At MU charges of racism - without any evidence - have angered a small group of (black) students which transitioned into 30 black athletes of the university's football team to boycott playing until the university president resigned - which he did. Someone supposedly yelled the n-word at a group of black students on campus and drew a swastika made of feces in a bathroom. These incidents were brought to the attention of the president and he issued a statemnet for "further investigation" but that wasn't enough. Due to his "lack of action" a student staged a hunger strike and few others took notice and created the chaos that is currently happening. It doesn't help that several Missouri politicians have supported the resignation of this president. The language used to support this activism? "Healing," "family," "safe space," "inclusiveness" etc. It all sounds very communal. Of course Michael Sam made a cameo stating that "gay or straight" can fully back this type of activism.
Currently the football team has a losing season.
At Yale University, one of the most renowned and coveted institutions for higher learning, students at the residential college, Silliman College, are angered over an email of their House Master wrote, and his wife - the Associate Master - who supported, defending controversial Halloween costumes in the name of free speech and personal maturation. Her husband, who is a professor of sociology at the university, never said that he agreed with controversial costumes (e.g. black face, fake dreads) but clearly stated that the university should not control what the students wore on Halloween night; it was a form of censorship and that the university's way of combating controversial costume, though thoughtful and had the psychological well-being of the students in mind, was a poor attempt. He opted for the freedom to wear costumes that might make people offended, and with this offense would strike up a conversation between the wearer and the offended - face to face. It's confrontation in a civil manner that, with hope, each party would learn the other side's thoughts to become more aware of their mistake. The students of Silliman College were not pleased.
The Assoicate Master offered Sunday lunch to the offended with discussion but they declined. Instead DOWN (magazine for black Yale students) issued a petition, rather long winded, on how Silliman's House Master was out of line and how it invalidated Yale's minorities. The petition garnered over 740 signatures of current students, alumni and other students from various universities. The House Master's husband was willing enough to have a public talk in the college's courtyard. Bad move. The students surrounded him, arms crossed, and demanded an apology to the students he offended. One student said that if he were not to apology she'd leave; another urged the crowd to walk away and that the House Master did not deserve their time; an enraged student dropped her backpack, got into his face and said that he was unsuitable to be House Master due to him not creating a "home" for current Yale students - that his actions were urging several current Yale students to transfer.
Welcome to Yale.
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