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Biology professor honored with CSUSB Golden Apple Award for teaching excellence
Redlands-Loma Linda Patch
Feb. 28, 2023
Stuart Sumida is the 2022-23 recipient of the university’s Golden Apple Award, which recognizes outstanding faculty who excel in the profession of teaching and have a significant impact on students with whom they interact.
CSUSB’s Brian Levin comments on Elon Musk’s accusations that U.S. media is ‘racist against whites & Asians’
CNBC
Feb. 27, 2023
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter, accused “the media” and “elite colleges and high schools” of being “racist” against white and Asian people, espousing his views without providing evidence on Sunday.
Brian Levin, a civil rights attorney and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino said, in response to Musk’s tweets: “Systemic racism requires not only widespread bigotry to be held within a group but also a structural component that allows discrimination and oppression to be imposed on a minority because of an advantage of access and power. A white billionaire from South Africa who recently lost a high-profile racial discrimination case may not be in the best position to offer counsel.”
Director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism responds to Elon Musk’s remarks about U.S. media
Daily Kos
Feb. 27, 2023
Since Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter, there’s been a surge of hateful rhetoric . In response to Musk saying the U.S. media is racist against white people, Brian Levin, a civil rights attorney and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, said, “Systemic racism requires not only widespread bigotry to be held within a group but also a structural component that allows discrimination and oppression to be imposed on a minority because of an advantage of access and power. A white billionaire from South Africa who recently lost a high-profile racial discrimination case may not be in the best position to offer counsel.”
Reading about a RELO-VUTION
Psychological Research
Pablo Gómez (psychology) cowrote an article about pseudowords that are created by transposing two letters of words, called “the transposed-letter similarity effect. In this work, we examined whether transposed-letter effects occur when words span more than one line (e.g., CHOLO- in one line and CATE in another line; note that the transposed letters L and C are in different lines). While this type of presentation is not the canonical format for reading in alphabetic languages, it is widely used in advertising, billboards, and street signs.”
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