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Wednesday 15 July 2020
Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students

By COLLIN BINKLEY but at least seven other
AP Education Writer federal suits had been filed
BOSTON (AP) — Facing by universities and states
eight federal lawsuits and opposing the rule.
opposition from hundreds Harvard and MIT argued
of universities, the Trump that immigration officials vi-
administration on Tuesday olated procedural rules by
rescinded a rule that would issuing the guidance with-
have required international out justification and with-
students to transfer or leave out allowing the public to
the country if their schools respond. They also argued
held classes entirely online that the policy contradict-
because of the pandemic. ed ICE's March 13 directive
The decision was an- telling schools that existing
nounced at the start of a limits on online education
hearing in a federal law- would be suspended "for
suit in Boston brought by the duration of the emer-
Harvard University and the gency."
Massachusetts Institute of The suit noted that Trump's
Technology. U.S. District national emergency dec-
Judge Allison Burroughs In this Aug. 13, 2019, file photo, pedestrians walk through the gates of Harvard Yard at Harvard laration has not been re-
University in Cambridge, Mass.
said federal immigration Associated Press scinded and that virus
authorities agreed to pull cases are spiking in some
the July 6 directive and "re- bling to reassess their plans or leave the country volun- The policy drew sharp back- regions.
turn to the status quo." for the fall in light of the tarily. lash from higher education Immigration officials, how-
A lawyer representing the policy. Immigration officials issued institutions, with more than ever, argued that they told
Department of Homeland Under the policy, interna- the policy last week, revers- 200 signing court briefs sup- colleges all along that any
Security and U.S. Immigra- tional students in the U.S. ing earlier guidance from porting the challenge by guidance prompted by the
tion and Customs Enforce- would have been forbid- March 13 telling colleges Harvard and MIT. Colleges pandemic was subject to
ment said only that the den from taking all their that limits around online said the policy would put change. They said the rule
judge's characterization courses online this fall. education would be sus- students' safety at risk and was consistent with existing
was correct. New visas would not have pended during the pan- hurt schools financially. law barring international
The announcement brings been issued to students at demic. University leaders Many schools rely on tuition students from taking class-
relief to thousands of for- schools planning to provide believed the rule was part from international students, es entirely online. Federal
eign students who had all classes online, which in- of President Donald Trump's and some stood to lose mil- officials said they were pro-
been at risk of being de- cludes Harvard. Students effort to pressure the na- lions of dollars in revenue if viding leniency by allowing
ported from the country, already in the U.S. would tion's schools and colleges the rule had taken hold. students to keep their visas
along with hundreds of uni- have faced deportation if to reopen this fall even as Harvard and MIT were the even if they study online
versities that were scram- they didn't transfer schools new virus cases rise. first to contest the policy, from abroad.q

Campaign brewing to get Hindu god Brahma off popular beer

zilian brewery now owned of a scantily clad woman phone interview. Hindus
by Anheuser-Busch InBev, to promote the beers. are a tiny minority in Brazil,
whose massive lineup of "Anheuser-Busch InBev where the Brahma brand
500 brands includes Bud- should not be in the busi- is "very important to the
weiser, Bud Light, Corona ness of religious appro- culture of the country," he
and Stella Artois. Beers sold priation, sacrilege and added. The name offends
under the Brahma name ridiculing entire communi- regardless of its origins, Zed
include a lager, a double ties," the coalition said in a said. "The stated history
malt, a wheat beer and a statement, calling on the behind the name does
chocolate stout. company to "prove that not reduce the pain of
"It is the right time to fix an it cares about communi- the Hindu devotees when
old wrong — the trivializ- ties by renaming its Brah- they see their creator god
ing of the faith of our Hin- ma beer."But Lucas Rossi, on alcohol cans," he said.
du brothers and sisters for head of communications Zed, who is based in Ne-
Brahma beer is displayed at a bar that's open for deliveries about 132 years," coalition for Anheuser-Busch InBev's vada and is the president
only amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday,
July 14, 2020. spokesperson Rajan Zed Latin America subsidiary, of the Universal Society
Associated Press told The Associated Press said Tuesday the beers of Hinduism, has cam-
on Tuesday. were named in tribute to paigned against what he
By WILLIAM J. KOLE includes representatives Lord Brahma, the god of Joseph Bramah — an Eng- considers the misuse of
Associated Press of the Christian, Jewish, creation in Hinduism, is a lishman who invented the Eastern religious imagery
An interfaith coalition is Buddhist, Hindu and Jain highly revered figure who draft pump valve — and for commercial purposes
pressing the world's larg- religions, is calling on Bel- should be worshiped in not for the Hindu deity. The for several years. In 2019,
est brewer to remove the gium-based brewing giant temples or home shrines, spelling was changed, he he extracted an apol-
name of a Hindu god from Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/ "not misused as a 'toasting said, to make the name ogy from a Virginia brew-
a popular beer that dates NV to rename its Brahma tool,'" Zed said. work better in the Portu- ery that brewed a beer
to the late 1800s — a dis- line, a favorite in Brazil. He said the coalition also guese language. named for another Hindu
pute the beermaker in- Brahma was first produced objects to what it calls "We deeply respect all re- deity, saying that associat-
sists is a case of mistaken in 1888 by Companhia "raunchy" marketing of the ligions, faiths and their his- ing Lord Hanuman with al-
identity. The group, which Cervejaria Brahma, a Bra- brand by using the image tories," Rossi said in a tele- cohol was disrespectful.q