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Title A name given to the resource Dear Blueno Posts Description An account of the resource Screenshots of posts from the public Facebook group "Dear Blueno," an anonymous online forum used dominantly by the Brown community to express their opinions, concerns, or other articulations. Item names are either excerpts from posts or the posts in full. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PNG Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document 17502 - topics: corona discourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saw a bunch of people online blaming Jews for starting the coronavirus; please stop with the conspiracy theories - between these and the anti-Chinese ones, it's just causing more pain and chaos. Let's focus on staying safe and supporting each other, not finding random groups of people to blame. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 17502 - ...Saw a bunch of people online blaming Jews for starting the coronavirus; please stop with the conspiracy theories - between these and the anti-Chinese ones, it's just causing more pain and chaos.... Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Dear Blueno Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 13, 2020 racism unverified xenophobia https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/51613/archive/files/56e61abffabece903c09c8a372412683.png?Expires=1779321600&Signature=TfMe-0PlW5d-F8HnSfxGZ0EOyoWcKZxUk1ROk-ZM3OHewrsCLLbb-fytrOyBN%7EjQ6npjObsSsc8y%7E1IrCzJhQSOm9kS751495wP-z6ybZBhMC4mNVU7CPJ5oT4-IQ0sAJBYfqjktsMpvma7O3ewttB2%7EGwvxTG03NODhCtO2HwjSevyq1DeEaUFtyBh5O8uP9U5Ikkuv5Qs3zW82r91Vb4nXYXrT56miGhUOKb9HOQcTgj3A173lcKoGM4C7XwZ%7Epjvj3AR9TeO7SwtSMv4OjeP9zXKvolcj1bqtN989X3r%7Exu5tHJiZfZdDT5J3b%7E7itwqWRw30bGtYD6AE519xnw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 4cad516f3fe3608a9ec89fdaff17c8f8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dear Blueno Posts Description An account of the resource Screenshots of posts from the public Facebook group "Dear Blueno," an anonymous online forum used dominantly by the Brown community to express their opinions, concerns, or other articulations. Item names are either excerpts from posts or the posts in full. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PNG Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document 17423 - topics: corona discourse . . . . . . . . . . . Honestly, if you are dismissing the very real possibility that Coronavirus was started by the Chinese government in an effort to harm the US economy as “racist,” then you, yes you, are the reason that terms like “liberal snowflake” exist Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 17423 - ...Honestly, if you are dismissing the very real possibility that Coronavirus was started by the Chinese government in an effort to harm the US economy as “racist,”... Description An account of the resource Comments are strongly critical of the post. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Dear Blueno Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 12, 2020 China racism unverified xenophobia https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/51613/archive/files/1d00f8023e9f47c5fa7e6280ee628180.png?Expires=1779321600&Signature=ZpIxScytHRGcqhuoBcBZyWK29WGOm6ayt5dH8TZcUOTWSHZUQ8ZZqrB6zefjo13eByFlYIOKTUYG65%7EIvRwc9GLxB-OftcImIYON1jRSgKvB9iwImSszNGrdu5SGCSFAEgOgLja6qJwZv44qThK0td1WmWDWNr6oRpsG-bFIpqcDntRW2lHn4LYJQ%7E8Z-jGRaLek1e8kEM1%7EP7EyBvOlolk5OM4GVotVleS12L8BtHqAdzgz0DbV8jhAXF0m0krvIFycvBFwLZv24wGK4h1yYQrjcvYUl1rtJwWuuuToh1Q4hp8wQkwbcLBqlriQLEpIFMICyNr48CO3QwpHej07Kw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM d05d0e9f2bfcd165708c3cf363de3e5b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource 17076 - topics: coronavirus ... people taking pictures outside Chinatown in masks- that is not okay Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Dear Blueno Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 5, 2020 China racism unverified xenophobia https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/51613/archive/files/020c8a3fcd6a9cbbdf53149e2b3ccc77.png?Expires=1779321600&Signature=oBIsjW45gEnca79F2hv35DNNMqbEu0Z3ujvw6CB6d48X9aoqU7qGT8ug3Os8YXzHLij2vqF8ZwH%7EXCslGypSgK-ttWYx-9siQZ39GJMhfZ5jrAmzguajVL4bbGrNblBETgbtD-9jp1q5CjVNDA0jvMm750-8ryIYnA9f%7E176XgDpqkl8ZpdBQ0wey-lMN5oZ1617pmvGOSnVOURe5TqbeOrOAGAuBFTfU8Vv0e9KEjS41ZuwHKj9eTKOoLZ9lR-RXvpfFoGCXNf8wrRXSXVJLEmNLuW3MeJiMYV-a2qmwDiqAVnCqxmnDuKn3gut91Sge6EuEJ8I2pMV6XFM%7Egf7-A__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 6bb80704e50d69293179447c46409083 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dear Blueno Posts Description An account of the resource Screenshots of posts from the public Facebook group "Dear Blueno," an anonymous online forum used dominantly by the Brown community to express their opinions, concerns, or other articulations. Item names are either excerpts from posts or the posts in full. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PNG Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document 17073 - topics: coronavirus . . . . . . . . . . . why are there people outside Chinatown taking photos of themselves in masks? That is extremely insensitive to people who are dying from the virus and to those who may be financially struggling due to the lagging world economy. In conclusion, we more mindful of how your actions may impact or may be insensitive to individuals and groups of people, especially entire countries and races. Coronavirus doesn’t only affect Asians... Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 17073 - topics: coronavirus ... why are there people outside Chinatown taking photos of themselves in masks? 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Text Any textual data included in the document 16912 - homeless man pushes asian woman into subway tracks for wearing a mask and "having the coronavirus": not covered by the mainstream media https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/woman-hit-pushed-onto-tracks-in-unprovoked-attack-at-brooklyn-subway-station/2266866/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 16912 - homeless man pushes asian woman into subway tracks for wearing a mask and "having the coronavirus" Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Dear Blueno Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 3, 2020 racism virtual events https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/51613/archive/files/116be18a1efd7583c049e91c0a7877a6.png?Expires=1779321600&Signature=ShgQMEwmcxkRdcJE3A1jDAF-YFiAY3y5UNNE31xEl1It0oXyhkr4vU5El8udRTXcrYNzgCHlR1i5zKxcLO0wW72uUJ3kCYo7DUph0a6W0Fnsn2-e-LuVJe6iYTBsiez02DjOKy89TkTodvvbV2IRGoY6crlheVIp7Pkw6ONh55YUpFuiBZfvAynm%7EAqIX%7EvOeyRibUIIeAH8rAjB4PI9sKEH8W-5ZqDXaeP3%7E3dJdNQe4xgcPaHHbNNJJNmFwDA%7EfFcegfroTAYxAWKN5t5HnlSSn3apwYWlVJl0hmC2JFNEZbCG4AYiLeLQANEuhpPI5mecU-rCfSbqQQ4v8fsEOA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM da428aeea420d71f99e111db571d6b92 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dear Blueno Posts Description An account of the resource Screenshots of posts from the public Facebook group "Dear Blueno," an anonymous online forum used dominantly by the Brown community to express their opinions, concerns, or other articulations. Item names are either excerpts from posts or the posts in full. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PNG Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document "16209 - This is about the coronavirus and Sinophobia. I have seen multiple posts on social media about university students' fear of Chinese folks or concerns over getting in touch with them. Even worse, a man showing the mud on his sole, pointing to it and saying 'China' to a Chinese student around Harvard. These trigger counterposts by ethnic Chinese, or more often in my circle, Chinese students feeling defensive and insecure about the racist or quasi-racist surroundings they happened to be in. Two comments I want to make about the phenomenon. First, when people have concerns over specialised health issue such as the coronavirus, the best source of advice to address such apprehension, is a professional medical practitioner rather than a social media tunnel, no matter how easily accessible or emotionally comforting it is. You need to believe in science. You need to jump out of your own box and try to overcome your own sentiment and think, what that matter really is. Second, I strongly doubt the role elite universities play in the whole affair. At this moment of disease crisis, public apprehension and xenophobia, the university health service system should intervene more strongly and more professionally in providing reliable information about the virus and proper sanitary measures (such as careful washing of one's own hands or more frequent use of 75% alcohol on door knobs, etc.), in sootheing the apprehension of its students, and in executing proper quarantine. Some prestigious universities or colleges in the New York state, according to some grumpy posts of quarantined Chinese students, are executing the quarantine measure in a more or less careless and performative way. Their staff would call to a student's room in the dormitory and reprimand the person not to leave when the phone was not picked up last time. But - people need to go to the restroom, they need to shower, and they need to get themselves necessary supplies that have not been sent directly to their rooms. Thus precautionary quarantine and observation need to be executed professionally and of course, as you mentioned in our interview, mental health service would do good. Thus, the university authority, I have to say, has not acted as professionally as one might have desired. Ethnic identity is a divisive issue in the US, just as the Cultural Revolution and 1989 are in China. But I am not presenting the solution from an ethnic perspective, which is quite popular among liberals nowadays. Surely I know some will dismiss those ideas as postmodern rubbish, though I do find them meaningful and useful. However, as a student of European history, I believe there are wiser ways, more universal ways than playing the ethnic card to address this xenophobia/(quasi-)racism problem. That's the moral lesson of Enlightenment philosphers: be alert at one's own sentiment, esp. pride and prejudice; always have curiosity about and awe towards science; as for institutions - handle social issues and policy making on campus in a professional way rather than fumbling like the French court on the eve of the revolution. This is why I really want to recommend Peter Gay's magnus opus to readers of this post: Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, 2 vols. (pbk., New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1977). Every sociey has its modern witch craze, so does the Chinese one. But here for the American society, looking at the intersection of coronavirus and race, if I am allowed to say a word than being censored, it goes as follows: if one gives way to fear rather than using such an occasion to learn a bit more about health and medicine, and worse, if one simply lets fear marry his or her own sense of ethnic superiority, this is even less so about 'orientalism'; this is really about forgetting the wisdom of his or her great great great grandfathers who opened a new page in European history and gave birth to this country." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 16209 - This is about the coronavirus and Sinophobia. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Dear Blueno Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 10, 2020 China racism unverified xenophobia https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/51613/archive/files/7275305f072ef3c8680aee8146fdf2f1.png?Expires=1779321600&Signature=WlIyq9kF4oT6mYwETtcj9J61NKEZLEn-AiKUOHBlW6s7NCsab%7ETNzsRCN6dVEBWwB37CHPrWgOTncS07HlidfyzDFYcE8vhzNLhEhTvHkn9wErYEtKeMH5KrQTgMJlr4%7EauhfSsyg5LekoLrQ8F0FNKkPlCiBVHaq6z9V20OtZwq4NzY1JfXNH9eqeb5XUoTac276nOqlm-uXP80Q3TnednT5ACRbTT8YvkESmrkNIn4bkQvt7TM7Zke%7Ew4CkxtFwE-BVgwnQ0sqbU1bRwKNmoq-H5eC61MzapD%7ECPkhkxbbUc0Mhatn1nXYanSuC4JmOH78jkRpdke0%7ERrgGtUyQw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 23d25cd0809aa432a170f69cc3932aa3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dear Blueno Posts Description An account of the resource Screenshots of posts from the public Facebook group "Dear Blueno," an anonymous online forum used dominantly by the Brown community to express their opinions, concerns, or other articulations. Item names are either excerpts from posts or the posts in full. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PNG Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document 16043 - I just want to say that if you have made a Chinese-American, Chinese international, or any Asian student in general feel bad about being Asian/even remotely uncomfortable because you made a joke or a racist remark about the coronavirus, you are a despicable human being. It's not being "cautious" or "careful" if you continuously spread lies about all Chinese people eating bats/rats/snakes/exotic birds or if you think all Chinese people "deserve" to get the coronavirus because of some reason you made up. It's racism. The vast majority of Chinese people are just trying to live a normal, happy, long life--just like you. Please have a little compassion for the people who are currently suffering at the epicenter of the coronavirus in China, the medical personnel who are sacrificing their time and possibly their lives to help, and your fellow students, many of whom have family in China and spend every day worrying about them. None of these people need your bullshit right now. Please think about what you say before you say it. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 16043 - I just want to say that if you have made...any Asian student in general feel bad about being Asian... Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Dear Blueno Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 5, 2020 China racism unverified xenophobia https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/51613/archive/files/de892104898b788b9506a2d67cf0c7d5.png?Expires=1779321600&Signature=o--beymECq0GSR4wKWAqDmgVRa6afxczlch-Mk55HtyIOFS7Ar4e6mjEXEPr4BaRBdMY1f-nZ9%7ENTADSLcnY-yoG4dFdeTRPN8pXg9Ys3Js7rnLFDwvFWiCTkSTStZekfQWXSY69MYQADsBsdyn5ASbQvsMPWLokUQXY1l1N78cpEC8Hu5d1W-m3x8rZoFNNgwVUuxAGl5OV5aWiFLu5TZzwx-1STIFvAGPVi6ORsatTImTb6N9L%7EquB2TeydcQUY3Ueivtdh-dVp-%7EVNuaoJFTPKi18PUSTiXFwd-aRslDhQH7OTzdFO9zXwOiR5VHk3h6fxgisfTNnk14Nq6rYPw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM b908fb96dcc858d588f76ccd6121b520 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Today@Brown Description An account of the resource This collection captures the different events announced on Today@Brown, a daily email received by all members of Brown, as screenshots. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document The experience of COVID-19 in many Native American communities has been especially devastating. The pandemic underscores longstanding systemic inequities, including socio-economic marginalization, food insecurity, elevated health risks, and inadequate access to quality healthcare. In a conversation with Stéphanie Larrieux, Professor Elizabeth Hoover discusses the relationship between the environment and Indigenous community health, and examines opportunities for meaningful change. (Video - 25 minutes) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Underlying Conditions: Indigenous Communities Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Today@Brown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 28, 2020 food insecurity racism https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/51613/archive/files/e8809d1033b558f61482af8d930102cb.png?Expires=1779321600&Signature=tjvbICAOGP-63LJuBbkjqMyGB2Q8PrjVS864L9bbREAHElBP6LQvJCFcBGrBC1nsye1NdBTCEYtXaKB6BKChn2t031ieVjdoQGRAeaY3CxkJq9ePqiHZuywPcgGmK4eohWk1XUhFTZWtpKYFBQ20hcAEb93ldJVk4DAL263IqqXQZdhYlU1qoNb5iDXN1rXz8UeIIvoJiyc1IxuSdUi397Z%7ENI7sMHOZq%7Eh1-YwBfGemC%7EYNiMn03iBNnhDlZFUczDY9FXYW1h8gyQqzKAOb3XfEUyDvddWEAwJaH8ZB4SyEy3skWHCW9V84KdiyXEex0pUtzSEr1YUGUV7FSY1Isg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 725c8b3d14d1696c49df233be5e3c093 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown Daily Herald Description An account of the resource This collection consists of articles published by the Brown Daily Herald, the undergraduate daily student newspaper, in regards to COVID-19 at Brown. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Lately, I’ve been imagining the next time things will feel “normal” again, and the visions I conjure up are blurry, ill-formed and inexact; watercolors with murky paints and flooded lines. Take a survey of these past months alone: millions infected, hundreds of thousands dead, people wielding arms in state capitols, Black people murdered and their names chanted on the streets, police tear-gassing and clubbing protestors and journalists alike, a stock market rising while the number of unemployed grows, masks, gloves, averted eyes. The only comfort I take in this disorienting time is the thought that, maybe, this is what change feels like. But even amid the necessary social and cultural upheaval, I seek a return to normal, at least back to the time when I could hug my friends instead of waving from my car window, when the news wasn’t just an updating ticker of how many have been infected and how many are now dead. I bet everyone at Brown does too, given the recent University polling results: 84 percent of returning students said they would enroll next semester if the University proceeds with a “normal academic calendar and welcome(s) all students back to campus in the fall.” But I’m not sure that reopening campus will bring us the relief we hope it will. The Brown we return to, whenever that may be, will look drastically different than the one we left in March. Colleges planning on in-person fall semesters, such as Middlebury, Yale and Cornell, have already instituted physical distancing guidelines, mask policies, take-out only dining halls, hotel housing and single-occupancy dorm rooms. For colleges — institutions designed to encourage face-to-face discussion, academic and club gatherings, a shared-living experience as well as a collaborative learning environment — a physically-distanced and mask-enforced semester seems antithetical to their entire purpose. With cases rising in the South and West of the United States, I hesitate to rush to reopen campus in the fall. President Paxson’s April op-ed in the New York Times juxtaposed the wellbeing of students with the economic wellbeing of Brown as a private university, glossing over the professional and financial incentives she has as University president to reopen campus. And this kind of rhetoric, that things “must” reopen, only rushes and undermines the safe reopening of public spaces, potentially overwhelming local and state hospitals and jeopardizing public safety. In a May New York Times opinion piece titled “No One Knows What’s Going to Happen,” Columbia professor Mark Lilla wrote that we are living in a “state of radical uncertainty.” There is no telling how many of us will become infected or when a vaccine will become available to the public. But Professor Lilla argues that instead of speculating on the future — Will we still shake hands, kiss each other on the cheek, say “God bless you” after a sneeze? Or will we grimace, shift away and keep our distance? — we should focus on our present actions: how we behave, how we test and how we treat. It’s easy to get caught up in what the future will look like but we first have to grapple with our present. If we rush ahead, then we risk causing further harm. Daily cases are at record highs in places such as Texas and Florida, likely because state officials underestimated the virus’ ability to spread and began their reopening processes too soon. I worry about the University’s ability to test and trace in a pandemic, and admittedly, our ability as a student body to follow the health guidelines on and off-campus, at parties and gatherings. Are we really going to turn someone away from a space if their presence crosses the 25 or 50 person limit? While the University likely plans to test students upon arrival and conduct random testing throughout the semester, testing is only one aspect of containing this virus. What happens when a student gets sick? The virus’ effects are generally mild among a student demographic, but what if a handful of us get infected and the virus spreads to other parts of our community, like faculty, maintenance staff, dining hall staff or the larger Providence community? Last March, we had to abruptly move out due to an increase in cases in the area, which included a faculty member. What if that happened again? What’s changed besides a run of 45,000+ daily new cases? In a press release detailing Cornell’s plans to reopen campus in the fall, their President Martha E. Pollack stated that, “‘Residential instruction, when coupled with a robust virus screening program of the form we intend to implement, is a better option for protecting the public health of our community than a purely online semester.’” I remain unconvinced as to how bringing back students from across the country and placing them in a small residential community is the “better option” for safeguarding public health. A screening program does little to mitigate the effects of becoming seriously ill, or of falling behind on coursework as a result. If colleges are mostly relying on testing to keep their campuses safe, I fear for the person who eventually gets sick. I recognize that for many students, remote learning was awful and remains an unfeasible option. During a pandemic that is disproportionately affecting communities of color, in a country where the wealth gap between the richest and the poor is growing, learning on your own without adequate resources is a herculean task. In the midst of a pandemic, education, supposedly the great equalizer, is exacerbating and exposing the inequalities that hinder far too many folks. It should be no surprise that those who are the most routinely marginalized are the ones suffering the most in a pandemic. The wellbeing and safety of all students, but particularly those who might identify with these circumstances, should be the University’s highest priority. If the University pursues an online semester, those students should be able to return to campus if they want to and be provided housing and dining. The University could create small “family” groups for these students and arrange for them to have a faculty advisor/mentor who frequently checks-in. Even then, there is the possibility that those students could contract the virus. But it would be easier to contain the virus’ spread among a couple hundred students rather than a couple thousand. While remote learning might seem like an undesirable option, as only 47 percent of returning students said they would complete an online semester, there are ways to make this format as effective as a limited, on-campus semester would be. For students like myself, who are lucky enough to have safe homes to go back to and the time and space to dedicate to coursework, it would be up to us to reach out to friends and peers alike who might be struggling or who we know are struggling. Make discussion groups that meet after class a few times a week; check in with classmates regularly; have book clubs; supplement the curriculum with movies, articles, workshops. This can even translate into the communities and people outside of the University: offer up a spare room (if you have one) as a study space for neighbors and friends of friends; tutor; check in on those around you. While the federal response to the virus has been lacking, we can institute the reforms and plans we want to see in our local communities and care for those the system often neglects. I believe this kind of outreach and initiative would be necessary regardless of whether we’re separated by computer screens or six feet of space. A time of “radical uncertainty” calls for radical empathy. I don’t think any option for the fall semester is perfect, but I think the safest option we have for next semester is to continue online learning. With a few months of experience on Zoom, and a summer that hopefully produced new ideas from faculty on how to create a more engaging and supportive learning experience, I don’t think the fall semester would be a wash. The responsibility lies on us as members of the Brown community to ensure that it isn’t one, to support our peers and feel a shared responsibility for the well-being of those around us, regardless of what learning option the University decides to pursue. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Online newspaper article Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Litman ’20.5: Remote Learning Won’t Be Easy, But It’s the Safest Option We Have. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Today@Brown Description An account of the resource This collection captures the different events announced on Today@Brown, a daily email received by all members of Brown, as screenshots. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document To the Brown University Community: As of Feb. 13, China’s national health commission has confirmed around 60,000 cases of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Some believe this number is under-reported, but regardless of the numbers, it is abundantly clear that Novel Coronavirus is a global public health emergency. Brown China Summit stands in solidarity with all those affected directly or indirectly by this crisis. This disease has brought the lives of many to a screeching halt. We especially stand with the victims, and we especially stand with those who have loved ones at risk. We condemn prejudice against Chinese citizens or those of Chinese descent, and we condemn panic and misinformative news. The world must come together in response to this crisis rather than blame or panic. Health Services staff at Brown have seen no suspected cases of Coronavirus and have identified no specific risks to any members of the Brown community. Our annual event will go on as planned. Still, the disease has indirectly affected many members of our community and their families, and it is something that everyone at Brown should be aware of. For questions related to Brown University's response and support please visit Brown's official FAQ on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. The Watson Institute also has a resource page to stay up to date on the outbreak. Stay strong Wuhan! Sincerely, Brown China Summit Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown China Summit Coronavirus Statement Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jackson W Barkstrom Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Today@Brown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 15, 2020 China racism