http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-college-race-20151117-story.html

I'm linking to this article because the man in the foreground happens to be a good friend of mine, and this brought up on Facebook.

After several days of protesting Occidental College's handling of diversity issues, students occupied an administrative building Monday, demanding that the school president step down if officials don't take such steps as creating a black studies major and hiring more minority faculty.

The actions come after weeks of student protests throughout the nation, including at the University of Missouri, where the president and chancellor resigned, and Ithaca College in upstate New York and Yale University. The dean of students at Claremont McKenna College stepped down last week after a campus protest and hunger strikes by two students over her email to a Latina student saying she would work to serve those who "don't fit our CMC mold."

Student leaders at USC voted last week to ask school officials to increase funding for diversity training and to hire more minority faculty. On Monday, school officials announced they would fund more diversity efforts and appoint staff to increase awareness.

"Universities should be spaces committed to showing the promise of diversity and helping everyone recognize, appreciate and respect difference," Michael W. Quick, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, wrote in a letter to the USC community.

Two new funds of $100,000 each will be established to support campus programs to enhance understanding of the issues. The funds will be administered by student government organizations and the religious life office.

At Occidental in Eagle Rock, students have been protesting the administration's handling of complaints about racism on campus and the lack of diversity. Last Thursday, a crowd of students held a demonstration that ended in a march at President Jonathan Veitch's campus home.

[...]

After a rally on the steps of the school's main administrative building Monday, several hundred students entered the Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center. They have presented school officials with a list of 14 demands they want met by Friday, including the creation of a black studies major, an increase in funding for minority student groups and more diversity training for faculty and students.

If their demands are not met by Friday, students said, they will demand Veitch's resignation.

[...]

In the 1995-96 year, 44% of non-international Occidental students reported that they were minorities. This year, about 42% of students said they were minority or multiracial, according to school statistics.

Several Occidental students said the school's diversity was one of the main reasons they decided to attend, but that after they arrived they found the climate on campus was often hostile to minorities.

Bhola, a senior diplomacy and world affairs major, said many students seemed insensitive to minorities. During one classroom discussion, some of her peers discussed how the Rwandan genocide was "timely" for political reasons.

Rwandans' "suffering didn't seem to mean anything," Bhola said.

As always, I encourage you to read the full article.

I don't have cable news so I'm kind of out of the loop, so if anyone aware of the situation or someone who has seen at their university could chime in: what's the complaint here? In the article they listed two examples of supposed racism: one where a student made a stupid comment about Rwanda, and another about a disaster/apocalypse party at a frat.

Chance Ward, a black sophomore who majors in critical theory and social justice, said that he has been called the N-word at campus parties. And when he and another student, a white female, complained to a department head that a professor wasn't following the syllabus, the department head criticized him but not the other student for complaining, Ward said.

"I came here because I thought there would be a foundation [of diversity] to protect you," he said. "But administration did not protect me."

Look, college doesn't exist to coddle you through an education, it's supposed to challenge your preconceived notions of how the outside world works and prepare you for the workforce. I hope some of you can shed light on what the actual problem is, because a lack of a black studies major and an increase in their diversity training budget (at a very diverse, liberal school) seems below the need for protests.

I'm totally against universities doing racist shit, but it's not racist to not offer a black studies major. Complaining about that is like walking into a coffee shop and protesting when they don't serve your preferred tea.

Also, I wouldn't really have a problem with their grievances if they weren't so fucking malicious about it. Calling for the resignation of university officials because you have a personal problem with them and protesting in libraries and places of study is such an infantile way of getting your points across.

It honestly wouldn't surprise me if the cultist fervour of BLM was partially fuelling this.

that would be such a terrible major anyway

i mean
i'm not one to judge, but

damn

Liberalism is a mental disorder

Quote from: Mordo on November 17, 2015, 11:48:17 AM

:^)

based dawkins

"If you pay to go to a public school, you can't complain if you face institutionalized discrimination"

Yeah, what a guy

Quote from: ObamaLover69 on November 17, 2015, 11:52:26 AM

Quote from: Mordo on November 17, 2015, 11:48:17 AM

:^)

based dawkins

"If you pay to go to a public school, you can't complain if you face institutionalized discrimination"

Yeah, what a guy

Not offering is very niche subject as a major isn't discrimination.
Occidental is also a private school.

Quote from: DAS B(⌐■_■)ﾒ on November 17, 2015, 03:28:11 PM

Quote from: Cindo on November 17, 2015, 03:25:57 PM

Quote from: ObamaLover69 on November 17, 2015, 11:52:26 AM

Quote from: Mordo on November 17, 2015, 11:48:17 AM

:^)

based dawkins

"If you pay to go to a public school, you can't complain if you face institutionalized discrimination"

Yeah, what a guy

Not offering is very niche subject as a major isn't discrimination.
Occidental is also a private school.

Not saying it is, but he's doing the "le ebin free speech, no safe spaces" shit. Nothing to do with majors.

Free speech should be the most cherished right of any free nation.

Quote from: Cindo on November 17, 2015, 03:25:57 PM

Quote from: ObamaLover69 on November 17, 2015, 11:52:26 AM

Quote from: Mordo on November 17, 2015, 11:48:17 AM

:^)

based dawkins

"If you pay to go to a public school, you can't complain if you face institutionalized discrimination"

Yeah, what a guy

You guys really need to stop throwing around terms like 'institutionalized discrimination' where there is none, because all it will ever end up doing is denigrating actual cases of institutionalized discrimination.

The university didn't offer what these idiots were looking for. Boo fucking hoo. They either have a choice of bucking up and choosing something else, or moving to another university that have the major they want. Crying wolf and throwing temper tantrums accomplishes nothing.

'Institutionalized discrimination' fucking lmao. Anything to establish a victim status for these people.

jfc

Nobody's talking about the fuckin' major. Who gives a shit about the fuckin' major?

Quote from: Mordo on November 17, 2015, 03:44:25 PM

Quote from: Cindo on November 17, 2015, 03:25:57 PM

Quote from: ObamaLover69 on November 17, 2015, 11:52:26 AM

Quote from: Mordo on November 17, 2015, 11:48:17 AM

:^)

based dawkins

"If you pay to go to a public school, you can't complain if you face institutionalized discrimination"

Yeah, what a guy

You guys really need to stop throwing around terms like 'institutionalized discrimination' where there is none, because all it will ever end up doing is denigrating actual cases of institutionalized discrimination.

The university didn't offer what these idiots were looking for. Boo fucking hoo. They either have a choice of bucking up and choosing something else, or moving to another university that have the major they want. Crying wolf and throwing temper tantrums accomplishes nothing.

'Institutionalized discrimination' fucking lmao. Anything to establish a victim status for these people.

jfc

Nobody's talking about the fuckin' major. Who gives a shit about the fuckin' major?

the protesters
kek

Quote from: Cindo on November 17, 2015, 03:56:16 PM

Quote from: Mordo on November 17, 2015, 03:44:25 PM

Quote from: Cindo on November 17, 2015, 03:25:57 PM

Quote from: ObamaLover69 on November 17, 2015, 11:52:26 AM

Quote from: Mordo on November 17, 2015, 11:48:17 AM

:^)

based dawkins

"If you pay to go to a public school, you can't complain if you face institutionalized discrimination"

Yeah, what a guy

You guys really need to stop throwing around terms like 'institutionalized discrimination' where there is none, because all it will ever end up doing is denigrating actual cases of institutionalized discrimination.

The university didn't offer what these idiots were looking for. Boo fucking hoo. They either have a choice of bucking up and choosing something else, or moving to another university that have the major they want. Crying wolf and throwing temper tantrums accomplishes nothing.

'Institutionalized discrimination' fucking lmao. Anything to establish a victim status for these people.

jfc

Nobody's talking about the fuckin' major. Who gives a shit about the fuckin' major?

the protesters
kek

The point on the major is so far-removed from the primary point of the protests that I literally hadn't even heard that point brought up until today.