For the second time in a year, a racist word has been found in a dormitory on the St. Thomas campus.
President Julie Sullivan announced via email Thursday that students found a “racist word traced in dust on a bathroom window” late Wednesday night in the all-male Ireland Hall.
“This word and the person(s) responsible for writing it have no place within our community. This is an act of hate against our black residents and a damaging act against the entire St. Thomas community,” Residence Life Director Aaron Macke wrote in an email to Ireland residents.
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The federal government will act to ban thousands of flavors used in e-cigarettes, President Donald Trump said Wednesday, responding to a recent surge in underage vaping that has alarmed parents, politicians and health authorities nationwide.
The surprise White House announcement could remake the multibillion-dollar vaping industry, which has been driven by sales of flavored nicotine formulas such as “grape slushie” and “strawberry cotton candy.”
The Food and Drug Administration will develop guidelines to remove from the market all e-cigarette flavors except tobacco, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters during an Oval Office appearance with the president, first lady Melania Trump and the acting FDA commissioner, Ned Sharpless.
Despite the miles traveled, the tens of millions of dollars raised and the ceaseless churn of policy papers, the Democratic primary has been remarkably static for months with Joe Biden leading in polls and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders vying to be the progressive alternative. That stability is under threat on Thursday.
All of the top presidential candidates will share a debate stage, a setting that could make it harder to avoid skirmishes among the early front-runners. The other seven candidates, meanwhile, are under growing pressure to prove they’re still in the race to take on President Donald Trump next November.
The debate in Houston comes at a pivotal point as many voters move past their summer vacations and start to pay closer attention to the campaign. With the audience getting bigger, the ranks of candidates shrinking and first votes approaching in five months, the stakes are rising.
The ABC News debate is the first confined to one night after several candidates dropped out and others failed to meet new qualification standards.
Abby Sliva can be reached at sliv7912@stthomas.edu.