Posted on 08/28/2015 3:23:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The president of Bucknell University is urging students and staffers to do some soul-searching after someone left a racist message on a professor’s classroom door.
This is the second racial incident on campus in the past six months.
Students at Bucknell University in Lewisburg have been on campus for less than a week.
They’re just getting the news that a message described as racist and hateful was left on the whiteboard of professor’s office door.
But who did it?
“They do their things in secret so they don’t want to be known,” said student Alex Bloschichak.
“It’s so really hateful and I haven’t met anyone like that, that I know of,” student Nathan Ortiz said.
The news comes six months after the university kicked out three students for comments broadcast on the school’s radio station.
Those students used racial slurs and suggested African-Americans should be killed.
Bucknell Communications Director Andy Hirsch says this week’s incident will only intensify the university’s efforts to promote diversity and to take on intolerance.
“What we really want for all the members of our community is a safe and welcoming environment and this is counter to everything we’re working towards on that front,” Hirsch said.
University officials do not know right now who is responsible for that racist message. Several students say they hope the punishment is severe, if it’s a fellow student.
“Some sort of suspension, anything along those lines,” Ortiz said.
“Depending on the severity of the language, I hope they would get expelled if it was bad,” said Bloschichak.
Bloschichak is a freshman and says the school’s orientation included intense discussions of the value of tolerance and diversity.
Many are concerned that the actions of very few threaten the reputation of an entire campus.
If the message was misspelled, it was definitely, the professor, (as in CLUE), with chalk or magic marker, in the hallway.
My granddaughter is a student there——and yes,she’s a liberal.
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We`ve seen self imposed ‘acts of racism’ many time before! I call bull!
Why?
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