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On November 2nd, a Mizzou graduate student began a hunger strike in protest of a series of racist incidents that unfolded this fall at the university: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...th-human-feces/ Washington Post[/quote posted:
Since November 2nd, other students have joined in the protest, picketing around campus, holding sit-ins, etc. Late last night, the Missouri Tigers football team released a statement, accompanied by a photo of team members linking arms with Butler.   Earlier today, Mizzou coach Gary Pinkel tweeted a photo of the entire football team linking arms, reading "The Mizzou Family stands as one. We are united. We are behind our players."  The Tigers are next scheduled to play BYU on 11/14. Earlier today, the protesting students (including but not limited to the football players) released a list of demands, which include the resignation of the university President Tim Wolfe:  Wolfe has thus far said he will not resign but will do [some bullshit]. Discussion on Facebook and Twitter has emerged under the hashtag #ConcernedStudent1950, a reference to the year that Mizzou was integrated.  developing
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Just going to put this here for more background:alpha_destroy posted:I have been debating for days whether or not to post about this in this thread. Everything about the situation at Mizzou is a loving poo poo show at the moment. At the beginning of the semester Mizzou gave graduate students something ridiculous like less than 72 hour notice we were losing our health insurance. Then they tried to take tuition waivers away from grad students working quarter time, which of course, disproportionately harms humanities departments. Then the student body president got called a friend of the family on campus, which the chancellor took something like 6 days to respond to. Then the Legion of Black Collegians got called niggers by a student while they were organizing their homecoming protest. Then the Chancellor ended our relationship with Planned Parenthood that had let med students perform clinical hours at PP and gave PP doctors clinical privileges at the University Hospital, which was the only thing that allowed them to perform abortions in Columbia. Then someone drew a swastika in one of the dorms in feces. Columbia's Yik-Yak right now has a bunch of hilarious jokes like "how do you starve a friend of the family? hide his welfare check under his work boots." I also saw a picture of a monkey being distributed as a picture of Jonathan Butler, the student on the hunger strike. Yesterday, morning djs were debating whether or not they should send Butler Taco Bell. Oh yea! I forgot, the LBC protested the homecoming parade by stepping in front of the president's car. His driver promptly revved his engine continuously and bumped two of the students. Oh ya! and during one of the marches in the wake of the student body president being called a friend of the family some white kid was yelling about how it was a violation of his free speech for the black students to hold a rally in the speaker's circle and not let him blare techno music over them. Anyway, the point is everything about this school is super hosed up right now. I have hope that JB will actually succeed in his hunger strike though. Partially because of this video of our wonderful president supposedly after allowing protesting students to be sprayed with sprinklers. This dude is totally unfit to run a university. There is no way the curators are not forced to face this fact. Hopefully.
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JRizzle posted:Just going to put this here for more background: Thanks! I definitely don't have everything worth reading or knowing in the posts above, but will edit things in to the second post as stuff unfolds, so please keep adding. Here's a visual timeline of many of the issues laid out in the post you quoted. Petey fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Nov 9, 2015 |
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Nov 9, 2015 02:26
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Here is a form letter if you're an alum and want to send a message expressing your disapproval for the current administration
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Nov 9, 2015 02:39
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Today, the Graduate Forum for Student Rights called for a 2 day walk-out. This is the second grad student walk-out this year, although the first was only for an hour.
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Nov 9, 2015 02:51
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This is why Gary Pinkel is often called the 2nd best coach in the NCAA.
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Nov 9, 2015 02:51
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Hm, so will they forfeit if this isn't settled by Saturday?
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Nov 9, 2015 02:52
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Peven Stan posted:Here is a form letter if you're an alum and want to send a message expressing your disapproval for the current administration I'd love to but I'm not a Mizzou alum proper, just UM system (Missouri S&T). Good luck to the protestors, I didn't realize how bad it had gotten up at Columbia. Here's to hoping they dump Wolfe and get an actual good president this time. They've mostly sucked since Floyd left for Wazzu.
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Nov 9, 2015 02:53
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D-D-D-DOUBLE POSTkayakyakr posted:Hm, so will they forfeit if this isn't settled by Saturday? Mizzou will have to forfeit and pay BYU $1 million, unless BYU decided to acknowledge it and do some kind of mutual forfeit. Which I'm sure would totally happen. Like, totally.
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Nov 9, 2015 02:56
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How much of this crap is actually the college president's fault and how much is he in the crosshairs because he makes a nice symbolic target? I'm seriously asking because I didn't know poo poo about Mizzou before this story.
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tranime scholar posted:I'd love to but I'm not a Mizzou alum proper, just UM system (Missouri S&T). Good luck to the protestors, I didn't realize how bad it had gotten up at Columbia. What up S&T bro!  You could easily tweak the letter. I mean, Wolfe is president of the whole system, so he is president over S&T as well. ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:How much of this crap is actually the college president's fault and how much is he in the crosshairs because he makes a nice symbolic target? That is an interesting question. Where should the buck stop if not the president? Besides, even if he is not out there causing these problems with malice aforethought, his response has been absolutely shameful. Bumping protesting students. Waiting days/weeks to make statements. Telling protesting students that "systematic oppression is because you don't believe that you have the equal opportunity for success." Even if these events are not his fault, his response has been loving dreadful.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:How much of this crap is actually the college president's fault and how much is he in the crosshairs because he makes a nice symbolic target? Sounds like he's lovely to grad students and has a conservative viewpoint which also makes him a political target, although if he's really siccing his driver on protesters and trying to run them over then yeah he's probably a dick. Although I'm not sure why they would expect him to make a grand apology before resigning. Good luck with that one. Mulaney Power Move fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Nov 9, 2015 |
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Nov 9, 2015 03:02
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tranime scholar posted:I'd love to but I'm not a Mizzou alum proper, just UM system (Missouri S&T). Good luck to the protestors, I didn't realize how bad it had gotten up at Columbia. I don't think the black experience at Mizzou is that much different than at a lot of universities, regardless of whether they (the unis) want to believe it. As an alum, I'm happy that Mizzou students and student-athletes are stepping up and doing something about it.
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I read somewhere that some guy who was a student-athlete there before saw some poo poo he'd rather not talk about, and he supported Wolfe gone, so I'm inclined to think where there's smoke, there's fire. Glad effective protest is happening for once.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:How much of this crap is actually the college president's fault and how much is he in the crosshairs because he makes a nice symbolic target? Can also confirm that long rear end post. Life in Columbia is hosed up right now. The university and president is a dick to students and the Chancellor is a dick to the faculty. Everyone is miserable. There is an emergency boc meeting scheduled, so president is probably gone really soon.
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How is this happening in like the only liveable city in mid Missouri?
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BigSexyWitGlasses posted:How is this happening in like the only liveable city in mid Missouri? Exactly, mid-Missouri. alpha_destroy posted:What up S&T bro!  MinersYeah, I'm thinking about it. I'm really tired of lovely UM system presidents and assorted bullshit like this going on. Also, I guess this would be the place to ask: is Bowtie a huge rear end in a top hat too? I got the impression that the students liked him but I could be (and probably am  ) wrong.
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BigSexyWitGlasses posted:How is this happening in like the only liveable city in mid Missouri?
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I'm a Columbia native, can confirm this is a shitshow. Sure can't wait to have the national media descend on us like a bunch of goddamn vultures. Wolfe could stop being a selfish rear end in a top hat and just resign, and I hope he does. If Butler dies from this hunger strike things are gonna be ugly as gently caress
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The billboards along I-70 from St. Louis to Columbia are some hilarious and sad poo poo. You haven't lived till you've seen anti-evolution billboards.
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tranime scholar posted:The billboards along I-70 from St. Louis to Columbia are some hilarious and sad poo poo. You haven't lived till you've seen anti-evolution billboards. God's said many a thing to me via billboard on my drives between Austin and Lubbock.
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tranime scholar posted:The billboards along I-70 from St. Louis to Columbia are some hilarious and sad poo poo. You haven't lived till you've seen anti-evolution billboards. The billboards are the best part about driving in Missouri. Pinkel cancelled all practices until this is resolved.
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kayakyakr posted:God's said many a thing to me via billboard on my drives between Austin and Lubbock. Like I've seen tons of goofy religious poo poo on billboards but there's something extra funny to me about someone spending a bunch of money to put gently caress SCIENCE signs along a highway. I kind of like the 6 in a row owned by the university that go M-I-Z-Z-O-U though. 
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Feranon posted:I'm a Columbia native, can confirm this is a shitshow. Sure can't wait to have the national media descend on us like a bunch of goddamn vultures. He'll pass out and the EMTs and doctors are required to save his life. He'll be fine but it's still jarring enough that it should warrant action.
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tranime scholar posted:The billboards along I-70 from St. Louis to Columbia are some hilarious and sad poo poo. You haven't lived till you've seen anti-evolution billboards.
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Feranon posted:I'm a Columbia native, can confirm this is a shitshow. Sure can't wait to have the national media descend on us like a bunch of goddamn vultures. I think I'd save my hunger strike for a bit higher stakes.
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tranime scholar posted:The billboards along I-70 from St. Louis to Columbia are some hilarious and sad poo poo. You haven't lived till you've seen anti-evolution billboards. You haven't lived until you've seen them in Oregon.
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Frackie Robinson posted:I think I'd save my hunger strike for a bit higher stakes. Yeah and I think the football team's boycott would be more effective on a year they weren't a loving joke.  Gotta do what you gotta do I guess
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:How much of this crap is actually the college president's fault and how much is he in the crosshairs because he makes a nice symbolic target? Was it like this at Mizzou before? The guy going on the hunger strike makes a statement which reads like this didn't happen before this guy was president, which I doubt it true.
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I'm going to hunger strike until Valve gives us some straight answers about Half Life 3
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Sounds to me like he's targeting humanities programs/grad students for budget cuts and holds conservative viewpoints so they're using racism as an excuse to try and get rid of the guy. Here is a vid of the car thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6zwnmlzZSQ Not real sure what to make of that.
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alpha_destroy posted:That is an interesting question. Where should the buck stop if not the president? Besides, even if he is not out there causing these problems with malice aforethought, his response has been absolutely shameful. Bumping protesting students. Waiting days/weeks to make statements. Telling protesting students that "systematic oppression is because you don't believe that you have the equal opportunity for success." Even if these events are not his fault, his response has been loving dreadful. What happens after he resigns, though? From the statements, it sounds like there's been earnest movement for mandatory campus sensitivity training, and that sounds like it'll happen with or without Wolfe at the helm, so hopefully that'll curb some incidents, but if it's the town proper and its non-student residents driving around hurling slurs, this doesn't seem all that productive
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computer parts posted:You haven't lived until you've seen them in Oregon. I'm sort of jealous of states that ban them. The Ozarks are too beautiful to ruin with a bunch of bail bonds billboards or whatever the gently caress.
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Ribsauce posted:I'm a little confused also. I read all the stuff in the first 3 posts and am unsure what the President did(only about the racism, not the health insurance for grad students or planned parenthood or any of that). Like the swastika in the bathroom...did he just not condemn it? Or a single "inebriated white male" yelling racial slurs...same thing? Taking too long to make a statement? Or is there more to it than that? I guess his driver revving an engine at a protester is directly his fault, but what else regarding the racism is actually his fault? I'm just curious if there is more to it than a slow response. Based on the post J rizzle posted he sounds like he probably should not be in charge anyway. If he was in charge of my University I'd be happy enough to see him go just based on the Jrizzle post. "26.4 percent of People of Color reported experiences of harassment on campus. The reports occurred at a rate higher than statistically predicted as due to chance." https://diversity.missouri.edu/about/climate/ Going to crosspost some context from the D&D thread: quote:Unlike it's more sophisticated (but no less evil) cousin Washington University in St. Louis, the people who run the UM system are too loving stupid to comprehend how a R1 university should be run and how to even say the right things when stuff like racial tension blows up on campus. That diversity course requirement has been proposed since 1990 and shot down until now. They only acted on it within the past month or so due to a sit-in protest at Jesse Hall and loud protests in the main student center in front of everyone, including prospective students.
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tranime scholar posted:Exactly, mid-Missouri. Wife works for the former graduate school, Bowtie is a colossal shithead and did his best to throw the graduate school under the bus on the health care thing even though the email detailing what was going down sat in the provost's inbox for over a month before anything was done about it. Also, look for a letter with a bunch of tenured faculty's signatures calling for his resignation in the near future.
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As an example of a previous President, here's a piece about Elson Floyd: http://digmo-01.missouri.edu/a/89465/the-floyd-factor/ Granted, he had a lot of problems, but his interactions with students were a lot better.
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Peven Stan posted:Washington University St Louis Just curious why Washington University is no less evil... Almost wound up going there if it wasn't for out of state tuition (TTU, UT, Washington University in St. Louis, and Colorado School of Mines were really the only schools I did any research into. TTU won out pretty early in that process.)
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Frackie Robinson posted:I'm going to hunger strike until Valve gives us some straight answers about Half Life 3 youre gonna loving die dude
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opt posted:Wife works for the former graduate school, Bowtie is a colossal shithead and did his best to throw the graduate school under the bus on the health care thing even though the email detailing what was going down sat in the provost's inbox for over a month before anything was done about it. Also, look for a letter with a bunch of tenured faculty's signatures calling for his resignation in the near future. Oh, he's the one responsible for the grad student benefits fiasco? Yeah, gently caress him then. Mike_V posted:As an example of a previous President, here's a piece about Elson Floyd: http://digmo-01.missouri.edu/a/89465/the-floyd-factor/ Floyd was the last good president of the UM system. Probably because he actually cared and wasn't just some empty suit corporate shithead like Forsee and Wolfe are.
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