Posted on 10/04/2016 11:14:37 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Yanking a scholarship wouldn’t fly for various reasons. Just disallow their taking the field if they won’t perform the anthem.
Ban them from playing the field for one year. Actions have consequences.
I’m happy with that response, and a “don’t do it again if you want to remain in the band” seems like the appropriate level of discipline. The awkward wording and grammar are about what I’d expect from a music department, and it doesn’t bother me at all.
If only the NFL dealt with the issue in this manner...
“Being within an hour of the beach doesn’t help with the dedication part, ...”
Is Greenville really only an hour from the beach? Many years ago, I drove through there en route to the Outer Banks, and it seemed like it took forever (3+ hours). Maybe the roads have improved dramatically.
Leni
I guess I exaggerated a bit, should have said under two hours, to Atlantic Beach.
Considering that the Chancellor backed up the protesters, I think the reader should have written "I will stop writing checks", rather than "what if I stop writing checks?".
May as well send the checks to BLM.
Greenville is the city where the blacks petitioned a mostly white street with stately old gorgeous homes to be renamed MLK Blvd.
These houses are so beautiful and the street is lined with huge trees that form a canopy over the street just behind ECU. They purposefully chose this street to stick it to the man and thankfully, didn’t get their way.
I was raised in Greenville and when I was 6, the black boys who were bussed in, would rub their pelvises up against us white girls and nothing was done. The anger and hatred I feel directed at me and my color keeps me far away now.
That being said, the chancellor needs to be run out on a rail.
If the Board is upset fire the Chancellor. That sends the right signal. If the interim does not shape up fire that person. This is not an issue of academic freedom.
“Yanking a scholarship wouldn’t fly for various reasons ...”
If a football player refused to enter a game because he didn’t like a specific play, or a TA refused to teach a discussion section because she didn’t like a particular textbook chapter, I think it would be grounds for revoking the scholarship or assistantship. I know state-supported schools like ECU are held to a different standard for the exercise of 1st amendment rights, but as an employee of such an institution, I am certain that my 1st amendment rights do not include the right to refuse to perform my assigned duties.
My earliest memory of Greenville from childhood, passing through on the way to the beach, was thinking that it was awfully messy with all that trash blowing around. It wasn’t trash, it was cotton bolls, not that it looked much different from a distance.
I don’t remember cotton but I do remember tobacco. There were fields and fields of it all around and all of my male friends would pick tobacco in the summer. We grew up with tobacco barns behind our house where the leaves were hung up to dry.
They’ve been told these protests won’t be tolerated anymore. The band was booed. Most other colleges probably would have let the band members continue to kneel.
Agreed. Suspend the band members. Suspend donations to ECU until they do something.
I meant UNC Graduate :>)
Fire the school teachers that put them up to it.
The grownups ceded control of American Universities when American Universities stopped being educational institutions and became businesses. Businesses with the sole purpose of financing the lifestyles of (what used to be known as) teacher and administrators. Now, they’re terrified to displease entitlement brats because they’re afraid of reduced cash flow.
if they are on the band, they must play the music as prescribed and they follow all protocols as far as behavior and demeanor...or just GO...we don’t want you...
It may be more innocent than it appears. Perhaps the kids had intestinal issues from that lousy Eastern NC style BBQ?
it shouldn't have anything to do with the military or the police....
our anthem is about we citizens...
they are dissing the citizens...
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