects involved in the Civil Rights Era racially motivated killings. Read more at SU News.
Newhouse Student Shares Theme of Living Loud, Being Proud of Differences
Justin Bachman ’19 has never forgotten the day that changed his life and started him on his mission.
Bachman, who has Tourette Syndrome, was disqualified from an eighth-grade cross country meet because of the involuntary noises he makes due to the neurological condition.
“The officials had no idea what Tourette Syndrome was, even though I was trying to explain it and trying to handle the situation as best as I could,” says Bachman, whose teammates also tried to intervene. “The referees refused to understand my differences. It was a situation that I knew I couldn’t win, and it was a situation that I never wanted to feel myself in again.” Read the full article at SU News.
University Selected to Become Pat Tillman Foundation University Partner
The Pat Tillman Foundation has selected Syracuse University as its 15th Pat Tillman Foundation University Partner. Syracuse joins 14 other University Partners, including Columbia University, George Washington University and Georgetown University. The selection process is by invitation only from the Pat Tillman Foundation. Read more at SU News.
Diane R. Wiener, Barry L. Wells Appointed Co-Chairs of Council on Diversity and Inclusion
Diane R. Wiener, director of the Disability Cultural Center, and Barry L. Wells, special assistant to the Chancellor, have been appointed co-chairs of the new Council on Diversity and Inclusion by Chancellor Kent Syverud. For more information, read the SU News article.
University Lectures Hosts Humans of New York Founder, Pulitzer-Winning Authors
The 16th season of the University Lectures will continue in the spring semester with two Pulitzer Prize-winning writers—Jhumpa Lahiri (“Interpreter of Maladies”) and Sonia Nazario (“Enrique’s Journey”)—and the creator of the immensely popular Facebook/Instagram sensation Humans of New York, Brandon Stanton. Read more at SU News.
Visualizing Mexican Migration
Gilberto Cárdenas is the Executive Director of the
Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture. An internationally recognized scholar who has worked in the area of immigration for over 44 years, Cárdenas has been three times listed by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Latinos in the United States.
Cárdenas was the founding Director of the Institute for Latino Studies and Assistant Provost at the University of Notre Dame (1999-2002). During this time he also held the Julian Samora Chair in Latino Studies. He is a full professor in the Department of Sociology with research interests in the fields of immigration, race and ethnic relations, Latino art and culture, and visual sociology.
His passion for the arts led him to create Galería sin Fronteras, a commercial art gallery in Austin, TX, which features the works of Chicano/Latino artists. He is an avid collector of Latino art and has established the largest private collection of Latino art in the world.
Published work includes co-authorship of Los Mojados: The Wetback Story 1971 (Julian Samora, with Jorge Bustamante & Gilbert Cardenas); co-editorship of Health and Social Services among International Labor Migrants: A Comparative Perspective (1998, University of Texas Press, Center for Mexican American Studies CMAS as part of their Border Series) and editorship of La Causa: Civil Rights, Social Justice, and the Struggle for Equality in the Midwest (2004, Arte Público Press, Hispanic Civil Rights Series). Cárdenas was the Latino Series Editor for Notre Dame Press and previously served as the Mexican American Series Editor for the University of Texas Press. He serves on several editorial committees for book series, including the Critical Documents of Latin American and Latino Art, (Houston), the A Ver Series on Latino Artists (UCLA), and Ventana Abrieta (Spain).
In 1994 he founded and served as Executive Producer of Latino USA, a half-hour weekly radio program produced at the University of Texas at Austin, and distributed nationally by National Public Radio. Cárdenas also served on the Smithsonian Institution’s Oversight Committee for Latino Issues that lead to the report Toward a Shared Vision (1997) and is chairperson of the Latino Center Board, one of three national boards of the Smithsonian Institution.
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