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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear Department of Art,</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Department of Art is currently investigating and responding to a “Zoombombing” incident that occurred last night during our online visiting artist
talk by Dawit Petros at which time intruders used racial slurs, blasted music, and shared other objectionable material. Our CFA faculty hosts displayed the utmost professionalism, responding by ending the call promptly and sending out a new meeting link as
soon as possible. The talk continued successfully, with the majority of participants re-joining. While the attacker’s success in interrupting our session may have involved a great deal of luck on their part, we must ensure that we are doing all we can to conduct
our Zoom sessions in such a way that will prevent this from happening again.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">We want to acknowledge
both the professionalism of faculty in dealing with the situation, and the absolute generosity of Dawit Petros in not only continuing the lecture, but also his refusal to allow the heckler's behavior to define the night. An incident like this highlights the
importance of confronting the enduring legacies of colonial, misogynistic, and imperialist racisms.</span></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is important that as a department, we continue to affirm our values of respect, civility, diversity, and inclusion. As such,</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14pt;color:black !important"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all
Departmental Zoom events will utilize the</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14pt;color:red !important"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><a href="https://its.fsu.edu/article/tips-secure-zoom-meetings" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">tips
to secure Zoom meetings</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in
order to increase the number of virtual safeguards available to prevent these offensive confrontations from occurring again.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14pt;color:black !important"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for your assistance and commitment to making changes that promote the well-being of all our students, faculty, staff, and visitors.</span></p>
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<span class="x_marka3afwc2x5" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;color:black">Lilian</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;color:black"> Garcia-Roig</span><span style="margin:0px"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;color:black">Professor and <span class="x_markrtwl6hh0r" style="margin:0px">Chair</span></span><span style="margin:0px"></span></p>
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