Free Speech and Creepy Liberalism

i mean, "theme houses" (or "theme hallways" or whatever) are one thing. we had a "womanist" house at my alma mater that comprised all af-am women. but overtly racially segregated housing--that's not at the very least yoked to some kind of collective cultural activity-- seems very, very dumb. but maybe the media hasn't represented this fairly??

it's apparently by demand, classed as an academic community, and has the usual microaggression/safe space rationale. perhaps you recall

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/06/black-grad-student-on-hunger-strike-in-mo-after-swastika-drawn-with-human-feces/

from around the time of the mizzou protests

Greek groups have done that (selective group housing) for decades, basically centuries now. Strikes me as a welcome table turn.

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/letters/dorm-for-black-students-is-segregation/

(re. similar situ at u-conn)

also, as far as i know, in the post-civil-rights era, greek orgs are not officially (or practically, in most cases) whites-only

at UW there are a few af-am frats (and possibly sororities); most of the other frats seem only mildly integrated

Yeah no Greeks aren't integrated for shit, anywhere in the country.

Casually referring to fraternity and sorority members as "Greeks" is confusing as hell.

just saw a movie where some mild mirth is gotten out of a jew being "president of the greeks"

Aimless, this is a thread about American college campus issues. Maybe it wasn't at first, but at present, that's the context.

http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/09/help-food-insecure-employees/

this is obviously written from the perspective of some kind of nonprofit org mindset but still

is

- don't pay a starvation wage

in the list

that's a negative

but there are lots of techniques for being more sensitive to their concerns!

https://medium.com/@ethnicstudies198/an-open-letter-to-the-uc-berkeley-administration-regarding-academic-freedom-1bf60c9a040e#.b4zy83fk8

The decision to suspend Ethnic Studies 198: Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis is a violation of our academic freedom. This is an alarming development to have transpire on the same campus that not only hosted the Free Speech Movement, but which also routinely claims and utilizes the same Movement’s legacy to market itself as a world-class institution, a bastion of tolerance and diversity, and the site of intellectual inquiry — inquiry that is sometimes discomforting, but always enriching. Your decision constitutes nothing less than an act of discrimination against students who wanted to debate and discuss this contentious issue in a spirit of genuine sincerity, mutual respect, and open-minded curiosity.

i thought it sounded like shit from the course description but what i really wanted to know is since when do colleges offer classes for credits taught by undergrads? that's bullshit.

Oh, this is the first time I'm hearing about this DeCal business. That is bizarre, you're right.

i was involved in the program and had friends who were. they're only for a few credits and don't count towards core or departmental requirements, so they're really extra fluff around the edges and have a loooong history at cal going back to the 60s. also giving undergrads an opportunity to organize and teach is a good thing imho.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/09/do-i-have-to-call-my-co-workers-boyfriend-her-master.html

i dunno the ground seems pretty shaky here

Shakey Co mollifier

Lol

“will your master be at the end-of-summer barbecue?”

man this one has it all: trump, vandalism, protests, adminstrative support of free speech in abstract, safe spaces, mention of a "bias incident team"

http://www.mndaily.com/article/2016/10/protesters-gather-to-oppose-mural

do they have one of those little golf carts like the people who refill the dry erase markers and reboot projectors

sadly article does not mention 'collge republicans'

Paul Blart: Bias Incident Cop

has this li'l detail made it into media? from a campus email ~to which i am privy~

Next to the panel for a Latino-based multicultural fraternity was the painting “Build the Wall” by another student group, the Minnesota College Republicans.

phrased with strange passivity as well

he condemned the vandalization of the painting and said the campus supports all types of free speech

a painting

fuckin john singer sargeant over here

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/arts/pen-warns-that-college-students-often-see-free-speech-as-a-cudgel.html?mwrsm=Facebook

http://www.theonion.com/article/college-encourages-lively-exchange-of-idea-38496

more 'free speech incidents' around here

david horowitz group puts up posters specifically naming students & faculty active in BDS as hamas supporters

http://alphanewsmn.com/poster-campaign-university-minnesota-claims-student-group-front-hamas/

(note -- this website is right wing but it does reproduce the posters which other sites aren't doing)

muslim student association sign defaced with "isis"

http://www.twincities.com/2016/11/03/umn-isis-washington-avenue-bridge-vandalism-muslim-student-association-panel/

both in the last 48 hours

the U's administration has condemned both

apparently horowitz pulled this stunt on a bunch of campuses this week. what a creep.

hamas' puppeteering skills must be next-level

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/sports/harvard-mens-soccer-season-canceled.html

Sure this is the right thread for this, j?

i'm sure you'll tell me either way

You think sexual harassment is a free speech issue?

you think this was sexual harassment?

How on earth is this not?

i think victims of harassment have to know it's going on?

if my own college exp is anything to go by (lo these many years past) frats and men's sports teams putting together 'bang books' like these is pretty common! can't really fathom the impulse to, like, systematize, write down and then publish your locker room talk. but then again i stayed out of locker rooms entirely until i was in my 30s.

this almost exact thing happened when i was in (small private liberal arts) school. a photocopy of something like this, pics and ratings and comments, leaked. it was a big school controversy but iirc nobody really got punished? maybe some kind of forced apology, then a campus workshop day on women's issues. cancelling the team's season is awesome, shows some guts from the administration.

there is the odd practice of punishing kids within a sport for non-sports related infractions they did -- which leads to some really messed up thinking if the acts become criminal. like, thanks for victimizing me, your 4 game suspension or w/e doesn't really address my life at all.

xp so it's only a problem when people don't know about it?

i think you mean 'do', and obviously that doesn't follow. the question is what 'it' is.

It's not really non-sports related, it was fellow members of the soccer program they treated this way.

j., read the damn article that you posted, the people in the "book" did have knowledge it was going on.

beyond that, the idea that knowledge of it could have been contained and remain is so laughable as to be totally moot

xp four years after the fact