Tagged - Race
Race
Racial progress questioned
Students stood, raised their voices, and made clear their frustrations with UR’s racial climate and its handling of racial issues at last Friday’s Open Forum on Race and Diversity.
Race
Town hall meetings fall short, we need rapid change
After protesting and listing demands it seems that the University has responded with their usual passing of responsibility.
Race
We hear you, concerned students
The Diversity and Inclusion Committee, founded in 2006, brings together staff from all across the University community to discuss initiatives and events around race, ethnic and cultural diversity.
#OscarsSoWhite
With #OscarsSoWhite, we’re having the wrong debate
It’s reductive and rather unhelpful to cry foul at the exclusion of people of color if the performances don’t really warrant that reaction.
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President Seligman responds to student petition on race relations
“I cannot ignore evidence that our campus climate can be improved,” Seligman stated in an email following Friday's student protest, in which protesters gave him a list of demands.
BSU
Students protest ‘systematic racism and oppression’
At noon on Friday, Nov. 20, leaders of the Douglass Leadership House (DLH) , Minority Student Advisory Board (MSAB), Spanish and Latino Students’ Association (SALSA) and the Black Students’ Union (BSU) held a protest to express solidarity with the students at Mizzou and other universities “in their plight against systematic racism and oppression."
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Students meet with Seligman to discuss racial tensions
Students express concern that the University has not done enough to prosecute the authors of offensive Yik Yak posts.
