Article on how protests are hurting University of Missouri

[New England]

OK, so not having kids you can't really understand the perspective.

Racism is not going to be changed by writing your congressman FFS. The university president had already mangled things. SO now you want students to write the people that supported his nomination as president of the university. Ok, its nice that you think things work as they should.

Yeah, so all the people that have directly and indirectly benefitted from the problems that these incidents highlight are going to respond to written letters. ok, again if you really believe this I can't fault you.

You are all off tangent. I'm sure there were some who were angry for no reason, but I think this was the minority. The bottom line is applications (and as a result application fees) are down 5%. This is most likely related to what happened on campus this year. Its clear that students and parents were negatively impacted by what happened and how the university handled it.

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yeah, a teenage mother definitely has more of a grasp on the funding and management of a state institution than i do because she got knocked up and had a baby .



screaming on campus is the only thing most of these kids were capable of [that's why you don't f#cking pay attention to screaming children!] i'll give you that. asking them to open up a meaningful dialogue with local leaders might be unrealistic. they'd probably just start shouting once they were offered a seat at the table to talk about things.

[The Big Dunn]

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yeah, a teenage mother definitely has more of a grasp on the funding and management of a state institution than i do because she got knocked up and had a baby .



screaming on campus is the only thing most of these kids were capable of [that's why you don't f#cking pay attention to screaming children!] i'll give you that. asking them to open up a meaningful dialogue with local leaders might be unrealistic. they'd probably just start shouting once they were offered a seat at the table to talk about things.

no dude, you are missing my point about safety regarding the campus.

However you perceive what they did, it was effective. The university terminated the President and demoted other prominent university leaders.

[Flabulous]

Quetion - has there been an actual white on black attack, or real violence againt blacks by whites?


Whites are much more likely to be victms of black crime than vice versa.


LOL look at black on white **** compared to whkteon black.

[ShoulderRoll]

in a manner that gets more directly to the heart of the issue, instead of clogging up a campus, storming a library, etc. that's a state run school. a letter to the state congressional leaders in your district would do a heck of a lot more than shouting in a library

do you watch these kids? how they act with faculty, administration, etc? they act like the clueless 18-22 year olds they are.

watch them deal with people who don't agree with them. they resort to shouting very quickly . they're just kids. entitled ones, too.

A letter to state congressional leaders?

The fact is the school administration did nothing until the Mizzou football players got involved. I don't think a stern letter was going to get a response.

[New England]

A letter to state congressional leaders?

The fact is the school administration did nothing until the Mizzou football players got involved. I don't think a stern letter was going to get a response.

by the sound of it and the smiley faces [which i use and love,] i think you'd be pretty surprised by the effect of a stern letter from the right people, or the effect of several stern letters from a large number of people. stern letters run this country. a stern letter in the form of some legislation would make or break a university whose students tuititions are subsidized by the state.

congressional campaign funding shapes legislation.


what you're doing with a stern letter is communicating. what an interest group [corporation, profesional organiztaion, union, etc,] does with a stern letter is communicate its needs. after the stern letter comes action. the letter expresses your needs and your intent if those needs are not met.

it's a heck of a lot more productive to use your words and make arguments and form coalitions of likeminded individuals to effect change than it is to skip class and yell at faculty. you can take or leave my understanding of the subject, but i'll venture that i've been around it more than most of you.


you can also vote. spend your time ironing our what your interest are, and vote for representation that will advocate for those interests. you can read. you can talk about these issues in class. you don't shut down the f#Cking library, or shout at a reporter trying to take your picture. that's bordering on the use of force.

you know damn well half of those kids don't take the time out of their super busy lives spent screaming on campus to vote . most probably don't know a thing about the state congress that funds that university. they wouldn't know where to send the letter, never mind the kind of good it can do!

[1bad65]

you can read. you can talk about these issues in class. you don't shut down the f#Cking library, or shout at a reporter trying to take your picture. that's bordering on the use of force.

If you're referring to that 'professor' caught on video, she did more than that. She actually threatened use of force by screaming 'I need some muscle over here' to remove the reporter.

Gotta love it when one side of the aisle is caught red-handed trying to curtail free speech. The modern book burners are the PC movement.