Protests On College Campuses

The University of Mississippi has its share of racial issues, which result in bad media coverage and lessening the number of diverse students even more. The University of Mississippi has recently had an incident involving race which ended with a protest and the voluntary withdrawal of a student. The use of the peaceful protest made the University become aware of the severity of the racial comment. The use of protests are to demand that colleges be aware and to demand punishment for the racial crime committed. Peaceful Protest usage seem to result in positive outcomes such as within the situation at the University of Missouri. This situation involved “racial inequality and the lack of action from university authorities” (Rhoden). The unfair treatment of a minority and lack of punishment for the racial matter caused the students to begin protesting. Regular students began protesting but with

Newspaper headlines and public forums demand educational reform with growing frequency. Race-sensitive admissions policies are often at the center of these debates. For example, according to the Los Angeles Times on March 21, 2001, the Los Angeles Community College district trustees are scheduled to vote for a resolution to support the University of California’s move to reinstate affirmative action in its admissions policies. This reinstatement has visible student support as seen in the March 15, 2001 rallies at the UC Regent’s meeting in which over 1,000 supporters of affirmative action came out to voice their opinion. This activity closely follows two other perceived victories for affirmative action proponents when two recent court

Racism is a controversial point that has been taking place in the United States since early times. This same point was affecting students in the University of Missouri since several months ago. The Missouri University’s president Timothy Wolfe has been accused of not taking action against the persistent racial epithets and actions in the university. After the biased demise of Michael Brown, by a white police officer, an abundant number of students and faculty members were inspired by this incident and held demonstrations and protests against segregation. However, the crucial impact that cause Wolfe’s retirement of his responsibilities as a President of the University was the Football boycott. The country’s most dominant college football league

As I watched the film, I was shocked and disturbed at the extreme measures that was taken to experiment on ways to get a person’s hearing back throughout history. The thought of putting someone in a plane and doing loops in the air brings out the fear in me, but putting someone that was deaf in the plane just because they were different from the hearing culture filled my head with sad and horrid thoughts. Even a child’s happiest moments, throughout deaf history, were used to try to “cure the deaf child.” What was supposed to be a joyful memory was constructed with a bad thought of trying to be changed. In the movie when Professor Robert Panera was talking about how his dad took him to meet Babe Ruth in hopes the thrill will get his hearing

Currently in the University of Missouri there are hundreds of black students protesting over what they believe is right. The university of Missouri has shown some sketchy behavior towards their students of color, which is causing racial tensions on campus. This sparked students into action; they have been protesting incidents that they believe were not handled correctly. These students took it in their own hands to speak out on the social injustice they have noticed in their school. It shows how university students are working with each other to work for the same cause that can benefit the whole school. The students are leading with integrity because they are fighting for something they believe for. They are speaking up for what they want to

At this time in the late 1950s, early 1960s, there were non-historically black institutions accepting African American students into their programs, yet the University of Mississippi remain firm in the proclamation of their resistance. As previous mentioned, the publication of the newspaper, Southern Digest, aided in this recruitment. In the examined periodical, the first page refers to the NAACP organization and the abbreviation of its name as glaring “forth in the same light as did the swastika symbolize Nazism; or as the hammer & sickle represents Communism” (Southern Digest, 1955). Students and faculty staff at the university are reading and interpret this anti-black mentality as purposeful and correct. Following the admittance of James Meredith, it is difficult not to associate this periodical and its proceeding publications with the riots and push back of the Oxford-University community. The periodical instructs its readers that the 5 letter of NAACP, which Till and Meredith were both members or affiliated with, “must be imprinted in the mind and remain ever present until the Constitution of the United States is no longer assaulted and ravished by political purpose, and until all question of enforced integration is dispelled” (Southern Digest, 1955). It continues in another article within the publication to

In addition to the psychological impact they face, African Americans are showing that they feel disconnected from their respective schools. At schools across the country, from the University of Missouri to Ithaca College to Stanford, minorities are conveying that implicit yet institutionalized racism creates an emotional distance between them and their white peers and staff. Many black students not only have to deal with institutional racism, but they also have to engage in academic and social environments that fail to recognize microaggressions (Green). Discrimination can make it difficult for students of color to engage with their campus in the way that their white classmates do. In addition, black students are tired of having white administrators

Thankfully there are many activist groups that are fighting for equality. At California State University the Black Student Union organized a school wide walk out show support for all the black students facing discrimination all across college campuses in the United States especially to the students in Missouri and Yale. Students all over the country have joined in on protests such as these to show support and to say that racism on college campuses will not be tolerated any

In modern days, there have been many reports on African-Americans who claim that they are unfairly treated at universities and that there isn’t any administrative responsiveness. Additionally, some say that the effort administrators are giving isn’t effective. Other students on these campuses say that the African-Americans are just overreacting and that the incidents aren’t that serious. In contrast, administrators claim that they are attending to the problems that these students have and that they are trying their best to find a solution to the problem. Racial hostility is when “someone or a group of people are prejudice towards people of a different

Over 100 universities had rallies and demonstrations. The article also highlights the different protests on fourteen different campuses across the country. Many of the students asked for equality on campuses, others asked that buildings be renamed, and for racial discrimination on campus to be addressed.

In modern days, there have been many reports on African-Americans who claim that they are unfairly treated at universities and that there isn’t any administrative responsiveness. Additionally, some say that the effort administrators are giving isn’t effective. Other students on these campuses say that the African-Americans are just overacting and that the incidents aren’t that serious. In contrast, administrators claim that they are attending to the problems that these students have and that they are trying their best to find a solution to the problem. Racial hostility is when “someone or a group of people are prejudice towards people of a different race, religion, or country” (Racial Hostility). According to black people, this is what they declare is a problem that they are facing today at their universities. The controversy over this situation comes to a question asking, “Are college administrators reacting to the racial hostility on campuses and is it effective? Over the past years, there have been multiple prejudice events that occurred, which is the reason why this controversy is in existence. One being at the University of Oklahoma, where white males were caught on video chanting racial slurs. Another one being at the University of Missouri, where officials were slow to handle racial incidents on the campus that contributed to protests, a student hunger strike, and a

All over social media, especially Twitter, the Missouri State football team announced that they would not play in any further games until the current President Tim Wolfe was to resign or be fired. The situation sounds harsh but the reason for it is there has been racism around the campus and no one is doing a thing about it. This protest has made a huge impact and attention to the school as well as the President. I believe that what they were doing as a team was very powerful. If I were the president I would have done things a little differently.

I have written a brief play addressing what’s happening on college campuses these days—campuses such as Yale and the University of Missouri. It would appear that institutions charged with the responsibility of teaching young adults academic content and critical thinking skills have discovered that radical politics and indoctrination are much easier to do and equally profitable. Apparently, offering extra credit in college for taking part in social justice protests has become popular in some quarters.

For this event paper, I decided to attend an informational protest here at Siena College. To bring awareness to domestic violence in our society, Siena College hosted the One Billion Rising Revolution in the Sarazen Student Union on February 12th, 2016. One Billion Rising is one of the biggest revolutions intended to end violence against women in the world. Many people around the world come together to express their opinions, dance, and rise up against domestic violence. At this event many different dance teams at Siena College were asked to send ten of their dancers to this event to perform. Out of twenty girls on the team, I volunteered to learn a short dance and perform it for a good cause. The One Billion Rising Revolution connects to the theme Diversity, and the article “Why Does Diversity Matter at College Anyway?” by Jeremy S. Hyman and Lynn F. Jacobs because they prove that diversity is important when bringing awareness to a certain cause, because it helps promote worldliness to understand the multiple perspectives and experiences of different kinds of people

Student demonstrations is in the press because institutions fail to acknowledge the experiences of marginalized students. Universities and colleges hate bad press. The student demonstrations that make the media are not single-isolated incidents. Campus administrators are aware of these frequent incidents that occur on their campuses. Unfortunately, higher education officials ignore these incidents on their campuses, and as a result incidents spiral out of officials control. Racism is systematic and institutional, college and university officials have to demonstrate to the student body that they are indeed committed to their mission statement of diversity. Higher education officials should provide campus healing to their students. In addition,