There are 19 eyes and 12 days the bill is finally passed. Senate Bill 17, which took effect in January of this year, bans diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at public Texas colleges and universities. As a result, DEI organizations and clubs are being shut down. We have so many people of color and we have so many first generation students and to just kind of cancel all the safe spaces and that's really not okay. In an email sent Tuesday from University of Texas at Austin president J. Hartzel, he says the university has laid off employees who used to work in DEI programs. The American Association of University professors say about 60 people were affected by these layoffs and were ordered to shut down all DEI programs by the end of May. It's not just something that impacts current students. It's going to impact a lot of people in the future and they're like firing people and like people losing their jobs. State Senator Brandon Crayton co-authored Senate Bill 17, which passed last year. He sent a letter to Texas University leaders last week warning they could lose millions of dollars in state funding if they didn't comply with the law. After SB 17 passed, we spoke with DEI critic Sherry Sylvester with the Texas Public Policy Foundation. She says these initiatives are discriminatory to non-minority groups and promote critical race theory. People think that this is a minority recruitment program. It's not our universities and our state agencies should look like Texas. Some UT students like Riva ProJudy says it's a step in the wrong direction. Like it feels like we're living back in like 1950s Texas. Like that's not where we want to be.