Posted on 12/12/2016 9:54:44 AM PST by Red Badger
Students at the University of Pennsylvania removed a portrait of Shakespeare from a prominent location in the school’s English department after complaining that he did not represent a diverse range of writers.
The Department had previously voted to remove the painting, so students took matters into their own hands, replacing the portrait with one of an African American writer and delivering Shakespeare to the Department Chair's office.
Students at the University of Pennsylvania removed a portrait of Shakespeare from a prominent location in the school’s English department after complaining that he did not represent a diverse range of writers.
In fact, the chair of the department confirmed in a statement that the portrait was stripped from the wall by his students as “a way of affirming their commitment to a more inclusive mission for the English department,” The Daily Pennsylvanian reports.
Additionally, Department Chair Jed Esty explained that the portrait was “delivered” to his office and replaced with a photograph of Audre Lorde, a celebrated African American feminist and author, in a move that was in intended to send a message to Esty, whose department agreed to replace the portrait several years ago.
Esty went on to confirm that the portrait of Lorde will remain in Shakespeare’s place until he and his colleagues can reach an agreement on what to do next, announcing the establishment of a “working group” to help monitor the process.
According to a statement released by the school’s English department, the working group will help “declare and defend [its] departmental mission in the current political climate,” with Esty noting that the group will “initiate an open and collaborative conversation among students, faculty, and employees in English to come up with ideas for that public space.”
Notably, the school’s “Code of Student Conduct” explicitly prohibits students from “stealing, damaging, defacing, or misusing the property or facilities of the university or of others.”
Campus Reform reached out to the school for a comment on the matter, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
I guess the IRONY of that statement is lost on him and his erstwhile students................
Parents pay $51,000 per year to send their kids to this university. If you add it room and board, its more like $69,000 per year.
The swamps of academia need to be drained.
The greatest writer of all time gets his portrait removed... because he is a Dead European White Male.
Let’s hear it for liberal diversity!
As I’ve been saying...these are today Red Guards.
Trump needs to defund the education-industrial complex. No more government guarantees for tuition loans.
replaced with a photograph of Audre Lorde,
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Never heard of this person.
Obviously a great choice to replace the most well known author......./s
abolish the department, then abolish this university.... they are no longer fit to be associated with “higher education”
These little kids are getting too big for their britches!
That bastard! He was unable to change himself into something other than a white European. How hateful and racist of him!!
Why do these idiots not see that they are the racists? Oh wait...they’re idiots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde
Audre Lorde born Audrey Geraldine Lorde, February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was an African American writer, feminist, womanist, lesbian, and civil rights activist.
“Parents pay $51,000 per year to send their kids to this university. If you add it room and board, its more like $69,000 per year.”
Who in their right mind would pay $69,000 per year or almost
$280,000 for an BA in English?
How, exactly, does an “African American” writer “represent a diverse range of writers” any more than Shakespeare does?
“A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing the injustices ...”
He may have been gay. What a bunch of homophobes.
Not only are the Students at the University of Pennsylvania intolerant, they are extremely stupid.
5.56mm
It doesn’t, and thus, the irony...............
This asshole has NO business running anything.
Othello?
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