Arizona State kept its normal academic schedule despite a widely publicized online petition that urged the university to cancel classes because students were worried about coronavirus. AD“Stop normalizing racism,” a molecular virologist named Dustin R. Glasner, who is Asian American, wrote on Twitter. ADAt Arizona State, university officials disclosed Jan. 26 that a person connected to the community had been diagnosed with the coronavirus. “Xenophobia has always targeted us, but the coronavirus has created new waves of racist rhetoric online, in schools and on our campuses,” said Shelley Shin, executive director of the East Coast Asian American Student Union. ADADAt Arizona State, one student recounted a brief but painful incident she suspects was racially motivated and connected to virus fears.

Source: Washington Post February 09, 2020 00:13 UTC