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    gramercypoliceHamilton Nolan
    3/09/16 2:04pm

    Well, sure they do. They probably also think their Board of Regents is “diverse” because two of them wear glasses and one of them has narcolepsy.

    They’re usually the second-highest paid public employee in every state in the union, by a lot. After the football coach at the state university.

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      EvenBaggierTrousers4gramercypolice
      3/09/16 2:06pm

      Black head football coach = Campus race problems solved!

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      opiumsmabytchgramercypolice
      3/09/16 2:07pm

      Hey! Leave....narco....lrps......out of.......thizzzzz.......

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    JohannesClimacusHamilton Nolan
    3/09/16 2:09pm

    Race relations at my fancy liberal arts college were better than they were in any other context or institution in my life. Certianly not some egalitarian race free Shagi La, but nothing like what goes on at U Missouri. Identitarian politics reifies racism by being based on essentialist understanding of race, actually makes things worse. The notion that race or gender are legitimate bases on which to differentiate between humans is counterproductive. The idea that requiring black music majors at Oberlin to be proficient in music theory is racist, is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.

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      thataintpeeitssquirtJohannesClimacus
      3/09/16 2:12pm

      Wait for real was that a thing?

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      JohannesClimacusthataintpeeitssquirt
      3/09/16 2:21pm

      Yes. They demanded the firing of a guy who teaches theory and argued that requiring study of classical music and music theory as a part of the music major is racist.

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    PrettyLegitHamilton Nolan
    3/09/16 2:32pm

    To what degree is a college responsible for relations between students? Up to the point where anyone breaks the law, why is it their responsibility to deal with how the adults that attend interact? Colleges aren’t daycares. Something the “safe space” crowd seems to have lost sight of.

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      Crispin WaughPrettyLegit
      3/09/16 2:38pm

      Under Title IX, colleges and universities have a legal responsible to provide a safe and equal learning environment for their students, so, to that end, there is a real responsibility. Title IX doesn’t require that everything come to a screeching halt anytime one person’s feelings get hurt, but it does allow for schools to lose access to federal funding if they fail to properly address ongoing problems to the point that it becomes a ‘hostile environment.’ Just like your workplace isn’t responsible for making sure that every interaction with your coworkers is cheerful but they are on the hook if Bill from accounting gives you a smack on the ass everytime he walks by and your boss doesn’t do anything to fix it.

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      Mo12PrettyLegit
      3/09/16 2:41pm

      This... a college like mizzou can’t instantly change a guy who grew up in the rural ozarks. Most of the world has idiots, ignore them and move on. It isn’t hard. I’ve had people look at me strange when i dated a hispanic girl, and i couldn’t have cared less. I knew we both were into each other and that was all the validation i needed.

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    Fresh Courage TakeHamilton Nolan
    3/09/16 2:04pm

    The survey found that presidents did seem to be aware of the frustrations of minority students onother presidents’ campuses.

    NIMBY = Not Involving ‘Merica’s Beloved Yale.

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      puncha yo bunsFresh Courage Take
      3/09/16 2:06pm

      Hey. You’re coming for my alma mater there ;)

      This basketball captain sexual assault situation is very disconcerting, though.

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      Fresh Courage Takepuncha yo buns
      3/09/16 2:07pm

      Has that been confirmed yet — that he committed a sexual assault? (On Jezebel, it surely has. LOL.)

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    reggieinatlHamilton Nolan
    3/09/16 2:04pm

    We all know racism is over. We have a black president. We all have at least one black friend. Slavery and Jim Crow all happened in the Old Testament. Racism? Nah. Problem solved.

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      EvenBaggierTrousers4reggieinatl
      3/09/16 2:07pm

      Did you know Chris Rock hosted the Academy Awards? It’s true! We truly do live in wondrous times...

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      puncha yo bunsreggieinatl
      3/09/16 2:08pm

      Don’t come at any Trump supporters with that sarcasm. Any mention of race in any form makes YOU the racist, presumably because they’ve lost their goddamn minds.

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    flamingolingoHamilton Nolan
    3/09/16 2:17pm

    Harper recalled something that happens frequently when he and his colleagues are talking to students on campuses and create focus groups of people of different races and ethnicities.

    “We’ll ask white students which groups of students are likely to feel like they most belong here, and they get confused and say, ‘Everyone feels like they belong here,’” Harper said. “Meanwhile, in the very next room, someone on our team is talking to black women who are literally crying while talking about how difficult it is to be there.”

    Some of those white students, Harper said, “grow up to be college presidents who never really learned to understand the realities of race on their campuses, who never learned the real experiences of students, faculty and staff members of color.”

    That squares with recent findings that white people in general seem to think racism has largely been fixed and that, in fact, anti-white racism is a growing problem. The numbers, of course, are basically flipped when minorities are polled.

    Whites are living in their own reality—that’s how a guy like Donald Trump can become a viable national candidate.

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      ncoliphantflamingolingo
      3/09/16 2:22pm

      White people can live in their own reality because it’s the only reality that matters to them. Minorities don’t have the same benefit.

      Like, if race relations never get solved or steadily improved, it won’t affect the lives of white people in the slightest.

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    CryptidHamilton Nolan
    3/09/16 4:41pm

    This is not exactly surprising, but I bet that these same university presidents imagine that the junior faculty has high job satisfaction and that the going rate for adjunct labor is fair. The president is the last person on a college campus who understands anything about quality of life. These guys schmooze the potential donors rather than engaging substantively in daily operations; optimism and strategic ignorance are part of that toolkit.

    A survey of deans, faculty, and undergraduate advisors would produce a more accurate picture of just how stupid colleges are about diversity. Still pretty stupid, I don’t doubt, but let’s look at the people whose jobs demand that they engage with student life.

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      Baltimore Ham ScamCryptid
      3/10/16 9:34am

      exactly ..the President of my college lived in a old Victorian Mansion on campus, Schmoozed at cocktail parties and did basic presidential stuff..he knew nothing of race relations on campus and that exactly how he/they want it...Why would anyone think the President of a uni would be doing anything else but acting as a money making figure head.

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    igotwordsHamilton Nolan
    3/09/16 4:00pm

    It’s amazing to me, that after all these years black people and their serious concerns and problems still like the dinner party guest that people thought left an hour ago.

    “What? You’re still here?... I’m so sorry I didn’t even-”

    “Yeah it’s wierd, you guys ate, and I’ve been on the couch the whole time. I figured eventually you’d invite me to the table but-” (something in the kitchen falls.)

    “Susan, put that down, that’s for guests...” walks off abruptly.

    “-but you just kept ignoring... me.”

    “Oh! Jamal your still here? I thought you... I thought you left.”

    “Yeah, I was just telling your wife that, and my name isn’t Jam-”

    “Oh hi, Ted!” walks of oblivious of the human being he was just talking to.

    “Why do I keep coming to these things?”.

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      tedgeyigotwords
      3/09/16 4:57pm

      You got words alright

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    Ed SpockHamilton Nolan
    3/09/16 2:11pm

    I tend to agree with the Presidents’ positive views about the race relations.

    The white and Asian students at the college I went to got along fine.

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      Ron Paul is a pathetic jokeEd Spock
      3/09/16 2:14pm

      That’s easy for you to say. Many, many Asians have experienced walking into a university library and having no one look at them. It’s a very, very painful feeling.

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    carpetboxerHamilton Nolan
    3/09/16 2:16pm

    If we rounded up all the bloated administrators and sent them to an island, to borrow a thought experiment from Matt Taibbi, they would all face certain death.

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