<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Gregory Rothman <<a href="mailto:gregdov@gmail.com">gregdov@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 10, 2011 1:49:49 AM EST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Gregory Rothman <<a href="mailto:GregDov@gmail.com">GregDov@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Support Africana: Friday morning please don't forward to lists</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; ">We are going to be getting started a closer to nine, give me a call if you are interested/able in being involved. 631-745-9486</span></b></span></font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Helvetica"><b>SAVE THE AFRICANA </b></font><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Arial"><b>CENTER </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Helvetica"><b>PRESS CONFERENCE</b></font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"><i>Students, faculty, & community members gather to show support and national significance of Africana to Cornell's board of Trustees </i></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"><b>On Friday March 11th, at 10:00am The Save the Africana Center Action Committee will be holding a press conference in front of Willard Straight Hall on Ho Plaza on the Cornell campus in Ithaca NY</b>. Students, faculty, and community members will gather to tell the board of trustees that they continue to be dissatisfied with the administration's decision regarding the Africana Studies and Research Center. The press conference will address the Africana Studies and Research Center’s position as a flagship in Africana and Black Studies, corporatization of the university as marked by a continued lack of dialogue, and call for the immediate reversal of Provost Fuch’s decision.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">At the end of last semester Provost Fuchs announced a unilateral decision to demote the Africana Studies and Research Center to a program within the College of Arts and Sciences. The Administration promises that the move will be accompanied by increased funding and support but has not demonstrated their ability to do so. Although the Provost claims that this move is in Africana's best interest, his blatant disregard for the voices who have an invested interest in the Center make it clear that he doesn't understand why the Africana Studies and Research Center needs to exists in the first place. </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">The Save Africana Center Action Committee consists of students, alum, faculty, staff, and community members who are aware of the often tumultuous history and international significance of the center. The group is committed to full reversal of the decision and will not let it's controversial announcement be forgotten like the administration hopes.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">WHO: Save Africana Center Action Committee; Students, faculty, community members </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">WHAT: Press conference explaining the national significance of the ARSC to Cornell's Trustees</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Where: Ho Plaza, in front of Willard Straight Hall on the Cornell University Campus, NY 14853</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">When: On Friday March 11th, at 10:00am</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Why: The administration's unilateral decision about the future of Africana & disregard for experts in the field and the voices of those involved with the Center.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Press contact: Greg Rothman</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Save Africana Action Committee: Media Team</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#0032dc" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; color: #0032dc"><a href="mailto:Gregdov@gmail.com">Gregdov@gmail.com</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#135da8" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; color: #135da8">(631)-745-9486</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#0032dc" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; color: #0032dc"><a href="http://saveasrc.blogspot.com/">http://saveasrc.blogspot.com</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">/</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> </div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>