do not use this page! MARIST CIRCLE 1 • PRINT EDITION OUT BI-WEEKLY ON TUESDAYS POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020 MARISTCIRCLE.COM | VOL 74 ISSUE 11 INSIDE: firewall : Chinese Night at the censorship apollo installation NEWS | PAGE 2 NEWS | PAGE 4 Around Marist Suspends Spring Programming the Circle at Florence Campus BY ALEXANDRIA WATTS Programs at Marist, in a statement Your Bi-Weekly News Editor released on Feb. 29. “While daily life in Florence Marist College announced News Briefing remains calm, we realize this has that regular programming and been a stressful time for students coursework at its Florence and families. We are committed campus will be suspended for to working with each student the remainder of the Spring 2020 individually to make arrangements CORONAVIRUS semester on Feb. 29. Marist College will be hold- to return home safely.” The announcement was ing a town hall for students, The 163 Marist Italy students prompted due to the Centers for tomorrow Wednesday, March were instructed that they will Disease Control and Prevention 4 at 1 p.m. Attend the infor- be able to complete their spring (CDC) raising their advisory level mation session to hear from semester coursework from home for Italy to a Level 3. This means multiple departments around beginning Mar. 23. that all nonessential travel to Marist to hear answers to any “Marist staff are working to the country should be avoided, concerns or questions stu- support students to plan their and that “there is a widespread, dents might have. journeys home during this difficult ongoing outbreak of respiratory time,” Peters said. illness (COVID-19) caused by a A subsequent update, posted novel (new) coronavirus that can later in the afternoon on Feb. 29, be spread from person to person,” stated that Marist will provide according to the CDC website. students returning from Italy with “Our top concern is first and FLORENCE a $500 travel allowance and that Marist College made the de- foremost the health, safety, and cision to close the Florence security of our students,” said Dr. campus on Feb. 29 following John Peters, Dean of International CONTINUE ON PAGE 3 the largest Coronavirus out- Source: Tara Guaimano break outside of mainland China. This evacuation was prompted after the Center for Disease Control and Preven- Marist Reviews Financial Relationship with tion marked Italy as a Level 3 travel advisory. Sprout Creek Farm BY TARA GUAIMANO A Facebook group titled “Save operating,” the statement said. to reassess its relationship with the Editor-in-Chief Sprout Creek Farm” claimed that “During the past two years farm moving forward. Marist has issued an official the presidential leadership change the College has, in good faith, “These facts, coupled with the CAREER FAIR statement regarding the future of at Marist resulted in a funding cut undertaken significant initiatives unanticipated expenditure of Marist Center for Career Ser- their financial relationship with for the farm. Organizers in the to facilitate the long-term viability continued time and resources, vice is holding the Spring Sprout Creek Farm, a nonprofit social media group claimed that of the Farm, a local organization have necessitated a reassessment 2020 Career and Internship farm in Poughkeepsie. the farm is currently struggling to with an important mission.” of the arrangement,” the statement fair on Friday, March 6 from According to the statement, produce its award-winning cheese Marist has continued to subsidize said. “At this time, the College is 12 to 3 p.m. in the Student Sprout Creek Farm was “a separate owing to the halt of a creamery the Farm’s operations and has made working to determine the best path Center. Companies attending nonprofit entity, struggling to construction project on-site. a substantial financial investment forward with all of the involved include IBM, KPMG, Consumer sustain operations and remain The group has since been deleted. into improving its infrastructure, stakeholders, including the Farm Reports, FBI, etc. The Center viable.” In 2018, individuals “The College’s involvement gave the statement said. Therefore, the and the Society of the Sacred for Career Services urges stu- associated with the Farm and the Farm a lifeline to continue college has determined it necessary Heart.” dents to come in professional the Society of the Sacred Heart, a attire. Catholic order of nuns, contacted Marist for help. Shortly after, control of the operations of the farm was transferred to Marist under the administration of former President FOR THE RECORD David Yellen. The For the Record staff is “Sprout Creek will play a key role working diligently to prepare in Marist’s experiential learning FTR for the launch event on programs by serving as a living April 2 in the Marist Student classroom and providing hands-on Center. Stay tuned for more in- learning opportunities for students formation on timing and how in a variety of academic disciplines,” to get your hands on the mag- Geoffrey Brackett, Marist Executive azine! Vice president, said at the time. Since then, the College “learned of some issues facing it that had not been disclosed to the College prior to the transfer of control,” according to a Feb. 25 official Contact our Managing Marist statement. Hudson Valley residents’ Editor to submit a news tip: concerns about the future of the Kenneth.Guillaume1 farm have been made apparent on @marist.edu social media. Source: Marist College 2 • INSPIRING STUDENT VOICES EST. 1941 POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020 MARISTCIRCLE.COM MARIST CIRCLE NEWS FIREWALL Internet Cafe Gives Glimpse of Repressive Chinese Censorship Source: Lauren Vicenzi BY TARA GUAIMANO & Lee started the project after “Authorities, especially sexually abused, and subjected to RAPHAEL BERETTA taking a group of artists from authoritarian governments are 24-hour surveillance. Editor-in-Chief & Creative Director America to Beijing on an artist actively trying to censor [art]. Rajagopalan currently covers residency. After a few years of “Art Our project, which was about threats to mass surveillance in the Students in the lounge of Fusco raising money and developing the censorship, is actually actively Middle East, at the intersection of Hall got a glimpse of the repressive technology, the exhibit premiered actually being censored,” Lee said. human rights and technology. censorship felt in China on near Chinatown of New York City in Lee presented the exhibit “Surveillance and our privacy Wednesday night. 2016. Since then, it has been shown has the at Marist in collaboration in digital spaces is something that Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Assistant in Michigan, Norway, Austria, and with a lecture from Buzzfeed all of us think a lot about, whether Professor of Digital Media, recently Hong Kong. power to International Correspondent it relates to issues around social recreated her “FIREWALL Internet Lee and her team faced pressure Megha Rajagopalan. The two met media and advertising companies Cafe” art installation in pop- from Chinese officials following the intimidate at the Oslo Freedom Forum in 2017 to government surveillance,” up form at Marist. The exhibit’s opening of FIREWALL. A human and connected over their shared Rajagopalan said. “I’m hoping mission is to draw attention to rights lawyer who won two cases interests in internet freedom and to sort of shed some light on the lack of freedom Chinese web- against the Chinese government for authority” curtailing government oppression. how those issues impact not just surfers endure. malpractice over the single-child — Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Rajagopalan worked as a Americans, but people who live in FIREWALL grants visitors the policy was set to speak at a panel journalist in China for six years, different parts of World.” opportunity to search for content Lee was organizing. Assistant Professor of and won the Human Rights Press Marist students were able to through Google images and The panel was focused on how Digital Media Award in 2018 after shedding light become a part of this project Baidu, the most prominent search feminists in China were able to use on an internment camp for Uighur from their own campus. If anyone engine in China, side by side. A technology as a form of activism. Muslims. missed the event, they can access chrome plugin allows the language Lee knew she had to be careful in Rajagopalan found that people an audio recording of the lecture entered in the search bar to be involving this particular lawyer, refrain from participating in the were being sent to these camps from the library’s archive and can translated directly into Chinese. as she found out about her work panel by threatening her employer. in the far western region of China interact with FIREWALL at https:// The juxtaposition of the results one through Amnesty International, Lee had removed any evidence of for seemingly minor offenses, such firewallcafe.com/. The lecture would expect with censored Baidu but she “never thought [this] this participation from the internet as having too many foreign phone was presented through Marist’s findings is jarring. project would be the tipping point.” and reached out to those in China numbers or banned apps like Strategic Initiative Funding “Art actually has the power to Members of the Chinese that had posted about the event on WhatsApp on their phones. Inside, (SPPAC). intimidate authority,” Lee said. government forced the lawyer to social media to remove their posts. innocent people were beaten, Faculty Composition on Campus The Ratio of Adjuncts and Full-Time Instructors BY GRETA STUCKEY of 15 to 1 which means Marist doctorate while the majority of new professors with substantial The topic of full-time faculty Staff Writer is worse than the typical college adjunct roles require a master’s,” faculty involvement. versus part-time faculty can Many students sit in class during regarding instructional attention.