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Emory University Erupts In Protests After Someone Writes "Trump 2016" In Sidewalk Chalk
Barstool Sports ^ | 3/22/2016 | Kmarko

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; education; election2016; elections; emoryu; emoryuniversity; georgia; leftismoncampus; newyork; speechcodes; triggerwarning; trump
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To: 20yearsofinternet

HATE CRIME!!!!

Sheesh.


21 posted on 03/22/2016 3:49:28 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Trump should pass out chalk at his rallies.


22 posted on 03/22/2016 3:49:32 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

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.


23 posted on 03/22/2016 3:49:55 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: MNDude

I’m in for a box. Also, post-its on the atm, the gas pump, starbucks front doors... The possibilities are endless.


24 posted on 03/22/2016 3:50:39 PM PDT by petercooper (All the world's problems are caused by the sandrats, hoodrats, gimmedats, democrats and commiecrats.)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Come on, their professor gave them extra credit in basket weaving because they caused a PC ruckus.


25 posted on 03/22/2016 3:51:31 PM PDT by Rodm
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To: rktman

Human sacrifice. It’s the only way.


26 posted on 03/22/2016 3:51:34 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: 20yearsofinternet
Hehehe...now they need to see it 100 times.

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."

27 posted on 03/22/2016 3:52:03 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

This. Old be great fun for anyone living near a campus...


28 posted on 03/22/2016 3:52:08 PM PDT by Kozak (ALLAH AKBAR = HEIL HITLER)
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To: BobL
Emory's not a black college. That's Morehouse (and Spelman).

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.

29 posted on 03/22/2016 3:52:12 PM PDT by x
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To: 20yearsofinternet

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


30 posted on 03/22/2016 3:52:36 PM PDT by HangnJudge (Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Trump is the latest N-word.


31 posted on 03/22/2016 3:52:49 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Calling Obama a POS is a major insult to S.)
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To: x

Sorry, got it mixed up with Ebony College.


32 posted on 03/22/2016 3:53:12 PM PDT by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

What a bunch of =^..^=, and I include the university president.


33 posted on 03/22/2016 3:53:19 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

34 posted on 03/22/2016 3:53:19 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..nevere store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Sidewalk chalk is cheap: http://www.walmart.com/search/?query=sidewalk%20chalk

Sounds like fun entertainment....


35 posted on 03/22/2016 3:53:33 PM PDT by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Chalk is teap.

What is the leading antidepressant, and who makes it. Talk about crash proof stocks...


36 posted on 03/22/2016 3:54:51 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: Vaquero
HATE CRIME!!!!

But I've always hated crime...

37 posted on 03/22/2016 3:55:49 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: petercooper

Yup. agreed.


38 posted on 03/22/2016 3:56:25 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

They will probably tear out and replace the sidewalks before this is over.


39 posted on 03/22/2016 3:57:12 PM PDT by cabojoe
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To: 20yearsofinternet

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 ???

:)


40 posted on 03/22/2016 3:57:12 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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