October 30-November 12, 2021

SCU in the News is a compilation of media placements secured by UMC Media Relations, as well as other highlights featuring faculty, staff, or students.

Op-eds or Thought Leadership

Opinion articles written by Santa Clara University faculty or staff, or other articles prominently featuring Santa Clara thought leadership.

Bullying in High School

ABC7
Thomas Plante (Psychology). Allegations of violent and racist bullying at Gunn High School in Palo Alto.

Social Entrepreneurship and Resilience

Impact Entrepreneur
Brigit Helms (Miller). How climate change impacts people and poverty.

Supreme Court Hears Challenges to Texas Abortion Law

NPR - WBUR
Michelle Oberman (Law). The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in two separate challenges to Texas' restrictive abortion law, which bans the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy. Also Margaret Russell on KQED.

Facebook Dropping Facial Recognition System

NBC Bay Area
Don Heider (Markkula). Facebook announced it is dropping its facial recognition feature that helps tag people in photos.

Why Suits Against Netflix Could Shake Streaming

The Hollywood Reporter

Eric Goldman (Law). The mega-streamer is facing more defamation complaints than any major news outlet, stemming from projects like 'Making a Murderer' and 'When They See Us' — but is it a distributor, a publisher or something else entirely?

Wu, Pureval Mayoral Wins Mark Milestone for Asian Americans

The Meridian Star

James Lai (Ethnic Studies). Asian Americans will serve as mayor in Boston and Cincinnati for the first time in both cities’ histories, signaling political progress for a population that has struggled for almost two years with a rise in anti-Asian hate. Also on dozens of other outlets.

Cyberbullying and Bystander Intervention

Brookings Institution

Melissa Brown (Communication). In a new report, “Bystander intervention on social media: Examining cyberbullying and reactions to systemic racism,” researchers examine the cyberbullying phenomenon, especially its racial aspect, and the strategies onlookers use to intervene.

Public Employees, Private Speech

San Jose Spotlight
Michael Vargas (Law). The First Amendment guarantees the right of “free speech” to every American, however, that promise is often more secure for some than others.

College of Arts & Sciences

Families Look for More Affordable Mental Health Treatment Options

Newsy
Thomas Plante. A new report shows that one-third of Americans are so stressed about the pandemic they're having a hard time with basic decisions. Also on many of other outlets.

Experts See Progress, Problems in U.S. Catholic Church's Latest Sex Abuse Audit

Washington Times
Thomas Plante. According to analysts who have pored over the annual audit released this week, the U.S. Catholic Church has made some improvement in its response to its sex abuse scandal but still has a long way to go.

Indian Americans Urge Facebook to ‘stop facilitating India’s genocidal rhetoric against minorities’

Two Circles
Rohit Chopra (Communication). In a Congressional Briefing, experts discussed the way Hindu supremacists in India have thrived off Facebook and its related platforms, using social media to make anti-minority hatred mainstream. Also on The Siasat Daily.

The Growing Crusade Against Sex, Muslim Culture, and Lesbians in India’s Ads

Vice
Rohit Chopra. A jewellery campaign by Sabyasachi is the latest in a recent string of ad suppressions led by politicians in India’s ruling government.

Facebook’s Metaverse Shift Smacks of Desperation

Columbia Journalism Review

Erick Jose Ramirez (Philosophy). Erick Jose Ramirez, an associate professor of philosophy at Santa Clara University, writes about the false hope that technologies like virtual reality will help society deal with racism.

School of Engineering

New STEM Building Completed

KTSF Channel 26
Nam Ling (Computer Science and Engineering). It is not enough to have computer skills. We need to understand the impact of computers on society.

Jesuit School of Theology

Gomez, Painting Catholics as Victims, Goes After His Woke Oppressors

Religion News Service
Lisa Fullman (Moral Theology). Archbishop Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, attacked movements of ‘social justice,’ ‘wokeness,’ ‘identity politics,’ ‘intersectionality’ and ‘successor ideology’ as pseudo-religions. Also in National Catholic Reporter.

Online Fundraiser Supports LGBTQ Staff Fired From Catholic Parishes, Schools

National Catholic Reporter
Julie Hanlon Rubio (Christian Social Ethics). In September, Families with Dignity, a support organization based in Detroit, started Love Always Wins (LAW), a fundraising campaign to help support LGBTQ people and allies who have lost jobs in Catholic parishes or schools in the archdiocese.

School of Law

The Theranos Trial

KTVU-FOX2 News
Ellen Kreitzberg. Analysis of the ongoing Elizabeth Holmes trial. Also on KTVU-FOX2. Also on KPIX.

Rittenhouse Juror Dismissal Shows Risk of Bias in Big Cases

The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint

Margaret Russell. The juror dismissed from Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial apparently was trying to be funny when he cracked to a court security officer about a police officer’s shooting of Jacob Blake, the event that set off the protests where Rittenhouse shot three people, two fatally. Also found on the Meridian Star and dozens of other outlets.

The University of Florida Bars Professors From Testifying in a Voting Rights Case

NPR
Margaret Russell. Three University of Florida professors were denied permission from the school to testify in a major voting rights case against the state, documents filed in federal court show.

Judge Advances Claims Over Privacy of Decades-Old Yearbook Photos

Courthouse News Service
Eric Goldman. Is there an expectation of privacy attached to old yearbook photos? Turns out even federal judges are divided on the issue.

Anti-Vaxxers Sue Senator For Urging Amazon To Demote COVID-19 Book

MediaPost

Eric Goldman. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other vaccine critics have sued Senator Elizabeth Warren for allegedly violating the First Amendment by urging Amazon to stop promoting the book “The Truth About COVID-19.”

FCC Nominee's Record is at Odds with Biden Censorship Goals

Washington Examiner
Eric Goldman. President Joe Biden’s selection to lead the Federal Communications Commission, Jessica Rosenworcel, has a track record that suggests she is unlikely to help him overhaul a controversial law that gives social media platforms legal immunity for content moderation decisions.

Leavey School of Business

Is the Remote Work Revolution Here to Stay?

Mercury News

Jo-Ellen Pozner (Management).Silicon Valley workers want flexibility — and they just might get it. Also on USA Online News and five other sources.

Reddit's Latest Money-Making Obsession is an Obscure Fed Facility

Business Standard

Hersh Shefrin (Finance). A screenshot of this obscure but important facility's daily usage is religiously uploaded to a Reddit forum called Superstonk. Also on Bloomberg-Quint, Yahoo Finance and 5 other sources.

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Uber Patents Reveal Experiments with Predictive Algorithms to identify Risky Drivers

The Intercept
Brian Green. Surveilling drivers under the guise of safety is a common thread in Uber’s patents. Experts warn the systems described could reinforce existing inequalities.

The Space Show

Brian Green joined the program to discuss his new book "Space Ethics."

Nonprofit has 4 State Lawmakers on Payroll; Chicanos por la Causa Seeking COVID Funds

Arizona Republic
Joan Harrington. A powerful nonprofit's pitch to legislators for COVID-19 relief funds took a surprising turn when the group's top executive said he needed to disclose something: It had four members of the Arizona House of Representatives on its payroll.

Ethical Communications With Subramaniam Vincent

Communication Intelligence
Subramaniam Vincent. Look around and it might seem, at least at times, that ethical communication is in short supply and isn’t important enough to people, organizations and society.

Board That Oversees Constables Has Links to Landlords Group

U.S. News
John Pelissero. When renters are evicted, constables deliver the court orders — sought by landlords — that demand the tenants move out. But the board that trains and disciplines Arizona’s elected constables has close ties to the most powerful landlord group in the state. Also found on more than 40 different outlets.

Coast Superintendent Rents a House From the School Board Chairman. Is That a Conflict?

Sun Herald

John Pelissero. As chairman of the Jackson County school board, Troy Frisbie voted to hire Superintendent Dr. John Strycker and is responsible for overseeing his work. For the past eight months, Strycker has also been renting a property Frisbie owns in Ocean Springs.

Train Lines: How Two Press Democrat Owners Finessed a Petaluma Real Estate Deal

North Bay Bohemian

John Pelissero. Last week, we reported that two owners of the Press Democrat, Darius Anderson and Doug Bosco, helped craft a state-funded bailout deal benefiting Bosco’s privately owned Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company while Anderson’s Platinum Advisors was a contract lobbyist for SMART from 2015 to 2020.