Butler’s hunger strike began on November 3 – Wolfe resigned on November 9. It was the resignation of Timothy Wolfe, president of the three-campus University of Missouri system.
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The Daily Mail reports that a student group called Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk is making “diversity demands” to the University of Kansas.
Demands included hiring a director for the Office of Multicultural Affairs by next month, mandatory “intense inclusion and belonging training” for all students, staff and administration, increased diversity in hiring and increasing the percentage of underrepresented students on campus.
“It’s very competitive to get faculty of colour simply because a lot of schools want them”.
I am walking out because when my white mother was kicked out of college for dating my black father, our family had about a million dollars of earning potential stolen from us, and the bill is due.
Of course, far from being oppressed, students at Missouri and Yale are junior members of the country’s elite, enjoying huge advantages over their peers.
President Obama said students wanting to change society have to be courageous and protest in a thoughtful and peaceful way.
“We refuse to be quiet”, said one speaker. It’s an issue in towns and communities nationwide.
At every level of prestige, universities embarked on rigorous campaigns of affirmative action recruiting. The student body at Mizzou was 77 percent white in 2014, much more diverse than where I was from, and 7 percent black. “We’re of all talk, no action”. “We say what are you thinking about this?” The letter also questions tactics, such as hunger strikes, over a dean’s statement.
“Black students do not feel that the student senate provides adequate representation, funding and support for their needs”, the committee said, according to the Journal-World.
It’s unclear what the student body president was doing when he was allegedly accosted or even if anyone witnessed the alleged incident, but unless the miscreants were University employees driving a University truck, it’s hard to see what their conduct has to do with the school or its president. “I will be there – I hope you can make it as well”. I believe. I believe that. However, he added that being an activist also “involves hearing the other side”. Wolfe had angered many by appearing indifferent to student concerns about a series of racial incidents. The university also announced it would employ a diversity initiative.
If there’s one thing University of Missouri senior Alanna Diggs thinks people are getting wrong about campus racism protests, it’s the assumption that they’re something new.
“We can confront these issues”, Moon said, if the entire university, department after department, comes together”. Students have the right to express their views on issues they consider fundamental to their wellbeing.
Allen and several other students said they gave SMU President R. Gerald Turner a list of demands Monday, including the recruitment of more black students, professors, administrators and trustees. She also spoke about a town hall meeting on the 11th to discuss “race, respect and responsibility”. “Right now the problem that people are focused on is just the all black one”. “Yes, it definitely bothered me at the time, this was a person I barely knew”, says Quan. “Changing and challenging the system is something that we have to look at more than changing the minds of people”. However, three student leaders are allegedly on the outs due to not “standing in solidarity” with the group. “They want to see a few change”.
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“I think everyone kind of carries around this sense that like yes, there’s racism, but like I’m at Yale”. Student demands include a just employment policy for campus workers who are now attempting to organize, divestment from Israel, campus police records on the racial and ethnic identity of students it interacts with to be reported on a yearly basis and programs to recruit students of color from Chicago high schools and to retain faculty of color.
