Week-long events to promote importance of ethnic studies
October marks the third annual Ethnic Studies Week, which started in 2010 as a reaction to Arizona’s controversial immigration law that was put in place with the passage of Senate Bill 1070.
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October marks the third annual Ethnic Studies Week, which started in 2010 as a reaction to Arizona’s controversial immigration law that was put in place with the passage of Senate Bill 1070.
The University Senate, a group of faculty members who influence and shape University policy, voted Monday to approve Motion 2012-58, banning tobacco on campus next fall.
Sustainability graduate student Arijit Guha, a colon cancer patient whose Poop Strong campaign convinced ASU’s insurance carrier to continue covering him, is claiming he was racially profiled when he was not allowed on a Delta Airlines Inc. flight last month.
Business sophomore Drew Curry was so inspired by his trip to Calcutta, India, when he was 15 years old that he’s donating a percentage of profits from his online T-shirt store to Calcutta schools.
Sustainability graduate student Arijit Guha thought he had caught a stomach bug when he returned from a brief trip to India in January 2011. Two weeks later, he was diagnosed with colon cancer.
The Syrian-American Council organized a national “Walk for the Children of Syria” Saturday to raise awareness of the political struggle in the Western Asian country Syria.
Officers also found an Oxymorphone pill in her right front shorts pocket as well as a bag of cocaine, a box containing marijuana, two packages of Suboxone, a box containing 10 Clonazepam pills and an Adderall pill in her purse, according to the report.
The men’s speech was slurred, their eyes were bloodshot and they smelled like alcohol, police reported.
Javier Urcuyo walks to his first college class four days a week with an escort in tow to tackle calculus before he has reached his teens.
While many students spend their summer lying on the beach, global studies sophomore Kamra Hakim spent July touring HIV clinics and orphanages in South Africa and Zambia.
With Thursday’s kickoff fast approaching, thousands of ASU students are gearing up for the first football game; the first chance to raise their hands in pitchforks and scream with the rest of the rambunctious student section.
Drag queens will take the stage Friday to share their stories and raise money for the undocumented and LGBTQ communities at Club Zarape in Phoenix.
Every color of the rainbow was visible in the outfits of the thousands who cheered, danced and celebrated their pride in 100-degree weather this weekend.
A world without extreme poverty can exist, said Meg Watkins, the speaker at a Tempe campus event Tuesday called "1.4 Billion Reasons."
ASU alumna Mimi Refuerzo moved to Arizona in 2009 to work with the nonprofit organization Teach for America, but will be leaving for Honduras in May to give shoes to underprivileged children.
The inaugural Pitchfork Awards recognized achievements of ASU students, clubs and organizations Tuesday at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Phoenix.
Xenophobia, the intense or irrational fear of people from other countries, is both innate and misguided, panelists agreed at Saturday’s The Great Debate: Xenophobia at ASU Gammage.
Daniel Rodriguez earned several scholarships to study political science and English literature after he was accepted into ASU in 2004.
Hayden Lawn became a temporary site for a multitude of cultures as students showcased their home countries at World Fest Tuesday afternoon.
A group of engineering students is working to create an electricity-free water filtration system for a girls’ school in rural Bangladesh.
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