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Valentine’s Day and Relationship Building Express Yourself!™ and host Andrea Smith welcome a new reporter, Diya Hituvalli with her segment, Silver Lining. Diya shares fun historical and trivia facts about the celebration of Valentine’s Day, a celebration that began with the Romans who, on February 14th, executed clergyman Valentine who was performing banned marriages for soldiers. Diya offers…

April 10, 2014

(http://chancellor.syr.edu/messages/m/boys-from-syracuse.html)

Yo Kent,

  We laughing at you, bro!! As my WGS TA always says, #SettlerColonialism!! (shit, I'm learning something other than #BEERBEERBEER). Hey man, I also heard about that whole reward schools based on their SAT scores. I think that's bullshit, bro! I love you man and think you’re one cool dude, but seriously that shit is whack! I mean, we might be missing some dope people if you do that. I don't want everyone to look like me! That's hella wrong! (I learned about #StructuralOppression too - if my TA is reading this, holla!! extra credit!!)

 April 10, 2014

(http://chancellor.syr.edu/messages/m/boys-from-syracuse.html)

Just a concerned community member here. After paralleling your life narrative to some pretty "high" culture (Shakespeare, Mozart, etc), you then wrote that "it would be good for us Syracusans to retain our sense of history and of humor – and to avoid hubris." It just seems ironic. I would ask, WHOSE history and WHOSE humor must we retain? Because, in fact, the history, or ahistory, that you tell is deeply violent, erasing the University's role and the region's history in settler colonialism. You do realize we are occupying land of the Onondaga Nation? Let's get you some #AndreaSmith articles because, in fact, that whole hubris thing is YOUR problem.

  Also, if you're looking for plays and media to watch, how about checking out the media from the Onondaga Nation. You just might learn something to quell your hubris in those videos. Well, one can hope.

  Patty