When the biggest complaint that student protesters at Yale can muster is that the university brass has failed to create “safe space” – something that doesn’t exist on this planet – they’re backhandedly showing how much else administrators have done to promote the cause of diversity.
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ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas, a Mizzou grad, said the incident “dismayed” her. Meanwhile, CNN Money included Mizzou’s Melissa Click in its story about “extreme political correctness”.
The allegation is that a fraternity brother at Sigma Alpha Epsilon said they were looking for “white girls only”.
At Yale, administrators sent an email that advised students to consider the ramifications of certain costume choices for Halloween.
This is a rush transcript.
This week’s university protests have largely been peaceful, though police in Missouri on Wednesday arrested two white men on suspicion of making online threats against black people.
The events at Missouri, which culminated in the resignation of University president Tim Wolfe on Monday in Columbia.
Earnest reacted to the on-camera verbal collision, saying, “The reason that you have public protests and public demonstrations is so people can be aware of your concerns”. “Halloween is also unfortunately a time when the normal thoughtfulness and sensitivity of most Yale students can sometimes be forgotten and a few poor decisions can be made including wearing feathered headdresses, turbans, wearing “war paint” or modifying skin tone or wearing black face or red face”, said the email. “It’s not about what you may or may not be doing, it’s about structures that are in place”.
Students like Luther considered the email inappropriate, and have asked for an apology. Yet you respond not with an apology. In a subsequent confrontation between students and House Master Nicholas Christakis, students argued that institutional racism was downplayed by discussions of free speech and that their feeling of safety in their home was being threatened by Erika Christakis’s call to engage with their perceived objectification. “You’re going against that”. “I want to talk about my pain”. Instead of confronting peers who express bigoted views and picketing the offending frat, they deposed a fatherly figurehead because he couldn’t protect them from individual students’ random, self-initiated and unpreventable acts.
LEX BARLOWE: Yeah, absolutely.
The Daily Caller reported that Luther was on the list of Silliman master aide’s, but she’s disappeared, indicating that she may have quit her post. “Do not wear anything that is not your own culture”. Pretty simple and pretty polite, to be honest. Furthermore, one of the administrators who sent out the note at Yale wrote a very similar reminder to students while at Northwestern University in 2010, just a year after a blackface controversy on that campus. But I do believe in creating a home for students and actually caring how they feel.
And so, you know, students were outraged. And in particular, the advice that she gave was to either look away or to engage in dialogue with someone who might be wearing something culturally appropriative. “Just know we are here for you …”
Golbourne said the posts were not surprising because racism is an issue students deal with at UB.
We are grateful for your questions, your involvement, and your engagement, and we renew our pledge to take further actions to improve the climate on campus and support and enhance diversity; we will share those steps with you before Thanksgiving. He had actually not attended the forum the night before. There was not even an email. And so, students began demanding of him, “Where is our email?” Where is our email? In addition, he is calling for “inclusion, healing, mutual respect and understanding” at Yale.
AMY GOODMAN: Was it also inspired by or fueled by what happened at the University of Missouri? Students of all races and backgrounds rose up and marched a “March of Resilience” in a demonstration that has gained national
attention. “It is evident our campus must do more for people of color – especially women”, the newspaper’s editorial board stated in the November 6 article.
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That being said, we want to encourage people to get up out of bed, go to their classes and make a productive difference in what is happening. When we come back, we go to Cairo, Egypt.
