emory students don't feel safe

[stellarborg]

“I’m supposed to feel comfortable and safe here,” one student said. “But this man is being supported by students on our campus and our administration shows that they, by their silence, support it as well, I don’t deserve to feel afraid at my school,” she added.

A short time later, students moved into the Henry L. Bowden Board Room, surrounding the long table that dominates its center, the students themselves surrounded by portraits of Emory University’s former presidents.

“What are we feeling?” Peraza asked those assembled. Responses of “frustration” and “fear” came from around the room, but individual students soon began to offer more detailed, personal reactions to feelings of racial tension that Trump and his ideology bring to the fore.

“How can you not disavow Trump when Trump’s platform and his values undermine Emory’s values that I believe are diversity and inclusivity when they are obviously not something that Trump supports” one student said tearfully. “Banning Muslims? How is that something Emory supports?” asked yet another.

One student clarified that “the University doesn’t have to say they don’t support Trump, but just to acknowledge that there are students on this campus who feel this way about what’s happening, to acknowledge all of us here.”

Grievances were not restricted to shortcomings of the administration. “Faculty are supporting this rhetoric by not ending it,” said one student, who went on to say that “people of color are struggling academically because they are so focused on trying to have a safe community and focus on having safe space on campus.”

http://emorywheel.com/emory-student...h-administrative-response-to-trump-chalkings/

 

[SODACKER]

Chalkings? Like sidewalk chalk?

 

[oldshadow]

I don't care about crying temper tantrums, especially in those that are suppose to be long past them.

 

[dontsnitch]

Chalkings? Like sidewalk chalk?

"The president of Emory University has met with 40 to 50 student demonstrators who said they were concerned and frightened after someone wrote "Trump 2016" in chalk on campus sidewalks and some buildings."

 

[Gutter Chris]

Boohoo just because you disagree with something doesnt make you unsafe. Everyone's got the freedom of speech and expression including those you dislike and I wish more of these children would let that sink in.


I dont like nazis religious folks or republicans a whole lot but I dont want to shut them up I would rather openly tell them about why I dont agree in public. If I am feeling less feisty ignoring those that annoy me or make me uncomfortable also works really well


Live and let live is going extinct across the board and I find it most troubling

 

[SODACKER]

"The president of Emory University has met with 40 to 50 student demonstrators who said they were concerned and frightened after someone wrote "Trump 2016" in chalk on campus sidewalks and some buildings."

Ah, I started reading the article but the update with the schools response was too much to handle.

 

[HunterSdVa29]

41% of Emory's students came from private or charter schools. http://apply.emory.edu/discover/fastfacts.php

That diversity

 

[dontsnitch]

Ah, I started reading the article but the update with the schools response was too much to handle.

I got that from another article.

Here is a gem: "Other students asked for improving diversity in the “higher positions” of the University, including the Board of Trustees and the faculty in general who should not be simply “diversity sprinkles"...people of color are struggling academically because they are so focused on trying to have a safe community".

Someone writes Trump 2016 in chalk and the obvious reaction is to call for more people of colour to be hired, and to explain that this is why people get bad grades. The world has become an Onion article.

 

[2DUM2TAP]

Go to school, study, learn, take your tests and shut the Eff up.

 

[spin]

Can we just have one sticky 'college kids are bitches' thread?

 

[IDL]

Sounds like something organized by a few commissars.

 

[HunterSdVa29]

people of color are struggling academically, so let's pick people from that exact (apparently unqualified) group to lead us....

wait, what?

that's a horrible argument

 

[dontsnitch]

people of color are struggling academically, so let's pick people from that exact (apparently unqualified) group to lead us....

wait, what?

that's a horrible argument

I think you're giving them too much credit by taking their argument that far. What does a random "Trump 2016" have to do with black and white?

 

[lts5025]

The Emory University of old is gone.

First and Second World Wars
On April 6, 1917 the United States entered the First World War. Emory University organized a medical unit, composed of medical school faculty and medical alumni, that would be known as Emory Unit, Base Hospital 43. The unit served in Loir-et-Cher, France from July 1918 to January 1919. The Emory Unit, Base Hospital 43 was remobilized during the Second World War and served in the North African Campaign and Europe. To recognize Emory’s participation in the war effort, a ship was christened M.S. Emory Victory and served through World War II and in the Korean War.

In the 1940s, Emory University students, alumni, and faculty served in the Asia-Pacific War and European theater of World War II. Bobby Jones (golfer), served during the Battle of Normandy.[52] Dr. Alfred A. Weinstein, a professor of surgery at Emory University School of Medicine, was a prisoner of war of the Empire of Japan between 1942 and 1945. His memoir "Barbed Wire Surgeon" is considered one of the finest accounts concerning allied prisoners under Japanese captivity and highlights the abuses of the war criminal Mutsuhiro Watanabe.[53] Kiyoshi Tanimoto, who graduated from the Candler School of Theology in 1940 and is portrayed in John Hersey's Hiroshima (book), was able to organize the Hiroshima Maidens reconstructive surgery program based on the associations he made while studying in the United States.[54]Tatsumasa Shirakawa, a Japanese student at the Candler School of Theology, was placed under arrest temporarily until Dean Henry Burton Trimble negotiated his release. Emory helped the nation prepare for war by participating in the V-12 Navy College Training Program and Army Specialized Training Program, programs designed to supplement the force of commissioned officers in the United States Navy and United States Army. The Candler School of Theology trained men for military chaplaincy. During the war, university enrollment boasted two military students for every one civilian. Emory University alumni would go on to serve in the Korean War, Second Indochina War (Vietnam War), Persian Gulf War, Yugoslav Wars, and the Global War on Terrorism.

 

[tehend]

The Emory University of old is gone.

Shout out Bobby Jones. Dude was a bad ass.

 

[Yunes]

Go to school, study, learn, take your tests and shut the Eff up.

but they're scared...you must be a white male

 

[2DUM2TAP]

but they're scared...you must be a white male

I prefer to think of myself as a tax payer first.

 

[Tigerknee]

Do liberals really identify with these cry babies? jesus this is too much

 

[tehend]

Do liberals really identify with these cry babies? jesus this is too much

Turn off your mind and turn on your heart. Then you'll understand.

 

[dontsnitch]

but they're scared...you must be a white male

The irony is that people who are truly scared for their safety don't protest in public like this, making ludicrous demands after the most inane incidents. Obviously they've learned this empty language is effective, even if it's obviously untrue. "I'm scurred, give me stuff or else. And also, this is why I'm flunking out".

Now we get to watch the staff who helped created this beast dignify this with a response. It's the cherry on top.