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Student Sues California University For $5 Million, Alleges Horrifying Racial Abuse

 

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When there can be this level of bullying at San Jose State University, a bastion of progressive thought, that should be a bellwether for everyone nationwide,” Douglas told Reuters.

 

“I want there to be a conversation started by the filing of this claim… there are issues of racial intolerance, of bullying and of harassment running rampant in universities and colleges across this nation,” he said.

University spokeswoman Patricia Harris declined to comment on the claim, which named as defendants the university, its president Mohammad Qayoumi, a school housing adviser and others.

Authorities said four white roommates taunted and harassed the student, who was 17 at the time, by displaying Nazi imagery and a Confederate flag in their dormitory and attempting to hang a U-shape bicycle lock around his neck.

 

The roommates, also students, referred to him as “three-fifths” or “fraction,” the claim said, in an apparent slur relating to the fact African American slaves counted as only three fifths of a person under an 18th century agreement between U.S. states to determine state population sizes.

 

The roommates barricaded him in his room, and threatened him with a golf club when they tried to locate a missing pet goldfish, the claim said. The harassment lasted from at least September 23 to October 31, 2013, it said.

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A Campus More Colorful Than Reality: Beware That College Brochure

The glossy images on admissions brochures don’t always paint an accurate picture of campus diversity — which could lead some students to show up at very different colleges than they’d imagined.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Click through to listen to the NPR report.

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When Images Of Diversity Don’t Match Reality

 

“The majority of schools, Pippert reports, “provided images of diversity” that were “significantly different than the actual student body.” In fact, the whiter the student body at a college, the more often images of minorities were featured in its publications.”

 
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First Nations teen told not to smudge before school

 

“The 17-year-old Manitoba teen lost a younger brother to suicide last year and he says smudging — the practice of burning traditional medicines — is one way that helps him cope with his grief.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

“it’s not that you did wrong, but that you’ll be perceived to have done wrong…” -Father of Jordan Davis

 

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The Bay Area’s Faculty Student Mismatch

 

“Below is a glimpse of data on the representation and diversity (or lack thereof) of university professors relative to student demographics in San Francisco Bay Area campuses. The article, White professors still dominate Bay Area colleges as student bodies grow more diverse, gives a bit more context to the issue. Unfortunately, this phenomena is not unique to the Bay Area. For a scholarly and feminist perspective consider checking out, Presumed incompetent: The intersections of race and class for Women in academia.

 

A very important issue as the representation of students of color generally, and Chicano/Latinos in particular, continue to rise.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Notice how the hiring of faculty is way out of proportion to the demographics of the student population. What do you think accounts for that?

Structural, institutionalized and personal favoritism?

Another way to look at this chart – if you combine the Asian and White groups together in the pie charts those groupings are then a fairly close match between the two columns of Faculty & Students.

 

Steven Riley, and others have mentioned that Asians are the next group that may likely ‘become white’ – in the way that Italians, Irish, Jewish, Middle Easterners and Egyptians have become culturally ‘white’ in the U.S. and on the census.

If you group Black and Latino groups together in the pie chart, the numbers also somewhat match between the faculty and students columns.

It’s also interesting to note that UC Berkeley is the only university to successfully hire a matching percentage of Black faculty compared to their student population.

@getgln

 

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