Posted by Cassandra Huang Welcome back, folks! Hope everyone had a restful or a productive spring break! If you are a follower of our ABSMCC blog, you must still remember our last post before spring break: “Darkest day” in New Zealand: Mass shooting on Friday.” The shooting in New Zealand was ten days ago, but…

Posted by James Zhang At least 49 people were killed and plenty was injured on Friday at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand during a well-planned racist attack carried out by a 28-year-old Australian white man. Most victims of this tragic accident were believed as refugees or immigrants. Here are what people…

Posted by Brandy Mmbaga Do you remember that one thing? The ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter that equals 3.14159265358979323846264…. but we call it 3.14 or Pi? Yeah, well, today is 3.14 and also what we refer to as Pi Day! Pi Day is celebrated annually on March 14th as the numeric format…

Posted by Ying Xiong On March 10, 2019, an Ethiopian Airline Flight 302 with 159 people was crashed near Bishoftu, Ethiopia. The victims in the incident were from 35 nations. The majority of them came from Kenya. Eight victims came from the U.S. On March 13, the U.S. decided to ground Boeing 737 Max 8…

Posted by Cassandra Huang Today may be a blue Monday for many of us because we need to get up one hour earlier for the first Monday after the daylight saving time. If you are panic for the disappearing hour, we are glad to tell you that today is the National Napping Day, and you…

Posted by James Zhang March 6, Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, announced in his blog post that his company Facebook would plan to embrace a “privacy-focused” vision that would guarantee the less disclosure of online users’ private information and encourage encrypted online conversation among different user groups. Concerning Mark’s plan, what the…

Posted by Cassandra Huang Last Thursday, students and faculty received an email from Interim Chancellor and Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Engagement about a racism incident. It was a photo on Snapchat that included black faces and a racist caption. Being an educated student at UT, we all know that our campus is zero tolerance…

Posted by Cassandra Huang Last Saturday was an exciting day for UT’s basketball fans! Maybe you were stuck in the traffic got on campus that afternoon, but it was worthy. The Vol Hoops beat Kentucky by a score of 71-42 and got back to the Top 5 in SEC. On March 2nd, up to 16,240…

Posted by James Zhang As the largest private employer that accommodates a large workforce for people with disabilities, Walmart has started to eliminate greeter position at 1,000 of its locations across the nation. Walmart has announced that the greeter position will be replaced by “custom host.” Since people with physical disabilities usually fill the greeter…

Posted by Brandon Boatwright The United Methodist Church (UMC) on Tuesday voted to uphold language in its discipline that restricts LGBT inclusion in the church. As a global organization, delegates from around the world gathered in St. Louis to vote on a way forward for the church which has long struggled over the issue of…