“Some of the research shows that contact with another race kind of reduces that bias.” “There’s a lot of longstanding research on facial recognition that tells us we’re more likely to recognize people of our own race, and categorize people of other races,” said Natasha Warikoo, a sociology professor at Tufts University. Courtesy Dong familyĭong’s parents, Junfang Shen and Mingsheng Dong, who are from China’s Henan province, said that the university had “failed” their daughter. The letter was among the documents released this week. “Although the university made extensive efforts to support and ensure the safety of Dong and provide assistance to Wang, our self-evaluation revealed shortcomings,” Randall said.Īdministrators also chastised housing staff in a letter to them in mid-March for not elevating Dong’s case to a “welfare” matter, a higher classification of concern. They also provide evidence of “insufficient and unprofessional internal communication,” University President Taylor Randall said, as well as “processes, procedures and trainings in housing that needed to be clarified and improved.” The documents, which were made public after The Salt Lake City Tribune pushed for public records on the case to be released, describe how former campus-housing employees delayed notifying the university’s police department about reports of intimate partner violence. “I felt so angry,” McGartland told the Daily Utah Chronicle. The university added in the timeline that there is currently “no process or regulation requiring local police departments to notify colleges or universities of arrests or protective orders involving students.”īailey McGartland, Dong’s roommate who is also a student at the school, told the campus newspaper she helped Dong file reports of domestic violence and requests for wellness checks. She was issued a temporary protective order by police after the incident. 14, Dong reported Wang’s suicidal ideations to housing staff and made them aware that her boyfriend had been arrested by police two days earlier after an altercation with her, the timeline notes.
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8, according to court documents. “Once that determination is made, we are prepared to move forward to trial and to vigorously defend against the claims made against him to a jury of his peers,” Alamilla said, adding in part that “there are mental health issues concerning everyone involved in this case that will need to be addressed prior to trial.”įor weeks before Dong’s death, the university knew she was in a dangerous intimate partner violence situation, according to a timeline released by the university. He will face a competency hearing on Aug. Alamilla, entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf. Wang has been charged with murder and the attorney representing him, Joseph C.
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