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Rutgers Freshman Victimized by Insufficiently Diverse Mascot
Coach is Right ^ | 5/18/15 | John C. Velisek USN (Ret.)

Posted on 05/18/2015 8:42:32 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax

According to the Rutgers Daily Targum, freshman Emmet Brennan helped author a bill “…to create black, Latino, Asian, and third-gender mascot friends to accompany the school’s original “Scarlet Knight” mascot adopted in 1955.” “Our mascot does not represent how diverse we are as a school,” decided Brennan after he “…noticed the mascot’s fair skin and blue eyes while working as a press box server during the university’s football games.”

Katie Park, writing for the Daily Targum, tells her readers:

After taking issue with the mascot’s complexion, Brennan began collaborating with student Mohamed Asker who currently serves as the SA’s student affairs chair. Asker is also a member of the Arab Cultural Club and assisted Brennan in drafting the bill.

Although the bill passed the SA, Brennan said there “were some concerns over the mascot possibly being offensive if it wasn’t done properly.” To assuage those concerns, Brennan consulted with the university’s black, Latino, and Asian cultural councils and has encouraged his peers to contribute to the process of creating diverse mascot friends.

“What we were really hoping is that this would be a discussion with the entire student body,” Brennan said. “So we would have a working committee of the different multicultural [groups], possibly the Queer Caucus — basically students who represent a unique voice, and have them all working together at the same table to make sure red flags that arise with any of those groups — that mascot would immediately be tabled.”

According to Brennan, the decision to create additional mascot friends rather than eliminate the current Scarlet Knight stems from his expectation that some alumni and administrators would be reluctant to replace something so traditional.

“There’s always going to be people who complain, but I think we won’t receive that much pushback because...

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TOPICS: Education; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: diversity; highereducation; hypersensitivity; leftismoncampus; mascot; queercaucus; rutgers; scarletknights
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1 posted on 05/18/2015 8:42:33 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Oldpuppymax
Suggested new mascot for Rutgers.

Ru Paul. Then can change the name of the mascot to Ru Tgers.


2 posted on 05/18/2015 8:50:28 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Oldpuppymax
Suggested new mascot for Rutgers.


3 posted on 05/18/2015 8:52:03 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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After taking issue with the mascot’s complexion, Brennan began collaborating with student Mohamed Asker who currently serves as the SA’s student affairs chair.

Okay. Let me see if I got this straight. Your student affairs chair is named Mohamed and your troubled by the way the mascot looks?

Yeah. I think you've got bigger issues.

4 posted on 05/18/2015 8:53:45 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Oldpuppymax
There is a guy that constantly posts on message boards "Anti-racist is code for anti-white".

He is correct. And white people are leading the charge. You really have no idea the level of contempt I have for self haters like this, no matter their age. I DESPISE little dickboys like Emmet Brennan and what he has done to this country, and what he has allowed to have done to himself.

5 posted on 05/18/2015 8:54:06 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
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To: Oldpuppymax

When liberals in college have nothing better to do.


6 posted on 05/18/2015 8:55:00 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
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To: Oldpuppymax
Suggested new mascot for Rutgers.


The Chartreuse Knight

7 posted on 05/18/2015 8:58:23 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Oldpuppymax
I would expect nothing less from ROTgers.

Any university who lays claim to its quadrangle being called red square gets what it deserves.

8 posted on 05/18/2015 8:59:41 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Texas Eagle
How about a diversity twofer?:


9 posted on 05/18/2015 9:04:06 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Oldpuppymax

Some people just need a good whack with a two by four.


10 posted on 05/18/2015 9:13:27 AM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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The mascot from my alma mater, R'lyeh U, will CONSUME this little fag-boi's Teletubby knockoff "mascot" and it's pals.


11 posted on 05/18/2015 9:25:14 AM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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Any university who lays claim to its quadrangle being called red square gets what it deserves.

I went to Rutgers and don't remember anywhere called "the red square". What quadrangle are you talking about? Which campus?

This idea died a violent internet death the moment it was announced. The pissy liberals who think up such nonsense rarely grow into financially contributing alumni, who were close to universally opposed.

12 posted on 05/18/2015 9:47:42 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Rutgers can solve this problem very easily by simply never again allowing Emmet Brennan to work as a “press box server” at sporting events... ...ever.


13 posted on 05/18/2015 10:25:44 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Texas Eagle
What about the RUTGERS ZEBRACORNS? A Zebracorn is half zebra and half unicorn, asexual with magical flying powers. That way they would be magical, and you could keep 'em guessing about whether they be white with black stripes, or black with white stripes. I drew this one myself: zebracorn photo: Zebracorn zebracorn.jpg It took, me, like five hours to get the shading right.
14 posted on 05/18/2015 10:28:25 AM PDT by golux
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F’taghn!

F’taghn! F’taghn! F’taghn!

F’taghn!


15 posted on 05/18/2015 10:29:42 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Oldpuppymax
I don't remember anyone ever having the time to worry about such things when I was in college.

-PJ

16 posted on 05/18/2015 10:30:01 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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Newark campus


17 posted on 05/18/2015 11:10:43 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Oldpuppymax
the Queer Caucus — basically students who represent a unique voice

IOW, no one but her little Queer Caucus has a voice in how the school operates. That's not very inclusive, it is Katie? How about a diversity of voices telling you to shut up and go home?

I can only imagine the courses she's taking that won't get her a job later and that she's one of those who take the bare minimum 9 hours. I saved my parents money by buckling down to graduate in 3 years. I took 18-21 hours every semester with after hours practices and an internship and worked p/t so didn't have time to worry about such pressing matters as the mascot's eyes.

18 posted on 05/18/2015 11:17:11 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Oldpuppymax

Not having been around for the Middle Ages I can’t be sure, but I suspect that there were few knights of other than the white European persuasion round!


19 posted on 05/18/2015 11:36:30 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: dead
I went to Rutgers and don't remember anywhere called "the red square".

I too went to Rutgers and do not recall any such place. Maybe it's the spot outside Paul Robeson's dorm room.

20 posted on 05/18/2015 12:58:02 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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