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Streck-Fu

11-09-2015, 11:20

This reads like some crazy novel.

From the September election of Student Body President Payton Head, who posted a Facebook rant about every imaginable slight, to social media generated protests to the university president resigning in Nov.

They made short work of this effort...

This is the screed that started it all....

WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE: I just want to say how extremely hurt and disappointed I am. Last night as I walking through campus, some guys riding on the back of a pickup truck decided that it would be okay to continuously scream N***r at me. I really just want to know why my simple existence is such a threat to society. For those of you who wonder why I’m always talking about the importance of inclusion and respect, it’s because I’ve experienced moments like this multiple times at THIS university, making me not feel included here. Many of you are so privileged that you’ll never know what it feels like to be a hijab-wearing Muslim woman and be called a terrorist or a towel head. You don’t have to think about being transgender and worrying about finding a restroom where you can go and not be targeted for violence because you don’t fit into the gender binary. You’ll never know what it feels like to see Memorial Union every day and enter the side like a second class citizen because after 90 years, there’s still no accessible way to enter the tower. You’ve never been spit on walking down 9th street or mis-gendered at Pizza Tree because they called out your birth name. You’ve never had to experience people throwing drinks on you and yelling FAGGOT at you from the patio at Big 12 as you walk past on the street holding hands with your partner. You might never had to think twice about what you’re wearing walking around campus at night so that someone won’t think it’s okay to take ownership of your body because your outfit was “asking for it.” If your simple existence is not a political statement I’m really going to need for you to check your privilege. These are some of my experiences and the experiences of the ones closest to me. This is what I’m fighting against every day in boardrooms, conferences, meetings, classrooms, the Capitol, and in my daily life. This is my reality. Is it weird that I think that I have the right to feel safe here too? If you see violence like this and don’t say anything, you, yes YOU, are a part of the problem. It’s the reason why It’s On Us, Black Lives Matter, Trans Rights are Human Rights, and love is ****ing love. If you want to fight for social change at Mizzou there are so many different outlets. Apply to be a Diversity Peer Educator, stop by any of our wonderful centers of social justice. Educate yourselves and others. Hold your family, friends, fraternity brothers and sorority sisters accountable. And if this post made you feel uncomfortable, GOOD! That means I’m doing my job. It’s time to wake up Mizzou.

Your N****r/Faggot Missouri Students Association President,

Payton Head

This seems almost too effective to not have outside coordination/guidance.

Guy

11-09-2015, 11:40

Some of these folks better stay in the U.S.A.!

Travel over to Africa and the Middle East and experience some
"real" racist name calling.....:eek::munchin

Streck-Fu

11-09-2015, 11:52

Only here can a gay black man be elected to student body president and homecoming king and still successfully claim a hostile enough environment to fabricate a protest.

The demands of the protest group:

I. 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.

Guy

11-09-2015, 11:59

Only here can a gay black man be elected to student body president and homecoming king and still successfully claim a hostile enough environment to fabricate a protest. You beat me to it!

cbtengr

11-09-2015, 12:31

ddoering

11-09-2015, 12:46

He should have done a hand-written note telling them all to fuck off and that they are expelled.

blacksmoke

11-09-2015, 13:04

OK? Why is this wrong? I can't possibly see walking around being called the N word and being screamed at threatening...Or that there is real racism in Missouri...:rolleyes:

PedOncoDoc

11-09-2015, 13:17

OK? Why is this wrong? I can't possibly see walking around being called the N word and being screamed at threatening...Or that there is real racism in Missouri...:rolleyes:

I think the issue is with the demands that the president resign over the behavior of the students, along with the demands that the president acknowledge his white privilege and personally take responsibility for perceived institutional discrimination.

There is also concern about the precedent that a vocal minority can oust the administration of a state university and whether this is the best course of action to improve things.

What happens if another heterosexual cis-gendered white male is selected to replace the resigning president?

Streck-Fu

11-09-2015, 13:33

Delete.

blacksmoke

11-09-2015, 13:59

This list of demands is like Trump's campaign promises. I think what all these people involved really want is to not be treated like crap. Yeah, acknowledge your white privilege :rolleyes: because I was treated bad. To ask for the resignation of the head of an entity where bad things occur, and seem to keep occurring, I don't see it as a mutiny by a small minority.

Old Dog New Trick

11-09-2015, 14:09

Where does one begin..?

I guess I'm stereotypically privileged because I had no desire to be a foaming at the mouth, flaming, cross-dressing, bi-sexual, gender-confused, race and culturally challenged, anti-establishment person growing up in America, or anywhere else.

Confused? I'm not the one who's confused. They 'had' a name for this in the DSM before they changed it, and dating back to at least Sigmond Freud, and Carl Jung. They'd have enrolled this person where he, no; she, no; it belongs. An institution for special snowflakes. :rolleyes:

What's this poor poor person to do when "it" finishes school and assimilates into the real world? (Oh, I know "Reality TV")

Streck-Fu

11-09-2015, 14:14

To ask for the resignation of the head of an entity where bad things occur, and seem to keep occurring, I don't see it as a mutiny by a small minority.

Could you provide examples of those bad things that keep happening at Mizzou?

I see the Mizzou population diversity and have to wonder? How much racism in present in a university with 8% blacks yet a gay black man gets elected to student body president a homecoming king.....

Guy

11-09-2015, 14:17

Peregrino

11-09-2015, 14:37

If you think blacks are treated like crap here in the United States?

GO OVER TO THE MIDDLE EAST and AFRICA....:munchin

Sorry Guy - that doesn't count because in Africa they're doing it to themselves and in the ME, it's only been since the 60's that they quit (officially) selling them. Let's not forget the pervasive thuggery blacks here in the US inflict on their own communities. It's only oppression when whitey does it.

Some fascinating reading: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/219517/saudi-arabia-middle-easts-real-apartheid-state-daniel-greenfield

blacksmoke

11-09-2015, 15:12

Could you provide examples of those bad things that keep happening at Mizzou?

I see the Mizzou population diversity and have to wonder? How much racism in present in a university with 8% blacks yet a gay black man gets elected to student body president a homecoming king.....

Well there's these anecdotes:" In October, a person used feces to draw a swastika on a wall in one of the residence halls, and in the spring, there was a "similar use of anti-Semitic language and symbolism" at another residence hall, according to Residence Halls Association president Billy Donley, who said in a letter he was upset that most students were unaware of the incident.

In another recent incident, a group of African-American students complained that a school safety officer didn't aggressively pursue an apparently drunken white student who disrupted their gathering using a racial slur."

And I imagine if the most popular guys on any campus are willing to not play a game, risk their scholarships etc, and their coach is in on it there is likely a large problem. I doubt the football team is siding with the Chelsea Manning of Mizzou...

blue02hd

11-09-2015, 15:35

I remember not too long ago some white supremacist racist had drawn swastikas on the doors in the 7th SFG barracks here on Bragg. I'm sure there are others here that remember all the media attention, requisite invasion of prominent black leaders screaming inequality, and the general suck that rolled downhill from the Chain of Command. Damn white oppressors! Made national media in a heartbeat.

I can barely remember the news reporting that the one responsible for the racist assault was a support soldier, cook I believe, and black. I cannot remember what punishment was handed down, it was minimal though.

Maybe that's why 7th SFG was kicked off Fort Bragg years later?! Hmmmm,,,,

And so it goes,,,

blue02hd

11-09-2015, 15:50

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article43827399.html

Seems there is more to this than just crappy swastikas (pun intended), disgruntled grad students and activist football players with a 4-5 record.

Or perhaps it's just coincidence?

Badger52

11-09-2015, 16:25

He should have done a hand-written note telling them all to fuck off and that they are expelled.I wish you'd quit parsing your words so carefully.
:cool:

Pete

11-09-2015, 16:35

Paslode

11-09-2015, 18:24

OK? Why is this wrong? I can't possibly see walking around being called the N word and being screamed at threatening...Or that there is real racism in Missouri...:rolleyes:

As I understand it this person complained about being called a N****R by persons off campus grounds which was out of the jurisdiction of the head honcho.

The longer they keep this up the sooner the liberal educators find themselves jobless.

ddoering

11-09-2015, 19:57

I wish you'd quit parsing your words so carefully.
:cool:

I'm so tired of everyone taking offense to everything. I also get tired of the race/sex card being played over and over again. If the incidents really happened (which I personally doubt) then man up and do something about it at the time. Kick some ass. Confront the shitheads. Grow some fucking balls.

But no, let's protest, make stupid demands etc...

The country is going to hell in a hand cart and the wierdos are pumping the handle.

I can't wait till the shooting starts.

Javadrinker

11-09-2015, 20:32

Sorry Guy - that doesn't count because in Africa they're doing it to themselves and in the ME, it's only been since the 60's that they quit (officially) selling them. Let's not forget the pervasive thuggery blacks here in the US inflict on their own communities. It's only oppression when whitey does it.

Some fascinating reading: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/219517/saudi-arabia-middle-easts-real-apartheid-state-daniel-greenfield

never mind, I re-read and saw the (officially) ;)

bailaviborita

11-10-2015, 04:41

So, I wonder if this is a more accurate timeline of events:

- Ferguson
- Black Lives Matter on UofM campus doesn't get attention
- Social justice group comes up with plan. They want what they've always wanted: mandatory reeducation to force everyone to support social justice and the LGBTQR political agenda and racial hiring quotas
- Student body president invents an incident, posts rant on FB
- nothing really happens until they pressure football players to join protest. School then would have agreed to sacrifice the president on a cross if that would have avoided a football forfeit...

Guy

11-10-2015, 05:18

So, I wonder if this is a more accurate timeline of events:

- Ferguson
- Black Lives Matter on UofM campus doesn't get attention
- Social justice group comes up with plan. They want what they've always wanted: mandatory re-education to force everyone to support social justice and the LGBTQR political agenda and racial hiring quotas
- Student body president invents an incident, posts rant on FB
- nothing really happens until they pressure football players to join protest. School then would have agreed to sacrifice the president on a cross if that would have avoided a football forfeit...Then Missouri protesters try to block student reporter from taking photos...:confused: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRlRAyulN4o)

Guy

11-10-2015, 05:27

Sorry Guy - that doesn't count because in Africa they're doing it to themselves and in the ME, it's only been since the 60's that they quit (officially) selling them. Let's not forget the pervasive thuggery blacks here in the US inflict on their own communities. It's only oppression when whitey does it.My parents use too say that all the time!

Some fascinating reading: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/219517/saudi-arabia-middle-easts-real-apartheid-state-daniel-greenfieldI've seen it with my own eyes!

Dusty

11-10-2015, 06:12

ACORN=OWS=BLM

Dem political operatives.

It ain't about race. Carson's leadin' for the "racist" party, and he's blacker'n Obama.

Streck-Fu

11-10-2015, 06:54

ACORN=OWS=BLM

Dem political operatives.

It ain't about race. Carson's leadin' for the "racist" party, and he's blacker'n Obama.

According to the Congressional Black Caucus, The Congressional White Caucus was not available for comment, Ben Carson is an "Oreo; Black on outside and white on the inside."

1:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IgfkP69AC0

greyhound

11-10-2015, 10:43

Gents: All this none scene is all a crafty fabricated method of divide and conquer.
Do not let yourselves be divided by well crafted PROGAGANDA.
All PROPAGANDA is developed with some truth to it mixed in with a lot of bullshit.
For the most of you who know how PROPAGANDA is developed you probably can see through the PSYOP bull shit.

Respect one another but do not be persuaded to take sides because you do not know who are the crafters of this CRAP and their true ideologies.

Last but not least: I do not believe that you are the TARGET AUDIENCE of this type of dissemination.:D

blue02hd

11-10-2015, 10:53

Hand

11-10-2015, 11:02

According to the Congressional Black Caucus, The Congressional White Caucus was not available for comment, Ben Carson is an "Oreo; Black on outside and white on the inside."

1:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IgfkP69AC0

Obama has yet to be accepted as black by the black community, UNLESS a non-black person is criticizing him.

Carson is not black either. I guess we will never have a black president.

There is not too much excitement in the black community for the 2016 presidential campaign. This time around, the Democrats have given blacks a choice between an old white woman and an old white man. Boring. Or they can choose the intelligent, highly successful black neurosurgeon running as a Republican. In fact, Dr. Ben Carson's life story better aligns with black Americans than does President Obama's. Dr. Carson and his brother were raised in the ghettos of Detroit by an illiterate single mother.

During his speech at the 61st Annual National Prayer Breakfast, Dr. Carson spoke about how his mother used to pretend to grade his and his brother's homework. Although she could not read, she would mark all over their assignments and make them redo them. Because of his mother's strong discipline, he and his brother became very successful (a neurosurgeon and an engineer). You would think that all black Americans would be excited about a poor black kid pulling himself up through hard work and discipline. What an amazing, inspiring example for black children.

However, instead of being excited about Dr. Carson's inspiring life story, the Democratic Party, including black Democrat intellectuals, are doing their best to destroy him. The last thing Democrats want is a black successful Republican who pulled himself up from poverty through hard work to make it to the White House. A real-life shining example would destroy the liberal message of government dependency, white privilege, institutional racism, and all the other lies and excuses that they have been telling blacks.

Discussing Dr. Carson on CNN, host Poppy Harlow had the following exchange with liberal CNN political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and right-leaning guest Ben Ferguson:

POPPY HARLOW: I want to get some time in here for you both to weigh in on something I read this morning, and our team talked about it was really fascinating. It's from a column, an opinion column in the Washington Post this morning by Janell Ross. She writes, in part: "Carson and his team have to protect and vigorously defend the once-violent-and-poor, now delivered-and-rich story -- hard. "...Carson's up-from-nothing, saved-by-Jesus-and-personal-effort story works, primarily with white Republican voters. "...for some it affirms the conscious or unconscious connections (stereotypes) they draw between blackness, poverty and violence. "For others, it demonstrates that Jesus saves. And for others still, it is a narrative that says other, potentially costly social solutions to poverty and violence are not necessary." That struck me. Ben, your thoughts?

HARLOW: Marc, is this key to what she says in this column, "white Republican voter"?

MARC LAMONT HILL, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Absolutely, absolutely, I mean, Ben Carson -- the greatest lie in American history is the myth of the self-made person. Nobody makes themselves. We're all shaped by communities, by people who struggled and sacrificed for us, by governments that offer safety nets. And what Ben Carson is able to do essentially is reject all that stuff and say that I was saved-

BEN FERGUSON, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: The government didn't make me, though, Marc.

HILL: Let me finish my point, Ben. I didn't interrupt you. Ben Carson is able to say -- we're talking about Ben Carson -- Ben Carson is able to say, "I was saved by Jesus and hard work." That allows him to reject a safety net. That allows him to push back against the expansion of a welfare state. That allows him to resist tax cuts for the middle class and poor and tax hikes for the wealthy. It allows him to create an entire narrative where people say, "Hey, wait a minute, why are you doing this?" Ben Carson can say, "Hey, because I did it myself," and it makes white voters feel comfortable to say that, "Look, this black guy himself is telling me poor people... –

HARLOW: To be clear here, guys, I got to wrap it up, but to be clear here, there is no disputing that he grew up poor in Detroit-

HILL: Absolutely.

HARLOW: -and struggled and made an incredible accomplishment becoming the neurosurgeon that he is.

The Democratic Party cannot win without the black vote. They need for blacks to think that whitey is holding them back and that only the government can take care of them. That is why, in my humble opinion, a black Republican will never make to the White House.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/11/black_intellectual_admits_why_liberals_fear_ben_ca rson.html#ixzz3r6lXZ14X
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Streck-Fu

11-10-2015, 11:15

These protesters are idiots....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRlRAyulN4o

NurseTim

11-10-2015, 12:47

the slippery slopped is greased with the drool of the window licking morons that support leftists/redcoats.

cbtengr

11-10-2015, 13:16

Obama has yet to be accepted as black by the black community, UNLESS a non-black person is criticizing him.

Carson is not black either. I guess we will never have a black president.

You have obviously forgotten who the real first black president was, Bill Clinton.

Old Dog New Trick

11-10-2015, 13:29

So I missed it, did the faculty, staff, professors and students show up this morning like nothing happened yesterday?

That's a pretty big burden for the President to have carried around on his shoulders and his shoulders alone.

And "Atlas Shrugged" just a little more...

Guymullins

11-10-2015, 14:56

WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE: I just want to say how extremely hurt and disappointed I am. Last night as I walking through campus, some guys riding on the back of a pickup truck decided that it would be okay to continuously scream N***r at me.

I am stuck at the beginning of this sad story, stumped at what on earth N***r could stand for.

Sdiver

11-10-2015, 16:23

Dontchya just love it when Karma comes a callin' .... :munchin

Univ. of Missouri Journalism Dean Issues Statement on Prof. Intimidating Reporter

The dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism has issued a statement about a viral video that features a mass media professor requesting “muscle” to forcibly stop a reporter from covering protests.

The viral video by Mark Schierbecker has received over 600,000 views since it was uploaded yesterday. In the video, Schierbecker captures student journalist Tim Tai as he is confronted by protesters who refuse to let him go through the “human shield” and into the “safe space.”

Tai unsuccessfully tried to reason with the protesters by informing them that he has a First Amendment right to report at the public university.

At the end of the video, Schierbecker identifies himself as a member of the media and requests to interview assistant mass media professor Melissa Click.

Click told Schierbecker he needs to “get out” and asks for individuals to provide “muscle” to eject him.

University of Missouri School of Journalism Dean David Kurpius began his statement on the incident by commending Tai’s professionalism.

Kurpius wrote, “The news media have First Amendment rights to cover public events. Tai handled himself professionally and with poise.”

Kurpius also clarified Click’s role in the School of Journalism.

“[F]or clarification, Assistant Professor Melissa Click, featured in several videos confronting journalists, is not a faculty member in the Missouri School of Journalism.”

However, “She is a member of the MU Department of Communication in the College of Arts and Science. In that capacity she holds a courtesy appointment with the School of Journalism.”

As a result of the actions on Monday, Kurpius claims, “Journalism School faculty members are taking immediate action to review that appointment."

“The events of Nov. 9 have raised numerous issues regarding the boundaries of the First Amendment,” he added. “Although the attention on journalists has shifted the focus from the news of the day, it provides an opportunity to educate students and citizens about the role of a free press.”

The University of Missouri School of Journalism is regarded as one of the top journalism school country.

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/

Hand

11-10-2015, 16:54

Let me just review for my own understanding...

So somebody named Schierbecker filmed somebody named Tim Tai who was trying to make his way into a safe space to ask some folks a question or two.

The safe space participants did not recognize his First Amendment right, because, hey, its a SAFE space!

So then Schierbecker tries to interview someone named Assistant Professor Melissa Click, and she doesn't grant him his First Amendment right either.

So now Assistant Professor Melissa Click is in trouble for refusing Shierbecker into her SAFE space, but the students SAFE space is still sacred.

:confused:

What I'm really wondering about besides what the fuck is going on elsewhere in the world that the news decides its campus protest week is...

how the fuck do you find a book that wasn't written by Dr Seuss that has characters named Tai, Shierbecker and freaking Assistant Professor Melissa Click!!!???

Lil Timmy Tai and Melissa Click went up a hill...

pyreaux

11-10-2015, 16:55

Looks like quite a few assault and battery charges could be filed for each person documented physically contacting him, despite his continued request to stop. Beat them at their own game.

PSM

11-10-2015, 17:23

Let me just review for my own understanding...

So somebody named Schierbecker filmed somebody named Tim Tai who was trying to make his way into a safe space to ask some folks a question or two.

The safe space participants did not recognize his First Amendment right, because, hey, its a SAFE space!

So then Schierbecker tries to interview someone named Assistant Professor Melissa Click, and she doesn't grant him his First Amendment right either.

So now Assistant Professor Melissa Click is in trouble for refusing Shierbecker into her SAFE space, but the students SAFE space is still sacred.

:confused:

I heard Schierbecker interviewed on Dana Loesch's radio show this afternoon and he said that he showed up because of a press release sent out by Click herself. Tai works for the school newspaper. Looks like she may have set up this little tussle.

Pat

Streck-Fu

11-10-2015, 18:42

She wanted journalists and people to talk about them to the nation and world without talking to them because they were to busy being self-important to take questions that may cloud the messaage to fire the President.

Old Dog New Trick

11-10-2015, 18:51

cbtengr

11-10-2015, 20:10

Seems the Democratic race baiters were lighting their torches and sharpening pitchforks ahead of time. Also, Prof. Glick is beginning to look like an instigator to a riot of her own making.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/259512-dem-senator-there-is-systemic-racism-at-university-of-missouri

If the football coach and coaching staff have any integrity at all they should cancel the rest of the season and tell all them players they lost their scholarships. (But that 'll never happen- which is likely the reason the president had to step down.)

Had the football coach had any integrity he would not have sided with his team, he would have maybe headed them in a better direction. I have to wonder who organized the FB team? This bunch did not come up with this idea on their own and obviously the head coach felt pretty secure in his decision to back them. I think the president should have sacked him before his resignation.

Paslode

11-10-2015, 20:39

I heard Schierbecker interviewed on Dana Loesch's radio show this afternoon and he said that he showed up because of a press release sent out by Click herself. Tai works for the school newspaper. Looks like she may have set up this little tussle.

Pat

Maybe the all the goings on at KU amd MU are the intro the perfectly timed Shining Light a Concert.....

Pharrell Williams, Bruce Springsteen and More to Put Spotlight on Race Relations During 'Shining a Light' Concert Special

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6753990/shining-a-light-concert-special-pharrell-williams-bruce-springsteen-john-legend

Old Dog New Trick

11-10-2015, 20:44

Had the football coach had any integrity he would not have sided with his team, he would have maybe headed them in a better direction. I have to wonder who organized the FB team? This bunch did not come up with this idea on their own and obviously the head coach felt pretty secure in his decision to back them. I think the president should have sacked him before his resignation.

I agree, and would say what's been known for a long time. College/University football is bigger than academics.

It would be nice to see the governing body for collegiate football sanction the team and sack the coach but, that won't happen. Can only hope that the NFL won't draft any players that violated their contractual agreements. But, that's not likely to happen either.

Mills

11-10-2015, 21:09

I guess the inmates are in charge of the asylum at Mizzou. I can see the same thing happening at the University of Iowa, the new president at Iowa is not a scholar he comes from the business world and he has been under attack from all sides since he was named. This sets quite a precedent with this resignation. It is not a perfect world for any of us regardless of our backgrounds.

That is the problem with the radical left.

When it is over.........it is just beginning.........

They even admit it, saying things after they get their way like "this is just the beginning!" Further paving the way for more ridiculous accusations and name calling based on the mentality that somewhere in our constitution, there is a clause the dictates that people have the right to "not be offended".

Im convinced that this generation has lost its way. Mainly due to the ideology that kids should fight anymore.

What ever happened to the days when you disagreed with someone and they pushed back that you could just hit them in the nose and that was the end of it?

Sad state of affairs we are in.

Oh wait, that must just be my white privilege.

This left is the biggest group of sore losers and sore winners on the face of the earth.

PSM

11-10-2015, 21:16

Had the football coach had any integrity he would not have sided with his team, he would have maybe headed them in a better direction. I have to wonder who organized the FB team? This bunch did not come up with this idea on their own and obviously the head coach felt pretty secure in his decision to back them. I think the president should have sacked him before his resignation.

My wife had the best solution I've heard. The president should have stayed on through the weekend to call their bluff. If the football team had played, they lose. If they didn't, ain't no one going to the NFL. ;)

Pat

Golf1echo

11-10-2015, 21:21

Not much of a discussion about the issue of the day, more of the liberal argument that goes like " Shut up, no it's not, your wrong, blah blah blah". My goodness it's a University and even young adults are entitled to adult conversations but the victim mentality will not allow that, they have backed themselves into a corner and are unable to communicate anything but how they feel.

Further more I am struck by what pansy's they are, the first university protest/demonstration I witnessed was when it came out that Nixon had bombed Cambodia, I plopped my young self down in between the State Patrol and the protesters and I'll tell you what it looked nothing like these silly students. A rich and diverse experience in life will put their tribulations into perspective. I am also struck with the notion of how bad they would think it was to live into the world they claim to aspire to.

miclo18d

11-11-2015, 07:34

This, ladies and gents, is the perfect example of the preverbial "Self Licking Icecream Cone"

We have college staff and professors create these little marxist "useful idiots", they unleash them upon us. After we have been "punished", they turn around and eat their own.

I freakin' love it!

It's like watching Ebola ransack a village. It kills the entire village then burns itself out! These "bastions of higher learning" will eat themselves to death.

Sit back and enjoy the show.

PedOncoDoc

11-11-2015, 08:46

BrokenSwitch

11-11-2015, 08:55

The coach knows that if he didn't side with the players his head would've been on the chopping block right next to the president's.

I don't know much about sports, but I know there's a balance between how much you want to get paid (or think you can get paid), and how much you'll tolerate before looking elsewhere for that paycheck.

If the coach jumped off this runaway train, where could he go?

Had the football coach had any integrity he would not have sided with his team, he would have maybe headed them in a better direction.
Makes you wonder who's leading whom?

PedOncoDoc

11-11-2015, 09:00

I don't know much about sports, but I know there's a balance between how much you want to get paid (or think you can get paid), and how much you'll tolerate before looking elsewhere for that paycheck.

If the coach jumped off this runaway train, where could he go?

Especially after being labelled a racist on all major media outlets - who would want to take on all the drama?

Streck-Fu

11-11-2015, 09:41

This is starting to smell like a pre-election test run.

Hand

11-11-2015, 10:43

He he he.
Look at all the smart liberated folks spreading tolerance and coexistence.

miclo18d is right, this is enjoyable.

Lan

11-11-2015, 10:45

Guy

11-11-2015, 13:26

I had hoped Tim Wolfe would've called Jonathan Butler's (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jonathan-butler-how-grad-students-hunger-strike-toppled-university-president-n460161) hunger strike bluff before he resigned.Hunger strike my ass....:munchin

Graduate student Jonathan Butler; He's a member of a prominent Omaha family. The newspaper says that Butler's father is Eric L. Butler, executive vice president for sales and marketing for the Union Pacific Railroad. His 2014 compensation was $8.4 million, according to regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Sohei

11-11-2015, 13:29

Hunger strike my ass....:munchin

His idea of a hunger strike is having to eat potted meat and Vienna sausages....

Hunger strike....yeah!

Box

11-11-2015, 14:14

I'd like to see disgruntled athletes completely bring down aMEricas university systeml; nothing would be finer than to see this explode and go nation wide...

Wouldn't it be awesome to see Clemson shut down because the football team decides the governor hasnt fixed racism yet?
Maybe we could see Notre Dame force an minimum wage increase before the Fighting Irish return to the field!!!
The Crimson Tide can finally fix the problem with police brutality by refusing to play until the Chief of Police jumps off a bridge!!!

I hope the young minds that these stupid fucking university administrators have spent the last three decades brain washing, rise up and dismantle every brick in the college.

...you dont want to appoint a chancellor that meets the student bodies expectations.
NO.FUCKING.PROBLEM

We will strike. Social Justice motherfuckers... a truck load of cis-gendered, entitled bullies made an offensive remark and I will not stop until I get satisfaction!!!
Your sports program will crumble when we stop playing and your millions of dollars donated by the alumni will stop.

I hope they protest until the university system cant afford to ignore us any longer and they are forced to submit to EVERY desire floated by the poor oppressed young students.
DO.AS.WE.SAY
...or we will strike

I hope these fucking lunatics destroy the very foundation of the aMErican institution of higher education.

BRICK.BY.BRICK

Academia has spent decades filling these thick skulls full of mush - teaching them that THIS is how you get things done. Well, now everyone can see exactly the type of mush that they have learned in the all inclusive, free speech but dont offend me, university system. How surprising that these SJW's are voraciously biting the hands that feed them.

I hope every single "educator" that has ever used the podium as a bully pulpit for putting agendas in the head of the student body instead of simple adcademic fact is shaking in their boots with the new found proof that the student body can simply refuse to play football...
...and you are fucking done!

The "I told you so" is so sweet.

Badger52

11-11-2015, 16:51

The "I told you so" is so sweet.QSL - I wonder if a revered point-guard is too tall to work the drive-up window...
:boohoo

Paslode

11-11-2015, 21:31

The head shit stirrer in the show is Payton Head. After he essentially screamed FIRE in the theater today via Twitter and Twitchy that KKK was on the campus I don't see how or way this ass clown isn't behind bars let alone allowed within a mile of campus.

The Gateway Pundit is reporting that this asshole meet with the Obama back 2011.

I also read that the Click girl resigned her courtesy appointment but kept her office as mass media professor.

I would like to know who is calling the shots at MU, because it looks like the inmates have taken over the asylum. This is too fucking funny.

PSM

11-11-2015, 21:48

...because it looks like the inmates have taken over the asylum.

The inmates took over in the '70s. These are their progeny. ;)

Pat

Paslode

11-11-2015, 21:58

The inmates took over in the '70s. These are their progeny. ;)

Pat

The 70's... Veit Nam, busing, the mini series Roots and middle school was a zoo rather than a center for education.

blue02hd

11-12-2015, 07:38

I'm still in contact with my best friend from High School who is a Professor in the Mathematics side of the house in MU. I was pulling info, not pushing just to try and understand his point of view and get a good understanding of the situation. In truth, he no longer sounds like the middle classed choir boy I knew back then. He rides a Honda for example,,,

The first key point he described to me was the "fear" that was prevalent on campus. This has been brewing for sometime in the midst of the roughly 37,000 students that attend either full or part time. He indicated the swastika incident was not an isolated event and that he remembered them when he was a student living in the dorms years ago. I guess in his time they didn't protest, they just ignored it and the "jack wagons" (his words) moved on. Today, he describes a very real uneasiness that has people on egg shells. Racism, gun violence, and the belief that MU could see the next mass shooting is very real to them. (his words) I asked him if he carried and his response was "No, I just know how to avoid making enemy's." He then added that he was "pretty sure " that students bring weapons and drugs on campus all the time but the campus police have been cracking down lately , also he tries not to make himself a target and is friendly to everyone. In other words, as a faculty member, he has already chosen to "Go Along", and I found that rather sad.

Another interesting note, the Deans have been encouraging the protesters during their hunger strike by "bringing them food, warmth, praying with them, etc." The Deans of course influence their respective schools, and the movement to oust the President and Chancellor most likely came from top down from the Deans level (my assessment), not bottom up from the grad student, with a Net Worth of 10 to 20 million depending on who you speak to, and his organized following of students. Oh, and he eluded to the fact that the events were organized. When asked by who he couldn't give me a definitive answer, but DID say that the "Lack of Leadership" (sound familiar?) from the top of MU supported why some Deans are stepping in and helping out by "Doing Something". This helps me understand why the lower faculty and football coach are acting as they are. The coach is trying to save his job, while the lower faculty are trying to improve theirs. The writing was on the wall before this ever hit the news for the rest of us to see. My mathematics professor/ friend has chosen to stay out of all of it, science and mathematics is less a socially sensitive area of study it seems. Based on his description and frustration with the situation it came across more of the old head in the sand technique, rather than get involved one way or the other.

This is my understanding of the situation from a faculty member nearing tenure, not the MSM. Sad state of affairs all around. My friend is truly unaware of his position, and responsibility in my humble opinion. I see this getting worse and replicating across other university's.

ALSO My opinion: Columbus MO is a nice sized University settled halfway in between KC and ST Louis on I-70. The town itself has been surrounded by farmland, red necks, and rural folks for as long as I can remember, just like many other major university's around the country. Local boys have been heading to college bars for college skirt for decades, as is the way of things. It's not KKK country like the rumors that originated and later retracted by the student president, never has been. (Dahlonega Ga, perhaps, but not Columbus Mo.). So whats changed with how issues were dealt with then versus now?

Real life UW going on here, we should take note. And if it is an example of the "Self Licking Ice Cream Cone" or "Chickens Coming Home to Roost", someone eventually will figure out how to leverage and harness that energy.

Meanwhile degrees from MU continues to devalue.

Paslode

11-12-2015, 07:59

KU appears to headed in the same direction as MU

http://www.kansan.com/news/in-an-effort-to-combat-microaggression-at-ku-campus-departments/article_85c23c00-729f-11e5-9b14-6b5d73153c5f.html

http://www.infowars.com/university-of-kansas-student-senate-bans-gender-pronouns-because-theyre-microaggressions/

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426071/kansas-student-senate-votes-ban-his-her-microaggression-pronouns

If my kid was heading to college KU and MU would not be options.

Streck-Fu

11-12-2015, 08:39

KU appears to headed in the same direction as MU

http://www.kansan.com/news/in-an-effort-to-combat-microaggression-at-ku-campus-departments/article_85c23c00-729f-11e5-9b14-6b5d73153c5f.html

Seriously, this is the best description of the event that we get?

As an African American student on campus, Ebony Onianwa, a junior from Wichita, remembers being in chemistry lab and having her comments dismissed because of her race.

“It affected me a lot more when I was a freshman and a sophomore,” she said. “I remember in my chemistry lab, I knew what was going on, but they wouldn’t listen to me. It was like, ‘Oh, she doesn’t know anything about science.’ It was so frustrating, and I still remember that and it just makes me so angry.”

Streck-Fu

11-12-2015, 09:28

cbtengr

11-12-2015, 10:06

This “critical race theory” concept — one at the heart of whiteness studies — is perhaps the hardest for most people to understand, MacMullan said. Namely, it’s entirely possible and in fact, normal, to not personally be a racist while still being complicit in a racist culture.

In other words all us white folks are guilty. :confused:

Old Dog New Trick

11-12-2015, 10:50

Spreading to campuses across America. Now Mizzou really feels like a trial run. Ithaca college pulls the same stunt to fire the President.

Meanwhile, students insist that their fears of online 'threats' permit them to insist a test be rescheduled. Professor resigns when social media hounds him for the desicion to hold the test and for the students to stand up to bullies. LINK (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/12/grow-up-tweets-legendary-mizzou-football-star-to-students-who-hounded-hero-professor/)

And here is a perfect summary of the liberal view regarding racsim; you may not be racist but you are guilty of it for participating in society. LINK (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/12/a-course-originally-called-the-problem-of-whiteness-returns-to-asu-as-racial-tensions-boil-over-on-campuses/?ref=yfp)

Having studied the Great Wars before and knowing the sacrifices made by so many to be victorious regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic status and privilege...

I find myself deliriously satisfied that the next Great War will be shared so equally amongst our great and diverse nation.

Because in light of Veterans Day yesterday the previous Great Wars were decidedly one sided and the burden of war was foisted upon predominantly one class and one race. I'm certain of it now, that they gave all for an ungrateful nation of privileged and protected classes of undeserving little shits.

Ish Allah, (God Willing) ISIS is an equal opportunity male chauvinistic, raping, murdering, anti-feminist, anti-gay, sodomizing boys and animals, and culturally and religiously against everything but Islam.

So when the bullets start flying maybe we will be able to forget all our petty differences and band together one more time. Only with diversity and an equal share of the bloodshed.

frostfire

11-12-2015, 12:52

Local boys have been heading to college bars for college skirt for decades, as is the way of things. It's not KKK country like the rumors that originated and later retracted by the student president, never has been. (Dahlonega Ga, perhaps, but not Columbus Mo.). So whats changed with how issues were dealt with then versus now?

Ouch, I have been to every nook and cranny of Dawhlonegah, Jewjuh for over 7 years and I can tell you with volition that it's no KKK capital. It ain't deliverance either. Meth capital, maybe...but that's another story

Someone wise once taught me, expectation is invitation. Yes, well-meaning people told me all the time to be careful of those confederate flag waving crowd. Well, guess what....I still talked to them, did tutoring together, learned how to sling lead from them, and eventually became monthly guest instructor at a shooting club. Never once felt discriminated. The well-meaning people? They pulled race cards, never associated, and attributed their own doing to "whiteness" Just like another thread here about the jazz player who converted KKK members, reconciliation has to start with a common ground. When each party focuses on division, vilifying and "ethnic study" more, all we got is more disenfranchised hyphenated-American.

And if we want to talk racism, I would consider "white" less racist than plenty Asians, Indians, Arabs I've come across

Hand

11-12-2015, 14:53

Fitting new logo!

Badger52

11-12-2015, 15:19

In other words all us white folks are guilty. :confused:There ya go.
:cool:

Peregrino

11-12-2015, 15:23

Fitting new logo!

Sorta funny - given that progressives have "rained all over their parade" and the admonitions from my youth to "avoid the yellow snow".

The Reaper

11-12-2015, 18:47

Start canceling varsity sports and eliminating athletic scholarships.

I strongly suspect that nothing in a school's mission statement says anything about TV revenue and varsity sports.

TR

cbtengr

11-12-2015, 19:37

If all of these students feel so threatened at these predominately white colleges perhaps they should consider the alternative.

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are U.S. higher education institutions that were established prior to 1964 with the intention of offering accredited, high-quality education to African American students. These schools do, however, admit students of all races. The 106 HBCUs across America include public and private schools, 2-year and 4-year schools, and professional schools. There are more than a hundred HBCUs among top U.S. colleges and universities today.

http://www.bestcolleges.com/features/top-30-historically-black-colleges/

tonyz

11-12-2015, 20:45

Interesting glimpse into how some currently in college view our country...patience...it's painful but insightful...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmji36q8E4o&feature=youtu.be

PSM

11-12-2015, 21:37

Interesting glimpse into how some currently in college view our country

Yes and no. My son is currently in college, well, actually, not at the moment, he's had to take two weeks off to go to Annual Training for the CO National Guard. And he's not the only one. They just don't get face time on TV. ;)

Pat

bailaviborita

11-13-2015, 07:20

From an article on why it is paradoxically difficult to teach about different cultures to the "multi-cultural-ists"- since to do so pretty much guarantees you will offend them (or someone):

http://virtualschool.edu/mon/SocialConstruction/TeachingOtherCultures.html

Unfortunately, the radical multiculturalists attack science and technology as an evil, masculine "discourse" that oppresses, pollutes, and privileges "linear thinking." They attack the "Enlightenment Project" as an ideological cover for Western cultural imperialism. And they hate the Bible for promoting patriarchy and heterosexism. In so doing, they are attempting to destroy the very principles under which toleration of diverse cultures has in fact the best chance of flowering! In so doing, the multiculturalists help to perpetuate the tragedy that Alexander Solzhenitsyn called "A World Split Apart."

I submit we cannot sit back and watch all this with humor. Their goal is to fundamentally change our society. This is all a means to that end. Another means- something they are pushing- is a jobs program wherein schools are forced to set up (most already have) Diversity Centers and Diversity officers and sexual harassment administrators and offices- and on and on- and these centers employ the once-unemployable: those who have majored in Gender Identity, African-American, or Women's Studies. These centers spawn protests for more hiring and racial quotas and stage more "hysteria" events in which the only solution is to hire more of these folks and establish more of these centers. Their mandatory social justice classes and introductory courses instill in freshmen a sense they are being victimized- or, if they are White and male- that they are the perps- and thus require a fresh round of perceived sleights which require more protests and more change.

Things are so good in this country we've had to invent a new way to get hysterical about things so that we can change: micro-aggressions. I guess once we eliminate micro-aggressions we can then talk about quanta-aggressions. You know- the type of aggression that is in our "social DNA" and that can only be gotten rid of by taking all of our $...

tonyz

11-13-2015, 07:42

Yes and no. My son is currently in college, well, actually, not at the moment, he's had to take two weeks off to go to Annual Training for the CO National Guard. And he's not the only one. They just don't get face time on TV. ;)

Pat

Good for your son.
:lifter

x SF med

11-13-2015, 07:51

Streck-Fu

11-13-2015, 08:13

More protests get funding....

LINK (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/major-donors-consider-funding-black-lives-matter-215814)

Some of the biggest donors on the left plan to meet behind closed doors next week in Washington with leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement and their allies to discuss funding the burgeoning protest movement, POLITICO has learned.

The meetings are taking place at the annual winter gathering of the Democracy Alliance major liberal donor club, which runs from Tuesday evening through Saturday morning and is expected to draw Democratic financial heavyweights, including Tom Steyer and Paul Egerman.
....................................
In fact, one group set to participate in Hunt-Hendrix’s dinner ― Black Civic Engagement Fund ― is a Democracy Alliance offshoot. And, according to the DA agenda, two other groups recommended for club funding ― ColorOfChange.org and the Advancement Project ― are set to participate in a Friday panel “on how to connect the Movement for Black Lives with current and needed infrastructure for Black organizing and political power.”

ColorOfChange.org has helped Black Lives Matter protesters organize online, said its Executive Director Rashad Robinson. He dismissed concerns that the movement is compromised in any way by accepting support from major institutional funders. “Throughout our history in this country, there have been allies who have been willing to stand up and support uprisings, and lend their resources to ensure that people have a greater voice in their democracy,” Robinson said.

Streck-Fu

11-13-2015, 08:17

tolerance?

They don't know what that word means. They want it to mean absolute silence from you if you don't agree with their view.

Five-O

11-13-2015, 08:30

Ok... 6 pages of discussion and my original mind boggling question remains.

Where is personal responsibility in this? The Student Council President (no matter his race, creed, orientation etc.) called for the resignation of the University president over the actions of students on the football team. Censure/discipline the football players, have them apologize to the other student, kick them off the team, and it should be done. Fomenting an internal university uprising and calling for the resignation of the college president - instigated by an adjunct professor of communications with an agenda promulgated on the socialist overthrow from below model seems a bit out there. And the professor will not claim personal responsibility for her actions, she'll blame somebody else.

Get real students - the world is a harsh place and YOU have to take responsibility for your actions, not blame an authority for the actions of others YOU deem unfair.

All the student protestors, and the fuckwit professors who supported this charade of social justice need to move the fuck out of the US to one of their pet project countries and really see about injustice.

what ever happened to personal responsibility , common respect and true tolerance?

Idiocy has taken over.

Ineffectual and weak leadership at the school has in part helped to create this environment. As has been posted previously, claims of racism or ethnic intimidation have not been investigated properly, substantiated or addressed at the highest levels of the school. The University president should have the tools to know what is happening on his campus but all indications his head was in the sand. He created a leadership climate where two professors thought it was OK to get in the face, threaten and intimidate a student reporter. Had he been on top of things he could have been ahead of this nonsense. His decision to resign is is a manifestation of his weakness. I would say good riddance but the next president will be a "yes man/woman" to the protestors and will be tasked with diffusing a bomb that has already gone off.

bailaviborita

11-13-2015, 08:52

The protesters are happy with the new interim president.

But, this is JUST the beginning- in their own words...

Social justice demands a never-ending problem...

Sort of, "Global War on Micro-aggressions and White male imperialist Heteronormativity" (GWoMaWitH)- pronounced "Gee, woah- Ma- What in the Hell?"

The good news is that the Pentagon is developing a new concept from all this. It is called the "Cognitive, Joint Force Safe Space" initiative. We will deploy Human Domain teams into countries that are unstable and establish "safe spaces" wherein no-one will be allowed to do anything bad. We will use Big Data to dominate the information spectrum and conquer these really bad "Grey Zones" with non-CISgendered Safe Space teams.

Badger52

11-13-2015, 10:30

LMAO - outstanding. I see a new dual-hatted MACOM on the way. :DMore GO billets; that'll fix everything!
... "safe spaces" wherein no-one will be allowed to do anything bad.So that no one will be allowed to "feel" bad.

Old Dog New Trick

11-13-2015, 12:15

Redacted - irrelevant

bailaviborita

11-15-2015, 14:31

This may end up destroying the current educational system- which isn't probably worth keeping anyway...

From: http://www.amherstsoul.com/post/133122838315/amherst-uprising-what-we-stand-for

Submitted by Amherst Uprising - a collective of students on campus who came together as a result of the sit-In organized in Frost Library on 11/12/15.

Students shared the demands below with President Biddy Martin that same evening in Frost.

Initiate within 24-48 hours and complete by Wednesday, November 18, 11:59 pm.

Please communicate this list to the Board of Trustees on behalf of the students.

This list includes demands not only for President Biddy Martin but for key people of the administration —

Preamble:

We, Students of Amherst College, refuse to accept the negative social climate created towards our peers of color and other marginalized groups. We have begun this movement, Amherst Uprising, in an effort to change the status quo for a more just and inclusive environment within our campus. We demand that Amherst become a leader in the fight to promote a better social climate towards individuals who have been systematically oppressed. Student leaders acknowledge and support the demands previously stated and currently being presented. Furthermore, we demand the College acknowledge its ethical and moral responsibilities as an institution and community of our world. Amherst College should not be complicit in oppressive organizations and systems, no less.

We as a compassionate student body have gathered to address the legacy of oppression on campus. If these goals are not initiated within the next 24 to 48 hours, and completed by November 18th, we will organize and respond in a radical manner, through civil disobedience. If there is a continued failure to meet our demands, it will result in an escalation of our response.

1. President Martin must issue a statement of apology to students, alumni and former students, faculty, administration and staff who have been victims of several injustices including but not limited to our institutional legacy of white supremacy, colonialism, anti-black racism, anti-Latinx racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Native/ indigenous racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Middle Eastern racism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma, and classism. Also include that marginalized communities and their allies should feel safe at Amherst College.

2. We demand Cullen Murphy ‘74, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, to issue a statement of apology to students, alumni and former students, faculty, administration, and staff who have been victims of several injustices including but not limited to our institutional legacy of white supremacy, colonialism, anti-black racism, anti-Latinx racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Native/ indigenous racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Middle Eastern racism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma, and classism

3. Amherst College Police Department must issue a statement of protection and defense from any form of violence, threats, or retaliation of any kind resulting from this movement.

4. President Martin must issue a statement of apology to faculty, staff and administrators of color as well as their allies, neither of whom were provided a safe space for them to thrive while at Amherst College.

5. President Martin must issue a statement to the Amherst College community at large that states we do not tolerate the actions of student(s) who posted the “All Lives Matter” posters, and the “Free Speech” posters that stated that “in memoriam of the true victim of the Missouri Protests: Free Speech.” Also let the student body know that it was racially insensitive to the students of color on our college campus and beyond who are victim to racial harassment and death threats; alert them that Student Affairs may require them to go through the Disciplinary Process if a formal complaint is filed, and that they will be required to attend extensive training for racial and cultural competency.

6. President Martin must issue a statement of support for the revision of the Honor Code to reflect a zero-tolerance policy for racial insensitivity and hate speech.

7. President Martin must release a statement by Friday, November 13th, 2015 by 5:00pm that condemns the inherent racist nature of the unofficial mascot, the Lord Jeff, ... blah, blah...

8. Dean Epstein must ask faculty to excuse all students from all 5 College classes, work shifts, and assignments from November 12th, 2015 to November 13th, 2015 given their organization of and attendance at the Sit-In.

9. Do not threaten the jobs of the faculty, staff, or administrators that support our list of demands. Such threats will result in an escalation of our response.

10. The Office of Alumni and Parent Programs must send former students an email of current events on campus including a statement that Amherst College does not condone any racist or culturally insensitive reactions to this information.

11. Dean Epstein must encourage faculty to provide a space for students to discuss this week’s events during class time.

Please acknowledge that all of these statements of apology are not the end all - that they are only a part of short-term healing and by no means achieve all of the goals we will set forth. We are in the process of finalizing long-term goals which we hope to collaborate on regularly with all members of the community.

By no means does this start/stop with the administration.

tonyz

11-15-2015, 14:43

"5. President Martin must issue a statement to the Amherst College community at large that states we do not tolerate the actions of student(s) who posted the “All Lives Matter” posters, and the “Free Speech” posters that stated that “in memoriam of the true victim of the Missouri Protests: Free Speech.” Also let the student body know that it was racially insensitive to the students of color on our college campus and beyond who are victim to racial harassment and death threats; alert them that Student Affairs may require them to go through the Disciplinary Process if a formal complaint is filed, and that they will be required to attend extensive training for racial and cultural competency."

Lol, "All lives matter" and "free speech" is bad..."how many fingers Winston?"

Badger52

11-15-2015, 21:09

2. We demand Cullen Murphy ‘74, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, to issue a statement of apology to students, alumni and former students, faculty, administration, and staff who have been victims of several injustices including but not limited to our institutional legacy of white supremacy, colonialism, anti-black racism, anti-Latinx racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Native/ indigenous racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Middle Eastern racism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma, and classism
LMAO.

x SF med

11-17-2015, 12:03

Ok, kill the strong... enable the weak, and have the remaining empowered few despots, rule this land of 'equality' with an iron fist....

recent phine transcript from the etherline connection between the 'equality' mongers and their predecessors....

HELLO, Vlad, Vlad Lenin? Can you go on speaker with Joe Stalin, Ivan Trotsky, Lav Beria and Vlad Brezhnyev? We have some policy and protocol issues to discuss with you... Ok, the proles want equality, so we give them the nod on that, but then make it so that if they exercise any freedoms they go to Siberia or the Lubyanka.... gotcha... great.... so we feed them lines of shit until we wholly control them and get them following us religiously, and feed, clothe and medicate them ... right into total submission.... wonderful, thanks for the help, oh, btw... how did you turn Rasputin into your tool and where are the bodies of the Romanovs?

Sdiver

11-17-2015, 12:49

Pretty fitting for this thread ....

tonyz

11-18-2015, 16:41

Interesting perspective on the current campus phenomena - complete article at link.

The University Gone Feral
National Review
by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON November 17, 2015 12:00 AM @VDHANSON On campus, social norms no longer apply.

The university, long exempted from social norms and rules, has gone wild in the 21st century — or rather, regressed to pre-puberty. The University of Missouri campus police now request that students — a group not known for polite vocabulary — call law enforcement if someone disparages them with hurtful names.

On the same campus, a media professor shouts for students in the vicinity to strong-arm a student photographer to stop him from taking pictures in a way that she does not approve. Other staff members try to block and push away a journalist they find bothersome. Since when do thuggish faculty, in Michael Corleone fashion, call in muscle to intimidate students who are exercising their First Amendment rights?

Since when do quite privileged Yale students — in mini–Cultural Revolution style — surround and, teary-eyed, shout obscenities at their professor? Their target was declared to be guilty of some infraction against the people by an ad hoc court of whiny elites, poorly acting the role of the Committee of Public Safety. Apparently his offense was to suggest that students should not become hysterical when they see Halloween costumes they don’t like. Shouting down guest speakers, disrupting events, and mobbing individuals would not be tolerated at Disney World, so why on campus?

The assumed impoverished black student at the University of Missouri who went on a hunger strike to protest “white privilege” was raised in plentitude as the son of a multimillionaire corporate executive. The young woman who yelled obscenities at Yale over Halloween costumes is likewise a child of privilege. Campus outbursts reveal more about the anxieties and neuroses of the adolescent and pampered than about existential issues of hunger, violence, or bias. Campus feminists demand new codes concerning sexual congress, largely as a result of an epidemic of rather callous campus hook-ups. They allege that one of four women on campus will inevitably be sexually assaulted. But if that were true, and parents believed it, then they would be unwise to send their children to Princeton or UCLA. Indeed, they would prefer that their kids party not at the University of Michigan but in the safer streets of Detroit.

Apparently, the security concerns at USC involve not the nearby Watts neighborhood, but the student union on campus. Should frightened women at Stanford flee the quad for supposedly safer hangouts in East Palo Alto? Is there a “reign of terror” on campuses in Washington, D.C., similar to the one that is hitting neighborhoods around the Capitol?

The strangest campus derangement is the graft of Victorian prurience onto postmodern crudity. Students who are quite sexually active, and routinely use drugs and alcohol, nonetheless revert to virginal preteens who must be shielded from rough language or mere rudeness. They demand Victorian rules of sexual etiquette, but not commensurate 19th-century notions of abstinence, housing segregated by gender, dress codes that discourage randiness, or prohibitions against drug and alcohol use. Pick-and-choose campus feminists do not wish doors opened for them, but insist that sex codes delineate the stages of arousal, from foreplay to postcoital pleasantries. How strange that “adult” students want to dress up in little kids’ costumes on Halloween, and then act like children terrified of scary things in the night. There is another common denominator to this epidemic of madness. Why are universities free from norms that apply to other American institutions? Is it the implied social contract that their educational mission is so sacred and so dutifully fulfilled that they simply cannot follow the rules or expectations that the rest of us do?

Free speech is guaranteed under the First Amendment, but not necessarily at universities. They assume that their own codes supersede the Bill of Rights and can limit any sort of expression that a minority of students arbitrarily defines as hurtful. Equal pay for equal work may be a national rallying cry. Yet for some reason, academia expects that it can pay a graduate-student teaching assistant or a PhD-holding part-time instructor a fraction of what it would pay a tenured full professor for teaching the identical class. The gulf between a full professor and a part-timer — in terms of money, power, and status — far exceeds that between the WalMart manager and his greeter at the door. And at least the latter pair have far different tasks. Is such disparity liberal?

Coal miners do not have tenure. Neither do carpenters. Wall Street CEOs have no guarantee of life-long employment. Nor do lawyers, doctors, or groundskeepers. Why do academics? Does guaranteed job security ensure freedom of expression, diverse political views, and edgy theories? If so, why then do faculties donate overwhelmingly to the Democratic party, include few conservative voices, and conduct melodramatic witch-hunts against those who are skeptical of global warming? If tenure gave us all that, what might follow from no tenure — too much political diversity, too much free expression, too many divergent views?

Crony capitalism is a favorite charge against duplicitous corporations that use insider knowledge and friendships to leverage favors from government, both to profit inordinately and to stifle competition. But even the croniest of capitalists could not match the university Ponzi scheme of having the government guarantee student loans, which in turn guarantee that rising tuition will be paid in full without audit, even as the cost soars above the rate of inflation — all on the wink-and-nod expectation that millions of students will subsequently default and the government will cover the huge tab. How could a university admissions officer in good conscience extend a “package” of $100,000 to $200,000 in student loans over a four- or five-year stint on campus, with the full knowledge that it would be almost impossible for an unemployed or partly employed graduate to pay back what he had borrowed? Consumer protection and truth in advertising are iconic in America. So how then do universities all but promise students well-paying jobs upon graduation, and instead turn out graduates who are neither educated nor — if employment statistics are accurate — especially employable? The Obama administration has a tendency to hunt down two-year for-profit tech schools that supposedly do not follow through on their big promises to find jobs for their federally indebted computer-technician or accounting graduates. But that is a small con compared to the gender-studies or environmental-studies major from Duke, Wellesley, or Swarthmore whose $250,000 college investment led to a low-paying internship or administrative-assistant billet — or a basement bedroom back home.

Diversity as defined by the Obama administration amounts to proportional representation: If a police force or DMV office does not have minority employees in the same ratio as their presence in the general population, then “disparate impact” is declared and remediation is required. There is no excuse that “merit” has led to a work force that does not look like America. Campuses agree, at least in terms of faculty and admissions, but why then is the football, basketball, or tennis team exempt? How can it be that there are almost no Asian linemen, no Latino basketball centers, no African-American swimmers? Is that any more a ridiculous question than why there are not more African-American classics professors or Latino physicists? How can it be sinful that African-Americans are underrepresented in the library, while it is apparently admirable that in marquee football programs they are vastly overrepresented, at least by the metrics of the diversity industry? How Orwellian to see black scholarship football players threatening to boycott their next game unless the University of Missouri met their racial quotas for staff and faculty, when they inordinately represented 50 percent of the team — five times the proportion of African-Americans in the general population. Did they justify their “overrepresentation” on the politically incorrect doctrine that merit trumps the federal guidelines of “disparate impact”? Or was it more cynical: While less-important areas such as teaching, scholarship, and admissions must be subject to disparate-impact reasoning, existential activities such as football have to be exempt?

One-drop-of-blood racial paranoia characterized the Old South and became a linchpin of Jim Crow segregation. But as we saw in the Elizabeth Warren, Ward Churchill, and Shaun King cases, under its new manifestations, we may have to issue DNA badges and dig up the old racial categories of antebellum Mississippi to express what defines minority status — one-16th, one-quarter, or one-half African-American, Native American, or Latino, but not three-quarters Arab or 100 percent Punjabi or Castilian? And how does one then prove one’s authenticity — a resort to Elizabeth Warren’s assertion of “high cheekbones,” or Ward Churchill’s headdress and buckskins?

Why does the country put up with these absurdities? Of course, students are young, hormone-driven, immature, and impressionable, and must be given some slack. And, yes, many faculty members are delicate indoor orchids, who can pontificate only in the safety of the campus hothouse and would wilt if thrown outside to face the rat-race on the freeway or in the tire shop. Campuses claim they are left-wing, but in fact they are no-wing: just fascist, authoritarian, infantile — and incompetent.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427152/university-protestors-demands

Dusty

11-18-2015, 17:02

tonyz

11-18-2015, 17:14

Good stuff, Tony. Gotta love VDH.

"And, yes, many faculty members are delicate indoor orchids, who can pontificate only in the safety of the campus hothouse and would wilt if thrown outside to face the rat-race on the freeway or in the tire shop"

Thank Dusty. Yup, VDH brings some extensive personal experience to the table.

This whole campus hub bub is essentially lost on me. I had to ask a friend if they have a diversity officer and he replied that they have - for years - here is a paraphrase of his observations...

"We have long had a diversity officer. That person's job is to determine whether we have a diverse faculty and student body for all purposes other than intellectual diversity. It is also to insure group think; that everyone follows the party line and makes no aggressive/offensive comments such as "bless you" or "Merry Christmas," or "you look nice today."

craigepo

11-18-2015, 18:05

social hypochondria

Dusty

11-18-2015, 18:26

Thank Dusty. Yup, VDH brings some extensive personal experience to the table.

This whole campus hub bub is essentially lost on me. I had to ask a friend if they have a diversity officer and he replied that they have - for years - here is a paraphrase of his observations...

"We have long had a diversity officer. That person's job is to determine whether we have a diverse faculty and student body for all purposes other than intellectual diversity. It is also to insure group think; that everyone follows the party line and makes no aggressive/offensive comments such as "bless you" or "Merry Christmas," or "you look nice today."

So, "I'm fickin' ta git all macro-aggressive up in y'all butt" probably wouldn't fly...

tonyz

11-18-2015, 18:33

So, "I'm fickin' ta git all macro-aggressive up in y'all butt" probably wouldn't fly...

Don't be so quick to discount anything in the butt on today's college campus.

Badger52

11-18-2015, 19:44

Don't be so quick to discount anything in the butt on today's college campus.The campus nursing offices are swapping out to old-school rectal thermometers. You know, for that primal, get-in-touch, feeling.

tonyz

11-18-2015, 19:48

The campus nursing offices are swapping out to old-school rectal thermometers. You know, for that primal, get-in-touch, feeling.

Lol, the campus HR department is getting in on the act, as well...heard at campus republican faculty advisor annual review meetings..."bend over and assume the feedback position..."

Badger52

11-18-2015, 19:49

Lol, the campus HR department is getting in on the act, as well...heard at campus republican faculty advisor annual review meetings..."bend over and assume the feedback position..."Awright, 'nuff. First Dusty, now you. Not wasting this good Colombian onto a monitor.
:D

tonyz

11-18-2015, 19:57

Awright, 'nuff. First Dusty, now you. Not wasting this good Colombian onto a monitor.
:D

Ok, ok, hope it was that 'spensive free trade or is that free range Colombian...both are prolly ok and meet group-think approval on today's college campus. And, that's what is important. ;)

Paslode

11-18-2015, 23:57

I
The University Gone Feral
National Review
by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON November 17, 2015 12:00 AM @VDHANSON On campus, social norms no longer apply.

Since reading the article I've been thinking about this quote......

Professor Hanson offers polemics about eggheads and their allegedly pernicious influence upon American society.

PSM

11-19-2015, 00:05

Since reading the article I've been thinking about this quote......

And your conclusion is...? :confused:

Pat

Joker

11-19-2015, 04:09

There chickens have come home to roost, or you reap what you sow.

Paslode

11-20-2015, 17:01

And your conclusion is...? :confused:

Pat

My conclusion....VDH has been hitting the nail on the head for sometime.

PSM

11-20-2015, 17:10

My conclusion....VDH has been hitting the nail on the head for sometime.

I agree! :D

Pat

bailaviborita

11-20-2015, 23:40

bumped to new thread- since this is less about Mizzou now and more about how the Wacky Left has taken over many of the Humanities Departments of our universities and are now trying to overthrow the entire system... and demanding we pay for it all---

Badger52

11-21-2015, 03:05

A cyclic process perhaps. Somewhere in the midst of these strap-hangers are the next Jarretts, Axelrods, etc. - not of the same stripe (stripe tbd) but in 2040 some of these might be getting Wiki searches done on them asking "where did this yay-hoo come from?" That is, if the ability to question anything is still permitted by the head of the barnyard at the time.

Flagg

11-21-2015, 13:52

Well it would appear that the information/shaping operations are working at the strategic level:

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/21/poll-40-percent-of-millennials-want-speech-censored/

Badger52

11-27-2015, 16:49

The coach knows that if he didn't side with the players his head would've been on the chopping block right next to the president's.He may not have to wait that long...
Pandering to Diversity box: Check
Go Along to Get Along box: Check
Performance at Core Job Requirement: :rolleyes:

The Razorbacks must not have got the email.

Golf1echo

05-09-2016, 13:16

Something that will not surprise most here: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/09/crack-misogyny-and-stealing-from-hotels-meet-mizzous-rich-kid-civil-rights-hero.html

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/12/mizzou-hunger-strike-protester-dumped-by-talent-agency-after-disturbing-videos-surface.html