During its May 5 meeting, Texas Stateâs Faculty Senate held its last monthly President s Academic Advisory Group (PAAG) of the semester and discussed budgets, considered confidentiality in hiring processes and filled internal Senate roles for the next term.
President Denise Trauth opened the meeting by addressing Faculty Senate inquiries as to whether an incentive could be set for students who get vaccinated. Trauth believes any sort of incentive results in the withholding of benefits from those not receiving a vaccination, and according to the universityâs general counsel, this action would likely contradict Gov. Greg Abbottâs executive order making vaccine passports illegal.
Texas State business freshman Heather Tran (left) and communication and English senior Amrin Madhani talk with each other, Friday, April 2, 2021, at Mochas & Javas. Natalie Ryan
Heather Tran was walking near The Square when she was confronted by three male students pulling at their eyelids to mock her monolid eye shape.
While being mocked and told âThis is what white privilege looks like,â Tran got an unnerving feeling and the reassurance that racism was not a hallucination.
âI have faced racism [like] every other minority,â Tran says. âI have faced racism from adults to kids, to people my age and I ve experienced it here at Texas State.Texas State is not an exception.â
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Congressman Lloyd Doggettâs video in which he condemned the U.S. Capitol insurrection was not played at Texas Stateâs virtual Inauguration Day ceremony due to a lack of time to receive approval, according to the faculty member who made the decision.
Doggett (D-TX) was originally invited to provide remarks at the universityâs virtual program on Jan. 20, a non-partisan affair, after it was switched from an in-person format due to COVID-19 protocols.
While attending President Joe Bidenâs inauguration, he was notified that his pre-recorded video, which includes quoted remarks from Republicans in Congress also condemning the Capitol attack, would not make the university ceremony â news he later describes, to the Austin American-Statesman, as a disappointment and suppression of his free speech.