Posted on 02/27/2014 5:08:33 PM PST by Altura Ct.
A group of disgruntled students at Dartmouth College sent an 8-page protest letter to leaders of the Ivy League institution Monday calling for reparations for what they claim is the school’s oppressive and racist atmosphere – and threatened “physical action” if their demands are not met.
The list of demands, written by “concerned Asian, Black, Latin@, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently-Abled students,” include:
• Racial enrollment quotas for Black and Latino students to “at least 10 percent each”
• “Ensure that 47 percent of post-doctoral students are people of color”
• “Ban the use of ‘illegal aliens, illegal immigrants, wetback’ and any racially charged term”
• Mandate cultural competency and sensitivity training for professors
• “Ask staff/faculty to use students’ and employees’ preferred gender pronouns”
• Enroll more students in the country illegally (undocumented students); and provide them free legal assistance and financial aid
• Convert ethnic studies programs into full-fledged departments
• Incorporate into each department at least one queer studies class
• Increase the interdisciplinary academic focus on sexualities
• Enact curricular changes to force students to study social justice and marginalization in depth
• Provide gender-neutral bathrooms in every building on campus
• “Create a policy with serious consequences against hate speech/crimes”
• Create a policy penalizing and discriminating against students who use the Indian mascot
• Require school’s conservative paper give up “Dartmouth” name if they use term “Indian”
Enacting these changes and the many others listed on the lengthy demand letter, its authors stated, will “eradicate systems of oppression as they affect marginalized communities on this campus.”
“These systems–which include racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism—are deployed at Dartmouth and beyond as forms of institutional violence,” the letter states. “We demand that Dartmouth challenge these systems by redistributing power and resources in a way that is radically equitable.”
The unnamed students go on to assert that by March 24 – the first day of spring term – Dartmouth administrators must publicly respond to each item raised in the letter with “its exact commitment to each one of its demands” and that reparations that require funds “have a monetary commitment in the 2014-2015 fiscal budget.”
“If the Dartmouth administration does not respond by the indicated time, those who believe in freedom will be forced to physical action,” the letter states. “As mentioned before, this proposal is not about interpersonal interactions, but about restoring justice in an institution beset with a history of discriminatory and oppressive practices.”
The letter does not specify what “physical action” will be taken.
The students called their reparations a “freedom budget,” and CC’d a copy of their letter to every student at Dartmouth College.
HA....you’re right....sucks to be a Lefty school....you get attacked by Lefty commies! Enjoy it, suckers!
“Ensure that 47 percent of post-doctoral students are people of color”
Hehe. I’ll not read anything into that number
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Oh Yeah....Good catch....
I wonder if they can muster up 47% of the graduates to stay in Hanover NH for another 3 or 4 winters?
But they did include the Asians but they are probably already 45% (dependent on the ratio).
OR they will have to throw some of the Asians out to get down to 47%....
I don’t really think the ‘organizers’ have thought this out. So, what else is new?????
But at least (seeing as it fits) they are including Asians as ‘people of color’
I’d tell them that my response to threats is the same as always. “Go F Yourselves.”
Right on! Tomorrow we be America's new PhDs in mafematics.
“Incorporate into each department at least one queer studies class”
How do you do queer math?
It would be hilarious if the administration arranged a meeting to discuss the demands with the protesters. Get the protesters to admit that the letter was theirs. After that is done, then the university president could announce "that person is the corner is agent so-and-so of the FBI (or state bureau of investigation, as appropriate) who is here to arrest you on the charge of extortion. This isn't your biggest concern right now but you're also expelled. That concludes our meeting."
Of course, this would never happen but it would be great if it did.
Expel them for inciting violence.
Problem solved.
Dear Malcontents, EAT SH*T!
Some people are proud of the fact that they haven't learned a thing in forty years.
“If the Dartmouth administration does not respond by the indicated time, those who believe in freedom will be forced to physical action,”
Kick them out of the school and arrest these racists.
Demographics is destiny.
For instance, those who aren't on meds, or forced to use elevators, etc. - and discriminating against it - is ableism.
Rather foolish, really. (Where calling someone wheels might have been a fun joke is now considered ableism. (Or using the words retard or dummy.
don’t like the rules, you can hit the bricks.
the university didn’t get to where it is with people like this steering the ship
I have reached the point where I think a little “physical action” to put these imbeciles in their place is in order.
We need a quota system in education in order to— wait, we tried that.
Time to re-establish education as he goal of higher, uh, education.
These kids have too much time on their hands. I wonder how many of them are getting a free ride.
all the complainers
The letter is Exhibit A of their premeditation to commit crimes.
Ask staff/faculty to use students’ and employees’ preferred gender pronouns”
With the ever-expanding list of genders, this defeats the purpose of pronouns.
How do you do queer math?1 in the same = Rainbow
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