ICE On Your Campus Questions to Ask Your Administration 1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities? 2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents? 3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant? 4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant. 5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance? 6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE? What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now 1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact. 2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night. 3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan 4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney. Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators: 1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so. 2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …

From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.

Thanks!

Every day is a win. Congratulations!

I wish my dentist took weekend urgent visits. I woke up with a toothache and swollen gum and classes start tomorrow. I'm managing ok but if it gets worse....

Looking for publications about the authenticity of the Getty kouros if anyone has recommendations. TIA.

I've lived in wildfire country for over 20 years (arizona) but watching the fire encroach on LA is horrific.

Truth. And a lot of folx are contigent as well so it's an impossible expense.

It's horrifying. Can't believe it's 2025.

all consuming anxiety is just so much fun. So many things to be anxious about.

Wow! That looks amazing.

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Squishmallows at night if you haven't tried those.

An orange wall provides the backdrop for a daring mouse. He is suspended by a string over a diamond brooch. He's wearing a black mask to protect his identity. The display holds several historic items about jewelry designer Arnold Shiffman, who won an award in 1955 for a diamond brooch called Queen of Hearts. The brooch depicts a woman's head. Her shoulder length hair and skin are comprised of diamonds. Her crown is silver with diamond inset on the crown points. Her mouth is open and she looks angry. Perhaps she is yelling about the thief!

Close up of the mouse. His black mask and cowl appear to be crocheted. He is poised just above a red laser light that shines on the wall behind him. Will he be able to avoid that alarm trigger and abscond with the goods?

Youngest works in a history museum. Every December, they hide 60-80 mice around the displays. Patrons try to find them. No one has ever found all of them.
This a jewel thief mouse in mid-heist. He's suspended over a diamond brooch.

I used a cane this trip in museums and it was a game changer. I don't usually need mobility aids for my EDS but it made a huge difference in what and for how long I could do. If you are on the fence about a mobility aid, you might be surprised when you try one out.

They are now playing whoop there it is lol. Better than elevator muzak I suppose.

You know you are middle-aged when the club hits of your early adult years are playing at the airport. Hello, that's what we call music circa 1998 lol.

I'm about to brave JFK this afternoon.... save travels!

Congratulations!

I would also accept this with gratitude, especially since where I live, Arizona, doesn't do daylight savings time. It's incredibly anxiety inducing to schedule anything with folx in different zones.

That's so exciting!

Mine is a variation of this.

Very much so. I've added something to my syllabus now. I can't regrade 200+ plus papers multiple times over the semester.

Congratulations!

I find it to be such a strange holiday but for those that celebrate....

Well I whittled down my inbox from 140 to 38 emails. I think I deserve a cookie or something. Only took all day.

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I'm so sorry. That's hellish.

Oooh fabulous! the class is on art crime more broadly so we have a few weeks on fakes and forgeries but these can be art, material culture, documents, etc. Art objects would be ideal but I'm flexible. I can send you an email with more info too.

Museum folx: does your museum have any fakes or forgeries in the collection that you would love to talk about? I'm looking for few folx to Zoom with my class about fakes and forgeries in early to middle February. I can offer a modest honorarium so if you are interested, please let me know!

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