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May 11, 2017

Hundreds Protest Cuts at Stony Brook University
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In New York, hundreds of students and faculty at Stony Brook University
held sit-ins and demonstrations Wednesday to protest proposed $1.5
million budget cuts to the Humanities and Language departments. The cuts
would particularly affect the Hispanic languages and cultural studies.

Gabriel Rudas: "My name is Gabriel Rudas. I'm a graduate student from
the Hispanic Languages and Literature Department. We came here to
protest against the irrational cuts Professor Sacha Kopp is doing
against our department. We stand for the high quality of the research
and for diversity, and we think that these cuts are a discriminatory
measure taken against the Latino community."



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