MIT ‘Bans’ Student Over Essay - Sampan
2024年11月22日 · The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has banned a doctoral grad student from campus and is threatening to boot him from the university for an article he published related to pro-Palestinian protesting, according to the student and his lawyer, who calls the punishment a threat to free speech and academic thought.MIT banned Prahlad Iyengar, a second-year electrical engineering doctoral ...
‘Palestine Is the New Vietnam,’ Says MIT Linguistics Professor …
2024年12月20日 · MIT professor Michel Anne-Frederic DeGraff has a long history as an expert in linguistics. His study in the field has propelled his career in academia at one of the world’s most prestigious institutions. His recent political activism, however, has gotten him in trouble with that very university. DeGraff’s supposed crime? Taking the side of solidarity
Jon M. Chu’s ‘Wicked’ Is a Blockbuster Queer Romance Film for …
2024年12月6日 · “Wicked” is a blockbuster-bound love story for the ages in the grand style of Old Hollywood. This queer-coded romance tells the classic story of two enemies to lovers whose chemistry and complicated love for each other is so well known in the intimate world of female friendship. Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) was born with green skin
The Suppressed Speech of Wamsutta (Frank B.) James - sampan.org
2024年11月22日 · Editor’s note: The following is being reprinted with permission for two reasons. One, in honor of Native American Heritage Month, and, two, as a celebration of free speech and the right to freedom of expression and thought. The speech was to have been delivered at Plymouth in 1970. Three hundred fifty years after the Pilgrims
Review: Haruki Murakami’s ‘The City and Its Uncertain Wall’ Lacks …
2024年12月6日 · Sometimes it’s difficult to witness the precipitous quality drop of a great writer. In the case of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, the drop in quality is less disastrous than it is tedious. Murakami’s new novel “The City and its Uncertain Walls” comes six years after “Killing Commendatore,” itself an excessive mixture of perversity and magic
Holistic Approach Needed to Heal: Refugee Trauma Doctor
2024年12月20日 · Dr. Lin Piwowarczyk, co-founder of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, has been working with torture victims and refugees for over 30 years. Specializing in the mental health evaluation and treatment of refugees and survivors of torture, she is currently the principal investigator for an Office of Refugee Resettlement grant addressing the
Opinion/Review: Coates Summons Wisdom of Orwell and …
2024年12月20日 · The epigraph that Ta-Nehishi Coates chose to introduce The Message, his latest collection of linked essays, is a perfectly apt reflection of the writer as provocateur and didactic secular missionary. It’s a passage from George Orwell’s “Why I Write,” a 1948 reflection whose title identifies its contents. Orwell (real name Eric Blair) is best known
Korean Americans Celebrate Nobel Prize to Han Kang in Literature …
2024年10月25日 · Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024—the first writer from South Korea to be awarded this prize. Yet, she has “declined to hold a press conference, citing the global tragedies of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Israel-Palestine conflict,” according to The Korea Times, citing a letter from her father. Korean-American software engineer Todd S.J. Simmer said this move was ...
Asian Community Fund Aims to Bridge Gaps for Region’s AAPI …
2025年1月3日 · When the Asian Community Fund (ACF) launched in 2020, it set out with a clear mission: to unify and empower the Asian American Pacific Islander community across Massachusetts. Founded during a period of heightened anti-Asian racism and in response to research showing less that 1% of philanthropic giving reaches Asian communities, ACF has become a vital resource for increasing visibility and ...
Adoptees Torn Over China’s End to Overseas Adoptions
2024年10月25日 · When Emili Van Volkinburg learned in early September that China is ending international adoptions, she felt conflicted. Van Volkinburg, a 25-year-old Brighton resident, was adopted from southeast China at age two-and-a-half by white parents from Ohio. Growing up, she had open conversations with her mom about being …