Chinese students affected by US shootings
The most recent mass shooting on an American college campus has left some Chinese students — the largest group of international students in the US — feeling scared and numb to the violence.
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The most recent mass shooting on an American college campus has left some Chinese students — the largest group of international students in the US — feeling scared and numb to the violence.
Haoyu Wang, 26, a Chinese graduate student at the University of Utah, allegedly killed his girlfriend Zhifan Dong, 19, by injecting her with a fatal dose a heroin on Friday.
| Updated: March 3, 2021, 8:24 p.m. A bill seeking to improve safety at Utah’s colleges passed through the Senate on Tuesday — but not before it was gutted of a key effort to involve students in the conversation. The measure, SB163, now no longer includes its biggest provision that would have created a commission of students to look at security on campus and make recommendations to the state on how to fix ongoing issues they see. “This was something our students really wanted,” said Sen. Jani Iwamoto, D-Holladay and the sponsor. “We were all excited about the positive impact of thi...