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Mizzou Racial Tension
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brewmama
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Not me.
I live in Minnesota. We are being taxed to death! Inner city High Schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul are rife with assaults and the downtown areas have become too dangerous to visit at night.
When the tail wags the dog the dog becomes ineffective. Now the students get to determine how the University must be run? Apparently they know more than the administrators? One wonders where this shall lead?
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
apparently they wanted Wolfe to use his Super University President powers and create a world in which morons who shout racial slurs don't exist, ever, anywhere
and then they wanted him to fill the football stadium with chocolate ice cream and give them spoons
Alate_One
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They felt he wasn't responding to their problems. And as a university president if students come to you during a time of crisis, you need to "feel their pain" above all. He wasn't able to do that.
I think that particular statement was simply the straw that broke the camel's back after weeks of inaction in response to a variety of incidents.
Recognizing a problem and at least attempting to do something would have helped. Our college's president staged a "listening post" for students when they administration heard student complains about (non-racial) problems. That's what he should have done at the very least.
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
don't have the time to go back and look, but i remember that he did start some processes, he did respond to their complaints
Alate_One
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A very long term process.
And it wasn't completely about race either, The Chronicle has a great summary.
It has nothing to do with Missouri. They are just easy pickings living in their little bubble of reality.
I wonder how many of the football players are paying toward their college education? Are they there on scholarships? If so, do they attend class and must they maintain a passing grade to continue in the program?
Or do athletics rule the roost because they bring in revenue?
:think: Coddled, pathetic, whiney progressives protesting coddled, pathetic, whiney bigots.
Totally.
lain:
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/n...cle_0c96f986-84c6-11e5-a38f-2bd0aab0bf74.html
Skepticism and suspicion based on what?
Here are some of the 8 demands:
Is that the training that Loftin talked about and they were skeptical and suspicious about? Is the only difference that it's run by a black board?
What % are they at now? Has there been any evidence of racial discrimination in hiring? Why should Wolfe agree to a 10% requirement? What is the 10% based on? What will they do if the next President doesn't agree to the 10?
Are they? I'm not so sure. They apparently weren't ok with the long term process that you said Wolfe had come up with.Chronicle article said:
I'm not saying there aren't problems on the MU campus and it does seem like Wolfe could/should have been more responsive, but I feel like this is a situation in which emotions are running hot and there is a group calling for heads and throwing out demands because they just want something done, not necessarily because the demands are reasonable.
:think: Coddled, pathetic, whiney progressives protesting coddled, pathetic, whiney bigots.
Totally.
Indeed and now the football team is running the campus.
What person in his/her right mind would continue to financially support such an institution?
It isn't my world. You think God is wrong? Interesting.
The Berean
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I wonder how many of the football players are paying toward their college education? Are they there on scholarships? If so, do they attend class and must they maintain a passing grade to continue in the program?
Or do athletics rule the roost because they bring in revenue?
They are probably on scholarship and I suspect many of them were accepted to the university mainly because they can play football.
are you ok ?
The Berean
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It's amazing how you jump to extremes. Like EVERY right wing institution is fine and dandy. Plus all the other jumps you make, like the fact that I never even insinuated God is ever wrong. ludicrous :rapture:
God is right, politically. That is the point. The opposite of right is both left and wrong. And maybe you didn't know, God is extreme.
