NYU to Remove Sackler Name Following Pressure From Students and Artist-Activists

Good morning. ☁️ Today, we report on the growing movement for a photographer's bill of rights, we loo

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Good morning. ☁️ Today, we report on the growing movement for a photographer’s bill of rights, we look at an art project that apologized to the Siksika Nation, and we look at how academics and archeologists benefit from colonialist cosplay.– Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

NYU to Remove Sackler Name

In July 2018, P.A.I.N. joined Harvard and NYU medical students to protest the Sackler name at Harvard Art Museums (photo by Tamara Rodriguez)

Following years of pressure from students and the drug advocacy group P.A.I.N., New York University’s Langone Medical Center will remove the Sackler name from its Graduate Biomedical Institute.An NYU spokesperson told us:“Given the Sackler family’s association with Purdue Pharma and its role in encouraging opioid overuse, we view continuing to use the Sackler name as inconsistent with our institution’s values and incompatible with our mission, which is dedicated to patient care, education, and research to improve human health.”

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