Evergreen State College President Gives into Demands of Leftist Student Protesters

Breitbart ^ | May 29, 2017 | TOM CICCOTTA

[lowbridge]

The president of Evergreen State College has announced he will comply with the demands of students who protested professor Bret Weinstein, who refused to participate in a campus event where white students and staff were asked to leave school grounds.

Although Evergreen President George Bridges announced that progressive professor Bret Weinstein wouldn’t be suspended, Bridges announced that he would comply with the long list of demands that the students brought before him.

“I’m George Bridges, I use he/him pronouns,” he began, before stating that he would comply with most of the student protester’s demands.

Bridges went as far to say that he would increase the school’s efforts to fight discrimination in response to the demand that Weinstein be suspended for refusingto participate in the school’s annual “Day of Absence,” in which, this year, all white community members were asked to leave campus for the day.

“We must increase our capacity to investigate instances of alleged discrimination,” Bridges said. “Therefore, we have decided to increase the college’s Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Officer to full-time today. In addition, if we need to hire outside investigators, we will.”

Bridges praised his students, calling them “courageous” for voicing their concerns. He expressed a commitment to meeting most of their demands, claiming that “together we can reach them.”

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[Islander7]

I’m binge watching Band of Brothers.

What the hell happened?!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Another “solution” in search of a “problem”.

[Fungi]

So it was never about “diversity” was it?

[ptsal]

Fire the college president.

[squarebarb]

I can’t believe that these left-dominated colleges do not have their enrollments going way way down.

[Rome2000]

The South lost.

[Mark]

Thank them and then spike the university fees 50%

[CaptainK]

Since the 1960s the leftest colleges and universities spawned these safe space/pajama boy tyrannical students.

The all deserve what they get.

[dfwgator]

Do any alumni from there actually get hired?

[miss marmelstein]

The President should be tarred and feathered!

[Flick Lives]

Evergreen State College. Mark it down. Another college that will be out of students and out of business in a few years, and rightly so. What parent would pay to have their own child subjected to such abuse.

[CaptainK]

Tuition paying parents and students paying are starting to avoid the loony left colleges:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article152939139.html

[beebuster2000]

you know what? they can run their school any way they want to.

the question is: who the heck would want to go there and why? I mean what kind of education do you expect to get white or black?

[nicepaco]

Do you think they will ever be able to find a verified incidence of discrimination?

I can think of a fairly obvious and well documented one that will be overlooked.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

I'm surprised that they have a male, white heterosexual as president. Seriously.

[beebuster2000]

so i answered my own question, who would go? i guess if you are a state resident it is cheap, the state picks up the tab. from the website:

Evergreen’s tuition is about $6,500 per year for Washington state residents and about $24,000 per year for nonresidents. By contrast, undergraduate tuition at a private liberal arts college can exceed $49,000 per year.

[dfwgator]

Any resume from a graduate of Evergreen, goes straight into the shredder.

[Secret Agent Man]

Some people rralize hey are doing us al a favor by doing this, socwe do not have to be surprised ad throw good money down a liberal sh1thole.