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Welcome to Chinese Language Day!
As the world’s most widely spoken language it seems appropriate that Mandarin Chinese has one day every year dedicated to it. This officially marked day of Mandarin language celebration was established by the United Nations as a way of celebrating the language’s history and overall contribution to the world. It is hoped that by having one day every year to celebrate Mandarin Chinese this additional focus on the language will encourage more people around the world to take it up. With China likely to become the largest economy in the world it is important that the wider world becomes interestingly more proficient in this wonderful language. Chinese Language Day is annually celebrated in April. A great way to get involved in the celebration is to join a Mandarin class or attend one of the many Confucian Hubs now established by China in countries around the world.
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On The Block On Demand 4-19 (espnsyracuse.com; podcast; Axe)
Brent opens the show talking about Tyus Battle and the wait for his decision about his basketball future. Later, he goes around the sports world in H0T Takes, including his reaction to LeBron being asked an awkward question right after last night’s game ended.
Orange Watch: A good sign for Tyus Battle returning to Syracuse? - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: A good sign?
The player featured on cuse.com promoting 2018-19 Syracuse basketball season tickets is…Tyus Battle. Does the school know something about Battle’s future plans that he has yet to make public?
Obviously, if Battle returns to the program the Orange can deploy the same starting lineup that made a surprising Sweet 16 run this past season, two prominent bench players, a ready-to-contribute transfer, and a minimum of two recruits with the likely addition of a third newcomer.
By-the-way, the Orange player featured on cuse.com promoting 2018 football tickets is not surprisingly quarterback Eric Dungey, while redshirt sophomore attackman Stephen Rehfuss is featured promoting ’18 lacrosse tickets.
Item: It’s no surprise that the ACC again scheduled Syracuse and Duke for a home-and-home pairing, part of the recently announced complete schedule of home and away league opponents for the 2018-19 season. The SU-DU matchup has resonated in the ‘Cuse’s short ACC tenure.
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College of Engineering and Computer Science announces diversity initiatives in wake of Theta Tau suspension (DO; Muller)
About 100 Syracuse University community members gathered in the Life Sciences Complex on Tuesday night to discuss the College of Engineering and Computer Science’s response to the nationally-circulating Theta Tau video.
The college will implement a number of diversity initiatives, including the creation of a diversity council, the addition of diversity education in a first-year course and mandatory diversity training for college administrators.
Teresa Dahlberg, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, said the diversity initiatives were prompted by the release of the Theta Tau video.
SU’s chapter of Theta Tau, a professional engineering fraternity, was suspended Wednesday morning after the university confirmed it was involved in the creation of online videos showing fraternity members engaging in behaviors that were “extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist, and hostile to people with disabilities,” Chancellor Kent Syverud said in a campus-wide email Wednesday.
“Integrating diversity education into the curriculum has been suggested campus-wide for a while now,” said Teresa Dahlberg, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. “The conversation yesterday brought me to say, ‘We’re going to do this and we’re going to do it now.’”
According to a document projected on a screen during the town hall, the College of Engineering and Computer Science will implement the following diversity initiatives:
- The Dean’s Leadership Team, composed of all administrators in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, will participate in mandatory diversity training before the end of the 2017-18 academic year.
