Posted on 11/09/2006 8:42:50 AM PST by CharentonChina
A group of black students at Indiana-Purdue University-Indianapolis is threatening to sue the college over alleged discrimination.
The IUPUI Black Student Union said it would file a lawsuit Monday unless officials agree to provide a new black cultural center, more black faculty and $78,000 for black student groups.
The group also wants sensitivity training for administrators and an undergraduate degree program in African-American studies.
"We're not asking for anything outlandish," said IUPUI senior Dominic Dorsey, 24, who heads the group. "We're asking for what's due to us to make us feel comfortable on a Euro-centric campus."
In a nine-page letter delivered to administrators this week, the group complained that officials turned down black students' requests to use a student activity fund and that some white officials have been disrespectful to black students.
It also complained that black students were not consulted before the Mary Cable Building was torn down this year to make room for a parking lot. Cable founded the Indianapolis chapter of the NAACP.
However, not all blacks on campus feel discriminated against. Freshman Nashunda King, 18, said she feels more comfortable at IUPUI than she did at her predominantly white high school in Avon.
"I like this environment," she said. "Everybody gets the same treatment. To me, it's fair."
IUPUI officials have made racial diversity a top goal, aiming to boost the school's minority student enrollment from 15 percent to about 18 percent. Officials also want to boost minority graduation rates at the 30,000 student campus.
"People are working hard to make IUPUI a diversity-positive campus," said Karen Whitney, IUPUI's vice chancellor for student life and diversity. "We evaluate ourselves harshly, and we've not been satisfied."
Indiana-Purdue University-Indianapolis
That comes out to IPUI. Where's that extra U coming from?
Whiners.
Nashunda ping! (Isn't that a town in New Hampshire?)
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis.
Great more judicial blackmail........
Gay. Gay. Liberace-gay.
Tell me what you are qualifyed to do if you major in "black studies" other than become an activist for reparations? You don't need to waste time in college to do that. If you want to learn about Africa, then go to Africa and learn it first hand.
Nashunda was a precinct here in Richmond that went 94-6 for Webb. Nashunda Gardens Housing Project. /sarcasm
And to the whiners, I say, IUPUI on youey.
}:-)4
Actually it is Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
Hammers, nails, and wood are racist tools of the white man. They should make do with tents.
I hope they're told to go to hell, in not so many words.
diversity doesn't seem to be a problem for the basketball team......
http://www.iupuijags.com/History/schoolsong.html
Due to them ? Who the f' are they that they have something 'due' to them ? If you want your center go get donations from the black community and put one together, if they agree that it's 'due' to you...
Man makes my blood boil. Due... yea, right.
Indianapolis is getting worse every day. Peterson and his lapdog McPaper, "Mama Doc" Carson, what next?
You are due nothing and are responsible for your own comfort.
I'm confused. Is there a "white student union", an "asian student union" a "whatever student union", but no "black student union"? I guess then there would be discrimination. Otherwise, how is having a place that is only for people of one "race" not discrimination? Why can't there just be a "student union"? Why the need to segregate? I thought segregation was supposed to be over and done with long, long ago. The IUPUI Black Student Union said it would file a lawsuit Monday unless officials agree to provide a new black cultural center, more black faculty and $78,000 for black student groups.
If this guy is so uncomfortable on a "Eurocentric" campus,maybe he should change his Eurocentric name and quit speaking a Eurocentric language
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