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LGBT Issues

SB 1070 - Immigration

• The New York Times Times Topics on SB 1070
• 12/12/2011: The New York Times: Court to Weigh Arizona Statute on Immigration
• 12/9/2011: ABC News: Supreme Court to Take a Look at Arizona's Immigration Law Friday
• 11/9/2011: The Arizona Republic: National Council of La Raza calls off boycott
• 11/8/2011: Arizona Voters Recall SB 1070 Author Senator Russell Pearce (read article in The Arizona Republic)
• Full text of SB 1070, with notes on the July 29 injunction blocking parts of the law
  KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: One of the blocked provisions was that which provided that a law enforcement officer could ask a person stopped, detained, or arrested for their papers if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally.
  
  

Ethnic Studies

• 1/24/2012: In Response to AZ Ban, Students in Tucson Hold Their Own Ethnic Studies Classes
• 1/20/2012: Judge refuses to halt law banning Tucson ethnic studies program (LA Times)
  refused to grant injunction, but ruled that students could challenge the law on 1st Amendment grounds; teachers have no standing
• 5/11/2010: Arizona Law Curbs Ethnic Studies Classes (The New York Times)
  The law authorizes the state superintendent to stop any ethnic studies classes that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment toward a race or class of people, are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.
   

Related NASPA Links

• 2012 NASPA Annual Conference Chair Larry Roper video clip on engaging
• Personal statement of Patricia Telles-Irvin, NASPA President
• Sampling of documents reviewed by NASPA Board of Directors in making its decision to keep conference in Arizona
• NASPA DREAM Act leadership
  

When the NASPA Board of Directors made the decision to keep the 2012 NASPA Annual Conference in Arizona, it was with the intent and promise of engaging difficult issues in the way that those of us in student affairs do every day. There is a great educational value to NASPA's being in Arizona, and the 2012 NASPA Annual Conference Planning Committee looks forward to truly enacting its theme to Ignite Leadership Influence Change. How we present ourselves as an association within a political environment, recognizing we have members whose political ideologies span the spectrum could not be more important.

Featured Speakers John Legend Lt.. Dan Choi  Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch Trish Downing Bill Richardson

 Opportunities to Engage

• Community Service Project
  
• Artwork display
  
• Purposeful Sharing
  
• The Tunnel of Oppression is designed to create an awareness of different types of oppression, and its effects, within society and the campus community. The primary goal of the Tunnel is to create an experiential program for students, faculty and staff. The program challenges the senses and feeling of participants in a safe environment and by incorporating such issues like race, body image, domestic violence, and hate speech. The NASPA experience will allow participants to view the various components and expose them to different kinds of oppression, including racism, homophobia, sexism, abelism, classism, and anti-Semitism and provide information on sponsoring the Tunnel on individual campuses.
   
  The Tunnel will be open from 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. on Monday, March 12, and Tuesday, March 13. Tours will occur every hour with processing sessions at the end of each tour. There will be a 3:00 Informational Session at the end of each day providing more detailed specifics on sponsoring the Tunnel on your campus. This session will allow for a more detailed question and answer period on sponsoring the Tunnel.
   

• The Disability History Exhibit chronicles 3,500 years of seldom-told history. From antiquity to the present, the exhibit brings viewers through an illustrated timeline that shows society's attitudes and how these affected the lives of people with disabilities. The treatment of people with disabilities is approached from multiple angles including a moral, medical and social perspective.

• Candlelight Vigil for Social Justice and Change to raise awareness regarding the implications of legislation for students, staff, and higher education more broadly. We are connecting with local organizations currently on the ground working on issues of social justice to allow conference attendees the opportunity to engage as they see fit on issues of importance to them.

Further, many of our Knowledge Communities are developing resources, which will be shared here as they are made available.

Program Sessions

• Bringing Socioeconomic Class Into Our Consciousness
• Bystander Intervention: Application to Combat Racism and Homophobia
• Changing Campus Climate to Support LGBTQ Students
• Community-based Participatory Research: An Inclusive Change Model
• Crossing Over: Immigrant Stories of Body, Heart, and Soul
• Dreams Deferred: Undocumented Students in Higher Education
• Effects of Racial Microaggressions on Asian American Students
• Immigrant Youth Perspectives on Identity and College Access
• Making Them Visible: Microaggressions and Multiracial Students
• Microaggressions and the Latino/a Campus Experience in Arizona
• Racial Justice in the Immigration Debate on College Campuses
• Rejecting Religious Homophobia: Lesbian and Gay Student Voices
• SB 1070: The Impact Two Years Later
• Soy AB 540: Californian Undocumented Student Identity Development
• Supporting the Dreams of Undocumented Students
• Undocumented. Unsupported. Unacceptable.