Posted on 04/01/2016 7:17:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
•Students took to Twitter to express their outrage and concern after 'Trump 2016' appeared written in chalk on their campus.
•Staff of the school removed the chalking because it had not been pre-approved with the school.
The University of Kansas is investigating pro-Donald Trump chalk that appeared on campus sidewalks Tuesday morning.
KU students took to Twitter this week to express their outrage over the political speech, saying they are troubled that some of their classmates are Trump supporters, and even comparing the chalk messages to the confederate flag.
The university said that they would have allowed students to chalk had they applied for approval, but allegedly had staff remove the unapproved chalking the day it was discovered.
Former student senator Shegufta Huma, however, argued that approval from the University is less important than the message itself, tweeting a photo of one chalking with the caption, “Is this the post-racial paradise folks pretend exists?”
“The issue isn't whether a student chalked or if it was approved,” Huma tweeted later. “The issue is folks in the KU vicinity support a racist, sexist demagogue.”
Nor were the students mollified when the KU News service pointed out that the chalking may have been done by someone from outside the school community.
“@KUnews does it matter? The presence of support is on campus, and that's enough,” KU student Brittany Bodenheimer tweeted in reply. “Almost more concerning if it wasn't a Jayhawk.”
Some didn’t like the University’s response to Huma, who was one of the first to complain about the chalk on Twitter. Rock Chalk Invisible Hawks, the group behind last semester’s on-campus protests, which included the harassment of a charity fundraiser, tweeted that KU should have denounced the “Trump propaganda,” and instead was “defensive.” They also suggested in a separate tweet that KU should “intervene.”
Bodenheimer tweeted that KU “plays down student concerns” and just pretends to listen.
The University does have a clearly-stated policy requiring prior approval for chalking, saying that “all other chalking is subject to immediate removal and the individuals or groups responsible may be charged the cost of cleanup.”
This comes just a week after a similar incident occurred at Emory University, which caused the school’s student government to allocate funds to help support students traumatized by the chalk.
Rock.....chalk.....
These “ students “ will pay us every dime or we will CRUSH THEM. NO BANKRUPTCY BITCH!!
Aw not this S$*$* again.
These college kids are traumatized by the mere sight of the name of Donald Trump????? Really????? These are our future leaders allegedly our best and brightest in college today????
God help us all.
I suggest drawing a snowflake.
With true stories like the Trump Chalk Trauma, April Fools has lost its charm.
Maybe they can call Nancy Graham to console them..
It's getting out of control, students. Seek Safe Space immediately!!!! #TheChalkening
And so it begins..........PING
Thanks K.U. I had been on a Muck Fizzou mood the whole week after watching this Documentary about the Mizzou Protest last Fall.
It is Truly Eye Rolling, BUT, A Must Watch for every FReeper, It's like reading the Communist Manisto, we must understand, so therefore, I recommend a watch: Field of Vision - Concerned Student 1950: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJLvMxVFdQ
vs now #TheChalkening
A Trump victory may clean the gene pool as the weaklings eliniminate themselves through excessive protests.
Replace the Trump chalking with:
“Hillary for Prison 2016”
see if that makes them feel better....
This is all so surreal, in every aspect.
Chalking? At a university?
Permits for chalking?
We have gone over the cliff.
I hope they head to Europe or Africa. Canada is too good for them.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheChalkening?src=hash
Better talk to Obama about that post racial paradise there snowflake.
He has made America more racially divided then ever.
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