“It’s not just in the Midwest, it’s not just in Columbia, Missouri”, Younis said. A few times this year, black students have been heckled by people who hurled the “n-word” at them on and around campus.
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University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, who is black, reportedly said in a message Friday that her management will start sharing information “early next week” on how the school will address the racial issue.
As conversations centered around racism and discrimination continue on campus, Yale alumni are also making their voices heard – including through an open letter supporting recent student solidarity efforts that has garnered more than 2,100 signatures. A third troubling instance involved a swastika reportedly being drawn in feces in a dormitory bathroom. Thank you Jonathan Butler, the University of Missouri football team and the students at the University of Missouri for fighting for something you believed in and not enabling the system to silence you.
In a statement Monday night, Turner said he had received the list of demands and looked “forward to reviewing it carefully and continuing discussions with student leaders regarding the requests and perspectives it contains”.
First-year political science student Tiffany Darden says following the party, she noticed that racial tensions increased.
How has the movement spread?
He told ABC’s George Stephanopolous that he hopes last week’s protests at the University of Missouri bring change. At Ithaca College in Upstate NY, students citing the Mizzou protests called for the resignation of their college president, criticizing his lackluster response to racial incidents on campus. On the Claremont McKenna College campus, the dean of students and junior class president both resigned after a series of protests. Hashtags such as #InSolidarityWithMizzou, #InSolidarityWithYale, #ConcernedStudent1950 and #BlackOnCampus now have thousands of results on Facebook and Twitter. Please stand in solidarity for the students at Mizzou, Yale, and other universities experiencing hate and racism. Others must be reminded that, in a civil society, that must be their attitude, too.
One relatively simple demand from the protestors, that the University of Missouri have 10 percent of their faculty be comprised of African Americans, would require Mizzou to hire an astoundingly high 400 new educators.
“It was attractive seeing everyone coming together and I’m just really grateful that I’ve gotten to grow closer with the black community here and with other allies, who come to Mizzou”. In high school, I don’t remember many black students being in the honors courses in which I was enrolled.
Instead of addressing these and similar concerns, Mr. Wolfe was largely silent until the campus protests. White supremacy wanted black student football players to think the school had the power, but guess what? They understand that they produce millions of dollars for their universities and how important football is to their schools but above all, the University of Missouri football team stood on the side of justice and remembered that football isn’t as important as the equality of all people.
UC Berkeley has had a strategic plan in place since 2009 for equity, inclusion and diversity, known as Pathway to Excellence – although students and faculty have expressed their opinion online and through protests that the campus has room to improve.
By 1:20 p.m., the more than 150 black students and allies funneled out of the building, marching in silence towards Day Hall.
“There’s been a campaign of intimidation, where students are going dorm to dorm, floor to floor and asking students to go back to their dorms and put on black if they’re not wearing black”, the parent of one student said.
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“While I am grateful for Rutgers’ recent steps to improving issues of race, such as the formation of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Populations in Rutgers History, there is a lot more work to be done”, Higginbotham said.
