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Mizzou Still Trying to Recover from 2015 Protests
Content from Sargon of Akkad - This Week in Stupid (16/07/2017)
Long After Protests, Students Shun the University of Missouri - NY Times
This is what happens when feelings are more important than actual education. Would YOU attend Mizzou? Would YOU send your kids there? I'm not sure what sane person would. I'm guessing that black people will take the school and turn it into a Black Only State University. White people will 1. Not want to go to that racist POS school and 2. Black people will discourage white people from going by claiming it's their school. After all, white people have every other school in the United States just like white people have 11 months out of the year. *facepalm*
Content from Sargon of Akkad - This Week in Stupid (16/07/2017)
Long After Protests, Students Shun the University of Missouri - NY Times
This is what happens when feelings are more important than actual education. Would YOU attend Mizzou? Would YOU send your kids there? I'm not sure what sane person would. I'm guessing that black people will take the school and turn it into a Black Only State University. White people will 1. Not want to go to that racist POS school and 2. Black people will discourage white people from going by claiming it's their school. After all, white people have every other school in the United States just like white people have 11 months out of the year. *facepalm*
COLUMBIA, Mo. — In the fall of 2015, a grassy quadrangle at the center of the University of Missouri became known nationwide as the command center of an escalating protest.
Students complaining of official inaction in the face of racial bigotry joined forces with a graduate student on a hunger strike. Within weeks, with the aid of the football team, they had forced the university system president and the campus chancellor to resign.
It was a moment of triumph for the protesting students. But it has been a disaster for the university.
Freshman enrollment at the Columbia campus, the system’s flagship, has fallen by more than 35 percent in the two years since.
The university administration acknowledges that the main reason is a backlash from the events of 2015, as the campus has been shunned by students and families put off by, depending on their viewpoint, a culture of racism or one where protesters run amok.
Before the protests, the university, fondly known as Mizzou, was experiencing steady growth and building new dormitories. Now, with budget cuts due to lost tuition and a decline in state funding, the university is temporarily closing seven dormitories and cutting more than 400 positions, including those of some nontenured faculty members, through layoffs and by leaving open jobs unfilled.
Few areas have been spared: The library is even begging for books.
“The general consensus was that it was because of the aftermath of what happened in November 2015,” said Mun Choi, the new system president, referring to the climax of the demonstrations. “There were students from both in state and out of state that just did not apply, or those who did apply but decided not to attend.”
The protests inspired movements at other colleges. Since then fights over overt and subconscious racial slights, as well as battles over free speech, have broken out at Middlebury College in Vermont, the University of California, Berkeley, and The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. Missouri’s experience shows how a conflict, if not deftly handled, can stain a college’s reputation long after the conflict has died down.
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