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.
Some years ago I was a graduate student at the University of Arizona. Several student groups were demanding protection and an end to harassment of a new group: the academically disinclined.
That explains the stoicism ;)
Awesome! I hope there’s terrible violence and suffering that results from all this. Seriously, the more the better. Let the liberals reveal themselves.
Dartmouth is cold and NH is very white. What “minority” student would want to freeze up there?
If memory serves, Dartmouth was founded to provide native Americans an opportunity for a university education Native Americans can still attend free
This seems like more of a cry for attention than a valid protest
Enroll more students in the country illegally...
So, it's OK to say they're illegal, but it's not OK to call them illegal. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
No, no, no...pop the popcorn and enjoy the show. Dartmouth is a POS leftist institution. They deserve a taste of their own medicine.
In fifteen years when Dartmouth has the same reputation of many 'historically black colleges' (groups that 'over compromised their standards) these radicals will move on to a University that maintained high standards - and demand the right to receive a degree from THAT college. That said, like you I hope Dartmouth gives in to these demands and becomes marginal at best... they've earned their fate.
Is that anything like Chinese arithmetic?
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