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Hampshire Students Demand ?Diversity,? Segregation...

According to this report in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Hampshire College students walked out of class today to protest the administration?s ?insufficient commitment to fighting racism.?

Among other things, the students were calling for additional faculty and staff positions in multicultural affairs, mandatory ?anti-oppression training? for all employees, and residence halls exclusively for students of color and for ?queer-identified? students.

If Hampshire College administrators, faculty, librarians, secretaries, janitors, etc., have been oppressing anyone, I?m all in favor of someone teaching them how to stop. But maybe someone could explain to me how racially segregated dorms will increase ?diversity.?

If ?queer-identified? students deserve a dorm of their own, what about ?straight-identified? students? Shouldn?t they be able to have a dorm of their own, i.e., one that excludes ?queer-identified? students? Moreover, shouldn?t there be separate dorms for black ?queer-identified? students and Hispanic ?queer-identified? students? Without such separate dorms, those students would be forced to reject one of their core identities. And let?s not forget the Jews....

Full post as published by Discriminations on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).