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If I was a student on that campus I would file as many complaints as humanly possible against costumes that we know they are not targeting but still fit the super vague and broad description of, "costumes that appropriate cultures and reproduce stereotypes on race, gender, sexuality, immigrant or socioeconomic status. Outfits relating to tragedy, controversy, or acts of violence are also inappropriate." Considering the nature of Halloween, this will cover 80% of all costumes since they included acts of violence. This **** has got to stop. People need to publicly show how stupid this is by making a complete mockery of it and pushing back hard when certain people are targeted over others when the complaints are substantially similar. You could show some very clear bias in the administrations decisions and bring some heat on them for facilitating censorship.
At Smith College, students now have access to an anonymous 24/7 bias hotline and online portal that can be used to report instances of bias, discrimination, and harassment.
The Sophian reports that EthicsPoint is a third-party service that is already in use at schools such as Amherst College, Tufts University, and Brown University, operating a 24/7 bias reporting system for incidents that do not merit a call to the police.
“The notion that students may report their peers for being ‘biased’ and holding different views is chilling.” Tweet This
“Unfair,” “uninvited” or “unwelcome” verbal or physical conduct, as well as “bigotry, harassment, or intimidation,” are among the behaviors that Smith invites students to report to the hotline
...Students at the University of California, Berkeley held a day of protest on Friday to demand the creation of additional “safe spaces” for transgender and nonwhite students, during which a human chain was formed on a main campus artery to prevent white students from getting to class.
The demonstrators were caught on video blocking Berkeley’s Sather Gate, holding large banners advocating the creation of physical spaces segregated by race and gender identity, including one that read “Fight 4 Spaces of Color.”
Protesters can be heard shouting “Go around!” to white students who attempt to go through the blockade, while students of color are greeted with calls of “Let him through!”
Students turned away by the mob are later shown filing through trees and ducking under branches in order to cross Strawberry Creek, which runs underneath the bridge.
This one is from last year, but it still kills me...
Target Facing Backlash Over ‘Obsessive Christmas Disorder’ Sweater Maya Rhodan Updated: Nov. 10, 2015 10:11 AM
The "OCD" sweater is currently on sale at Target stores
Target is marketing one of this season’s Christmas sweaters as “ugly” and some customers agree—but perhaps not for the reason the retail giant had hoped.
Target is selling a red “OCD: Obsessive Christmas Disorder,” sweater, one of a line of “ugly” sweaters designed for trendy holiday parties at which revelers don their dullest duds. But many consumers are upset by the message. Making light of obsessive compulsive disorder—which affects about 2.2 million American adults, according to the National Institute of Mental Health—they say, is not cute or funny.
AdWeek reports that Target is just one of a number of stores that are marketing the phrase this holiday season. A number of consumers also spotted “OCD” items at the restaurant Cracker Barrel.
In an email to TIME, a Target spokesperson said “We never want to disappoint our guests and we apologize for any discomfort. We currently do not have plans to remove this sweater.”
My takeaway is that we basically have a group of people whose lives and personalities are so bereft of distinguishing characteristics that they basically identify themselves as a minor mental disorder, and don't appreciate having that identity appropriated.
UT Young Conservatives' 'affirmative action bake sale' draws hundreds of angry students
Lauren McGaughy, Austin bureau Oct 27 2016
AUSTIN — Is this deja vu? Or is it 2013 all over again?
On Wednesday, the Young Conservatives of Texas club at the University of Texas at Austin held an "affirmative action bake sale" offering cookies at different prices based on the race and sex of the buyer.
A cookie cost $1.50 for Asian males, $1 for white males and 50 cents for African-American and Hispanic males. Cookies for American Indians of both genders were free of charge.
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The bake sale, which club members characterized as a protest against the "institutionalized racism" of affirmative action programs at colleges and universities, soon attracted a crowd of hundreds who lobbed criticism at the conservative students.
"Check your privilege!" they yelled as the club's remaining members volleyed questions from the crowd. The crowd began to disperse just after 2 p.m. when the remaining members of the group left to chants of "racists go home!"
The UT-Austin student newspaper The Daily Texan broadcast live from the event.
"Our protest was designed to highlight the insanity of assigning our lives value based on our race and ethnicity, rather than our talents, work ethic and intelligence," said club chairman Vidal Castañeda. "It is insane that institutional racism, such as affirmative action, continues to allow for universities to judge me by the color of my skin rather than my actions."
The same club came under fire in 2013 for holding a nearly identical bake sale — charging different races different prices for brownies. Gregory J. Vincent, UT-Austin's vice president for diversity and community engagement, called that bake sale "deplorable."
Vincent again spoke for the university on Wednesday, calling the latest bake sale "inflammatory and demeaning."
"Yet focusing our attention on the provocative nature of the YCT's actions ignores a much more important issue: They create an environment of exclusion and disrespect among our students, faculty and staff," he said.
Vincent acknowledged that the school's West Mall, where the bake sale was held, is an area where protests often take place and where free speech and the expression of diverse opinions on myriad issues is encouraged. But, while it was "their right" to hold the bake sale, he questioned whether the group's methods furthered the dialogue about race and privilege or simply sought to divide the campus along racial lines.
"In seeking an audience for their ideas, the YCT resorted to exercising one of the university's core values to the detriment of others," Vincent said. "Such actions are counterproductive to true dialogue on our campus, and it is unrepresentative of the ideals toward which our community strives."
UT-Austin has been at the forefront of the fight to uphold affirmative active in college admissions. Just this year, it won a years-long legal battle against a white female student who sued after she was denied admission to the flagship university.
She claimed she wasn't accepted because of the school's "holistic" admissions criteria, which look at students' various characteristics, including race. The suit went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the justices upheld the constitutionality of UT-Austin's admissions policy.
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