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The Common Type Of Conflict At Indiana University

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Indiana University is home to nearly fifty thousand students and ten thousand faculty members, all of who spend time working, living, or interacting with each other within the confounds of a 3-square mile campus. With so many individuals operating in such a small vicinity, there is likely to be a significant amount of conflict. I would guess that the most common type of conflict at Indiana University is student to student conflict. While I have not personally had any major conflicts with another student, I have friends who have told me of their own. My Residence Assistant during my freshman year, Andrew, was a homosexual, African American man, and he was routinely antagonized on campus. He told me once about a student in one of his classes who would always make snide comments about his sexuality and the color of his skin, and how the student would wait for Andrew at the door after class just to belittle him. I thought this was preposterous and that something needed to be done, but Andrew informed me that he gets treated like this all of the time on campus, and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Among the other types of conflict that I have witnessed at this university are between students and staff members. I would say that the most common type of issues in the student-faculty category are between professors and students. Personally, I have had an issue with a professor who gave me a low grade on a paper that I did not think I deserved. She always gave us the

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