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“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.” -George Orwell

Thursday, February 27, 2014

RED EYE - FEBRUARY 22, 2014 FULL EPISODE



Greg welcomes guests Nick DiPaolo and Sonnie Johnson.

Threats of "physical action" at Dartmouth, then and now
A collection of Dartmouth students who describe themselves as "Concerned Asian, Black, Latin@, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently-Abled students" have threatened "physical action" if the administrators do not respond to their list of demands. The list of demands is lengthy. Here are some of them:
Incorporate into each department at LEAST one queer studies class.
Commit multi-millions of dollars to increase faculty and staff of color in all departments, and create a "professor of color" lecture series.
Require ALL professors to be trained in "cultural competency" and the "importance of social justice in their day to day work."
Ask faculty to use preferred gender pronouns. Allow body and gender self-determination.
Provide gender-neutral housing to all students. Provide gender-specific AND gender-neutral bathrooms in EVERY BUILDING on campus.
Provide free legal assistance and financial aid for undocumented students to "better understand each of their unique legal statuses."
Require that every Dartmouth student be taught and made aware that the land they reside on is Abenaki homeland.
All male-female checkboxes should be replaced with write-in boxes to make forms, surveys, and applications more inclusive for trans, two-spirit, agender, gender-nonconforming and genderqueer folks campus-wide.
The students say that Dartmouth must commit to meeting these demands by March 24, 2014. Otherwise "physical action" will ensue.
I was once part of a group of Dartmouth students that threatened (and engaged in) physical action if the administration did not respond to a demand. The physical action was taking over Parkhurst Hall, the main administration building. The demand was ending ROTC at Dartmouth.
Our demand was probably more pernicious than the entire laundry list presented by the "Concerned Asian, Black, Latin@, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently-Abled students." But at least it had the virtue of being sane.
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  1. Joe WestonJune 19, 2014 at 4:32 PM

    So your biggest complaints include teachers being asked to have a 3 hour training session and to call students by the same pronouns everyone else does, changing a checkbox on a form to a line, and acknowledging the existence of native Americans. Is that what I'm supposed to be getting out of this?

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