I sent this email below to: may@mc.edu which appears to be the contact for administrative issues.
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have read with dismay your treatment of Jeremy Rawls, a veteran who has served our country and is attending your institution.
I am told he was a veteran of two tours of combat duty in the Middle East, and after he was assigned to a muslim woman who was non-secular enough to wear a hijab, he requested for a non-muslim counselor. Given his situation, I would expect he would be treated with a degree of understanding and respect.
However, I read that not only did you did not honor his request, but instead made him the focus of the issue and restricted his access to the campus and to classes.
You apparently chose the pursuit of diversity and the feelings of a counselor over the mental well-being of one of our veterans which is bad enough, but is even worse considering that mental health professionals should understand the harmful potential of approaching an issue like this in this fashion. The patient/person should come FIRST.
If what I have read is true, you should be ashamed of yourselves. You should reinstate this student, and provide him with the help he needs to aid his full re-integration into society. I hope to hear going forward, that you do just that.
We OWE this, and more, to men like this. We may disagree with the use of military force and how it is used, but there should be NO disagreement whatsoever that we as Americans OWE our veterans better treatment than this man has encountered at your institution.
I suggest that we spread this contact info around so we can let them know how much we disagree with the treatment of this veteran.
Obviously, veterans don’t deserve the protection of “triggers”.
That privilege is reserved for trust-funded emo-hipster Millenials.
I don’t agree that a private university has a duty to re-integrate a PTSD into society.
By today’s college language, the counselor they sent him to was a ‘microagression’ that violated his ‘safe space’. It would be hypocritical of me to attack the minorities and feminists that complain of such and defend a grown man who is so fragile.
His situation would better be discussed in the context of VA staffing and funding.
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have read with dismay your treatment of Jeremy Rawls, a veteran who has served our country and is attending your institution.
I am told he was a veteran of two tours of combat duty in the Middle East, and after he was assigned to a muslim woman who was non-secular enough to wear a hijab, he requested for a non-muslim counselor. Given his situation, I would expect he would be treated with a degree of understanding and respect.
However, I read that not only did you did not honor his request, but instead made him the focus of the issue and restricted his access to the campus and to classes.
You apparently chose the pursuit of diversity and the feelings of a counselor over the mental well-being of one of our veterans which is bad enough, but is even worse considering that mental health professionals should understand the harmful potential of approaching an issue like this in this fashion. The patient/person should come FIRST.
If what I have read is true, you should be ashamed of yourselves. You should reinstate this student, and provide him with the help he needs to aid his full re-integration into society. I hope to hear going forward, that you do just that.
We OWE this, and more, to men like this. We may disagree with the use of military force and how it is used, but there should be NO disagreement whatsoever that we as Americans OWE our veterans better treatment than this man has encountered at your institution.
Dear Sir,
We encourage you to enroll in our college immediately.
We'll get y'alls mind right, we guaran-damn-tee it.
Yours,
Mississippi Reeducation Camp.