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any other university execs at risk in the future?
University of Missouri president resigns over racial turmoil
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-missouri-campus-racism-20151109-story.html
I'm sure he left with very comfortable multi-$M parachute. sniff sniff
any other university execs at risk in the future?
much respect to the student athletes for putting the pressure on the university. this is how the clippers should have handled their protest but they went with inside out jerseys instead. the amount of white tears from this has been hilarious.
Read University of Missouri Protesters' List of Impressive Demands That Led to President's Resignation
We demand that the University of Missouri System President, Tim Wolfe, writes a handwritten apology to the Concerned Student 1-*9-*5-0 demonstrators and holds a press conference in the Mizzou Student Center reading the letter. In the letter and at the press conference, Tim Wolfe must acknowledge his white male privilege, recognize that systems of oppression exist, and provide a verbal commitment to fulfilling Concerned Student 1-9-5-*0 demands. We want Tim Wolfe to admit to his gross negligence, allowing his driver to hit one of the demonstrators, consenting to the physical violence of bystanders, and lastly refusing to intervene when Columbia Police Department used excessive force with demonstrators.
II. We demand the immediate removal of Tim Wolfe as UM system president. After his removal a new amendment to UM system policies must be established to have all future UM system president and Chancellor positions be selected by a collective of students, staff, and faculty of diverse backgrounds.
III. We demand that the University of Missouri meets the Legion of Black Collegians' demands that were presented in 1969 for the betterment of the black community.
IV. We demand that the University of Missouri creates and enforces comprehensive racial awareness and inclusion curriculum throughout all campus departments and units, mandatory for all students, faculty, staff, and administration. This curriculum must be vetted, maintained, and overseen by a board comprised of students, staff, and faculty of color.
V. We demand that by the academic year 2017-2018, the University of Missouri increases the percentage of black faculty and staff campus-wide to 10%.
VI. We demand that the University of Missouri composes a strategic 10 year plan by May 1, 2016 that will increase retention rates for marginalized students, sustain diversity curriculum and training, and promote a more safe and inclusive campus.
VII. We demand that the University of Missouri increases funding and resources for the University of Missouri Counseling Center for the purpose of hiring additional mental health professionals -- particularly those of color, boosting mental health outreach and programming across campus, increasing campus-*wide awareness and visibility of the counseling center, and reducing lengthy wait times for prospective clients.
VIII. We demand that the University of Missouri increases funding, resources, and personnel for the social justices centers on campus for the purpose of hiring additional professionals, particularly those of color, boosting outreach and programming across campus, and increasing campus-*wide awareness and visibility.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...led-presidents
Students have highlighted a series of disturbing racist incidents on campus, including being called racial epithets, and accused Wolfe of not acting decisively to address race issues.
What "decisive" action was he supposed to take? Create more "safe spaces" on campus?
it's a ing slave state, so not even lip service, which he failed to provide, would make much difference.
From link in OP
"The protests at the university began early in the fall semester after Missouri's student government president, who is black, said he was called a racial slur by the occupant of a passing pickup truck while walking on campus. Members of the Legion of Black Collegians, the leading voice for African Americans on campus, said racial slurs were directed at them by an unidentified person walking by. And a swastika drawn in feces was found recently in a dormitory bathroom."
This is what all this is about? Hmmm.
Well, they got a guy to resign, so... success?
him.
So, all this was over some alleged random person in a truck calling a student a nig and a swastika made of doodoo?
Do you really think there are no other racist aspects, events, etc in this slave state experienced by black students everywhere?
google "straw camel's back"
Mizzou was the picture of multiracial harmony before a truck driver used the N-word, now everybody is collectively lying about the experience of being a black student at Missouri for the attention. #OccamsRazor
what state is Ferguson in?
how many of these blacks students have seen their families, friends, neighbors, neighborhoods, ed over by police, harassed, ticketed for nothing, milked dry the courts and collection agencies, etc, etc, etc.
Noooooooo Darrin. Do ya Googles.
Yuck at the racist whitey who made that doo doo swastika. They had to be really committed to their hatred to touch all that .
I read what OP posted
“PC” is another right-wing lie: Missouri proves reactionary forces really are waging war against college kids
As this timeline from the Maneater, the student newspaper at the University of Missouri shows, the revolt against Wolfe didn’t come out of nowhere. The accusations that Wolfe was indifferent to a handful of racist incidents on campus are only the tip of the iceberg. It appears that, for months now, the campus has been the staging ground for all manner of conservative attacks on the wellbeing of young people not just on campus, but across the state.
Over the summer, the school tried to take away health insurance subsidies for graduate students, blaming Obamacare. That didn’t last long, but it certainly put students on notice that their basic access to health care was under threat by conservative forces. Then the university got caught up in the state’s heightened anti-choice politics, after state legislators strong-armed the school into forcing a doctor who worked at the school to quit providing abortions at a local Planned Parenthood. The school also canceled contracts with Planned Parenthood that allowed medical and nursing students to gain hours there, in response to the hoax videos that came out over the summer falsely accusing Planned Parenthood of selling body parts. Theyeventually came to their senses and renewed the contracts, but, as with the graduate student health program, the message was sent: The school was listening to and willing to interfere with the health care and educational access the students had, to pander to the whims of a bunch of delusional culture warriors.
While all this is happening, black students on campus are reporting a series of racist incidents. Campus protests were invigorated by the protests against police brutality in nearby Ferguson, but it also appears that all this tumult is invigorating racists, too, who are getting increasingly confrontational and provocative. While many news reports suggest that the main complaint against Wolfe was that he was insufficiently responsive to student concerns over this, it was actually much worse: Students report that a car driving Wolfe actually revved up the engine in the face of studentswho were blocking him in an anti-racism protest, and that one student was bumped by the car. It was likely unintentional, but still the result of treating the very real concerns of students at the center of this culture war whirlwind as if they are nothing but an annoyance.
Any one of these incidents, in isolation, doesn’t seem like a big deal, but taken together, it becomes easier to see why so many students feel under attack. Nor is this just about the University of Missouri.
Young people in general have very real reasons to feel under attack in this country, and the show at Missouri is just a boiling over of pressures being felt from coast to coast by young people.
The culture war is usually discussed in this country in terms of religion, gender, or race, but it’s very rarely discussed in terms of age. But young people are definitely feeling the pain. Police violence is disproportionately dished out on young people of color. The attacks on Planned Parenthood are mostly about depriving teens and women in their early twenties access to contraception and STI services—services that women a little older usually can get through other means. Sexual assault on campus is endemic, but Republicans have responded by trying to make it harder for young women to get protection from their assailants.
Even the war over Obamacare has a generational aspect to it. Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 are the most likely to be uninsured and therefore have the most to gain under the Medicaid expansion and federal subsidies available through Obamacare. Surprise surprise, these happen to be the aspects of the law getting attacked the most by conservatives. That, and contraception coverage, which again is needed the most by young women who are having sex but may struggle to pay full price for their preferred contraception methods.
Colleges are becoming a staging ground for this hostility towards young people, where students have to face soaring tuition rates and unmanageable levels of student debt, with elders too busy making fun of “trigger warnings” to worry about the economic destruction being dished out to young adults. Wolfe himself was hired not from the world of academia but from the business world, brought on for his skills at cutting costs more than his commitment to quality education. His hire was a demonstration that the state of Missouri prioritizes slashing education budgets to fund tax cuts over investing in young people’s futures.
So yes, young people sometimes do silly or nonsensical things in the name of social justice. But if young people in this country feel that they are under attack from reactionary forces, it’s because they are.
They struggle to get health care, they pay too much for education, they face dismal job prospects in the real world and far too many of them, particularly young people of color, have to live in fear of police violence. If their reactions are sometimes imperfect, their heightened emotions in this environment are entirely understandable.
As Wolfe’s resignation shows, the culture wars on campus are about something much deeper than a few scuffles over Halloween costumes or trigger warnings. While it’s always fun to make fun of overwrought student leftists who go too far, it’s time to start paying some real attention to the serious problems that young people are really facing, in Missouri and in the rest of the country.
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/09/pc_i..._college_kids/
Lol, re s
Racial hysteria at Yale. Lol, future leaders of America.
Warning: NSFW language and high-pitched screeching from SJW
EDIT: This rant was about Halloween costumes
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...t-yale/414810/
Oh. My. ing. Gawd. Just listen to these kids. SMH
Didn't anyone tell these kids that college is for date rape and alcohol poisoning, not for caring about ?
Darrin in deflect mode
I'd be extremely disappointed if either of my kids ever becomes one of these snap-clapping zombies.
Someone in a truck said something that offended me. I don't feel safe.
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