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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Dear UO Senate Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">We received a request from our colleague Jeanne
</span><span style="color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Nagayama
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Hall to share with you this statement (below) prepared by the
</span><span style="color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">UO Asian Desi Pacific Islander Strategies Group (ADPI SG) denouncing anti-Asian sentiment related to COVID-19. Senate leadership supports this call
as well and we are very happy to share their statement with you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Thank you,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#44546A">Elizabeth A. Skowron, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#44546A">Professor, Department of Psychology<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#44546A">Center for Translational Neuroscience
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#44546A">UO Senate President<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#44546A">University of Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#44546A">Eugene, OR 97403<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://ctn.uoregon.edu/"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#44546A">http://ctn.uoregon.edu/</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#44546A">Tel. 541-346-9329<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D"><img border="0" width="120" height="111" style="width:1.25in;height:1.1562in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01D61E04.BAA730F0" alt="cid:image001.gif@01CE1104.B9070730"></span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Jeanne Hall <jmhall@uoregon.edu>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 28, 2020 6:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Elizabeth Skowron <eskowron@uoregon.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Elliot Berkman <berkman@uoregon.edu>; Gordon Hall <gnhall@uoregon.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> ADPI Strategies Group: Denouncement of Anti-Asian Discrimination & COVID-19<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="color:black">Dear Elizabeth Skowron,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="color:black">The UO Asian Desi Pacific Islander Strategies Group (ADPI SG) is requesting your support for our statement to denounce the increased anti-Asian sentiment with COVID-19. In solidarity
with other marginalized groups, we ask that you show your public support for this statement by forwarding this to the University Senate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="color:black">A copy of our statement is in the attached pdf.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="color:black">Thank you for your support,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="color:black">Jeanne Nagayama Hall, ADPI SG faculty member<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="color:black">On behalf of ADPI SG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Denouncement of Anti-Asian Discrimination & COVID-19</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We, the University of Oregon Asian Desi Pacific Islander Strategies Group (ADPI SG), recognize that the University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya
people. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon, and they continue to make important contributions in their communities, at UO, and across
the land we now refer to as Oregon. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We write this statement in solidarity with our students and community members of Asian, Desi, and Pacific Islander backgrounds as the COVID-19 pandemic reveals the xenophobia and racism that is still pervasive
throughout our communities and society. The University of Oregon Asian Desi Pacific Islander Strategies Group and allies denounce these increasing acts of discrimination and violence targeted against Asian and Asian American communities locally and nationally.
We recognize that these incidents, implicit and explicit, take place both online and in-person. With shelter-in-place orders across the nation, a significant number of in-person incidents take place in essential stores and on public walkways.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Together, we call upon our greater community to stop the use of harmful language, including labels such as the “Chinese Virus” or the “Wuhan Virus,” when this global pandemic affects all of humanity. These
labels and other microaggressions, along with blatant violence and actions of hate, do not stop or slow down this pandemic. They only contribute to the anti-Asian and anti-Asian American stigma.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">More than ever, we call upon the University of Oregon and greater community to be vigilant against acts of discrimination and to be united in calling out incidents directed, not only to ADPI persons, but also
towards other marginalized communities, such as Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and LGBTQIA communities.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We offer these suggestions for action:
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-<b>Correct</b> any person who mislabels the virus and pandemic and ask them to use the term COVID-19 or coronavirus.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-Educate</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> those in our networks about the historical and structural factors of racism and xenophobia and its interconnectedness of current anti-Asian racism with
historical and current oppression in other marginalized communities. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-Report</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> incidents of hate and bias.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For UO students, faculty, and staff:
</span><a href="https://dos.uoregon.edu/concern"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">https://dos.uoregon.edu/concern</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Community members in Eugene may report to the Hate & Bias Report:
</span><a href="https://www.eugene-or.gov/3643/Hate-and-Bias-Report"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">https://www.eugene-or.gov/3643/Hate-and-Bias-Report</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-Recognize</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> that experiencing a</span><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3049423/coronavirus-outbreak-has-stoked-rise-xenophobia-chinese-living"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">nti-Asian
xenophobia and racism</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">can negatively affect the recipient’s physical and mental health. Don’t minimize the effects or make it a joke.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-Resist</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> attempts to divide Asian American communities from other communities who face racism and discrimination.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We come together in fighting these viral and racial threats by building solidarity together and working towards a more compassionate and inclusive community.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In solidarity, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ADPI (Asian Desi Pacific Islander) Strategies Group
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:adpisig@uoregon.edu"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">adpisig@uoregon.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">UO Division of Equity & Inclusion
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Black Strategies Group </span>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Native American Strategies Group,
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Latinx Strategies Group </span>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression (SOAGIE) Strategies Group</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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