Posted on 02/21/2021 9:56:14 AM PST by george76
A Cornell University course titled “BIPOC Rock Climbing,” was originally restricted to “people who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color.”..
When Campus Reform contacted the school, Cornell officials edited the course description to remove the race-based enrollment restriction.
Cornell University altered the course description of a racially-segregated physical education course offered to students during the Spring 2021 academic semester after Campus Reform reached out for comment.
The class, entitled “BIPOC Rock Climbing," was originally restricted to “people who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color," before its description was edited to state that the class is “designed to enable Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color underrepresented in the sport of rock climbing to learn the sport and to feel included and supported."
The course’s original description, noting the class’s race-based enrollment restriction, is still visible, courtesy of an internet archive.
According to the new description, posted on Cornell’s website, the class will provide a “high degree of individual attention” and a “supportive space” where students will discuss “BIPOC individuals and groups in rock climbing." The new description states that the class is now “open to all” students who are “interested in learning rock climbing with this special focus."
The total price for students taking the course is $1,890—including the standard cost of a one-credit course, $1,575, and an additional mandatory “course fee” of $315.
When asked for comment, John Carberry, Cornell’s Senior Director of Media Relations and News, issued a statement to Campus Reform claiming that “all Cornell students” are “welcome” to enroll in the course, contradicting the original course description.
Carberry insisted that the course’s original description reflected an “intentional focus” on “outreach and inclusion," but that there was “never” any intention to exclude students that don’t identify as BIPOC.
“All Cornell students are welcome to enroll in this course. While the original description of the course represented an intentional focus on outreach and inclusion, there was never an intent to exclude non-minority students. The description of the course has been adjusted accordingly," Carberry said.
According to the New York State Attorney General’s website, “Students in New York schools are protected by federal, state, and local laws that prevent discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and other categories."
Additionally, the New York Human Rights Law “makes it illegal” for “non-sectarian educational institutions” to “deny their services to students on the basis of race, color, religion, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, age or marital status."
A post on the r/Cornell subreddit page referencing the class titled “End Racially Segregated PE Classes at Cornell” generated significant discussion and backlash.
One user noted that under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, schools “cannot be segregated” based on race, and another described “Critical Race Theory” as “f****** toxic."
Still, others defended the existence of racially-segregated courses at Cornell, with one declaring that the “intention” of the class is to “provide an affinity space” for “BIPOC students to feel comfortable and extra supported in a historically White dominated area of outdoor recreation."
Another user claimed that segregating rock climbing at Cornell brings more “diversity” into the class’s “pool of participants," comparing the class to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). HBCUs do not limit their enrollments based on race or ethnicity.
Campus Reform reached out to representatives of the university’s Outdoor Education program but did not receive responses in time for publication.
They could shorten BIPOC to NW (no whites) and save themselves some ink.
This class will be so telling on the students transcript. It’s a definite, hire me and get multiple EEO complaints.
There used to be a cigarette commercial on TV that gave the sequence for tying them - "Over, Under, Around and Through." Per Google, appears that it was Pall Mall.
More efficient for sorting resumes than names with punctuation marks or misspellings.
Pulver rhymes with Silver.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/pulver
Well, on the bright side (from a Leftist point of view) this
can all be attributed to Republicans down the road, because
everyone knows the parties reversed their racial policies.
LOL
Racists gonna do what they always have.
The Democrats lost their slaves. Now they want to turn us
into the very thing they lost.
Just can’t get it out of their blood.
They could have had a much shorter description with “white folks need not apply”. . .
Call me when they have a fire starter program for the limbless
Your characterization of Ithaca is funny given your screen name.
So it does. Thank you.
That is a great idea! They are so far gone that they take everything seriously, including being terrified of a cartoon frog and thinking the “OK” sign is a white nationalist symbol.
They might be able to hire a Latino wall-climbing expert, if they stop by the Home Depot parking lot. :)
They should demonstrate equity in knots. All knots are equal knots and proper knots are white supremacy knots.
As I’m sure it always was.
I’m sure the previous description didn’t exclude anyone.
Maybe “people of color” just aren’t interested in rock climbing. What are they going to do. Force them to sign up for the sake of inclusion?
Did they really think that excluding whites would automatically drive up POC registration for the class?
Why are people so willing to pay such idiots to (allegedly) educate their children?
Funny thing is, of the three people I ever knew who worked at Cornell, two profs and one staff, not one of them was this kind of idiot.
Cornell went to the devil starting in the late 1960s and never recovered.
I’ve been keeping my Cornell frat bros apprised of the university’s descent into woke madness, and happened to send that article to them yesterday!
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