Posted on 03/22/2016 3:44:21 PM PDT by 20yearsofinternet
Hey,
I am a student at Emory and yesterday, March 21st, someone had written Trump in chalk hundreds of times on campus. Some people apparently were OFFENDED that someone wrote Trump 2016 in CHALK so these 50 people were protesting in the DUC…absolutely ridiculous. Today the president sent this email. Really hoped shit like this wouldn’t happen here but this is why nobody respects college students I guess.
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Dear Emory Community,
Yesterday I received a visit from 40 to 50 student protesters upset by the unexpected chalkings on campus sidewalks and some buildings yesterday morning, in this case referencing Donald Trump. The students shared with me their concern that these messages were meant to intimidate rather than merely to advocate for a particular candidate, having appeared outside of the context of a Georgia election or campus campaign activity. During our conversation, they voiced their genuine concern and pain in the face of this perceived intimidation.
After meeting with our students, I cannot dismiss their expression of feelings and concern as motivated only by political preference or over-sensitivity.
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Sincerely, Jim Wagner (President)
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HATE CRIME!!!!
Sheesh.
Trump should pass out chalk at his rallies.
Let’s play “guess the academic major” of those who are offended.
Of course, we know that the term “academic major”, in this particular case, is the very definition of an oxymoron.
I’m in for a box. Also, post-its on the atm, the gas pump, starbucks front doors... The possibilities are endless.
Come on, their professor gave them extra credit in basket weaving because they caused a PC ruckus.
Human sacrifice. It’s the only way.
As to this College president speaking of the 40-50 students who came to him and said they were intimidated by it,
"...after meeting with our students, I cannot dismiss their expression of feelings and concern as motivated only by political preference or over-sensitivity."
What an utter wuss.
Here, let me say it then.
"...after meeting with our students, I advised them that they needed to put their big boy and girl pants on and not be so damned sensitive."
This. Old be great fun for anyone living near a campus...
From Wikipedia:
Controversy
In February 2013, President Wagner wrote an essay in the Emory Magazine entitled "As American as... Compromise" in which he used the Three-Fifths Compromise as an example of pragmatic compromise that Emory University should emulate. He wrote, "One instance of constitutional compromise was the agreement to count three-fifths of the slave population for purposes of state representation in Congress... Both sides found a way to temper ideology and continue working toward the highest aspiration they both shared—the aspiration to form a more perfect union. They set their sights higher, not lower, in order to identify their common goal and keep moving toward it." The essay sparked controversy on Emory's campus and attracted national and international media attention and an apology from Wagner.
I used to live near by Emory Campus
It is as pure Liberal a university
as you can find in the South
The neighborhood is equally “Progressive”
The County (Dekalb) has been taken over
by Race based politics
Trump is the latest N-word.
Sorry, got it mixed up with Ebony College.
What a bunch of =^..^=, and I include the university president.
Sidewalk chalk is cheap: http://www.walmart.com/search/?query=sidewalk%20chalk
Sounds like fun entertainment....
Chalk is teap.
What is the leading antidepressant, and who makes it. Talk about crash proof stocks...
But I've always hated crime...
Yup. agreed.
They will probably tear out and replace the sidewalks before this is over.
I went down to Atlanta to Emory University in 1985 to take the NTE the National Teachers Examination...
I chose Pacific Islander (which I am My native New Zealand is part of Polynesia)for my ethnicity etc (so Im white Im still a Pacific Islander you bigot :)
I think at the time we had figured out there were so many bad teachers in South Carolina where I lived then who were black because the results were dependent on that little box and not the number of correct answers...
anyhoo I passed the NTE
who knows ???
:)
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