Jeff Huang, Claremont McKenna’s Dean of Students, has forwarded the following email from Scripps College Associate Dean of Students Staci Buchwald. (My response to come.)
Between the hours of 8:00 AM and 10: 25 AM on March 9, 2008 , a person wrote a cultural epithet and offensive drawing on the write and wipe board of a student's room in Routt Hall. The incident came to my attention this morning.
This kind of conduct constitutes a bias incident and anyone with information about the perpetrator of the incident should contact an RA, DOS staff member or campus safety.
Anyone in need of support or wishing to discuss this incident is welcome and encouraged to contact the resource which best meets their needs. Resources include:
+staff at OBSA - Hughes Suffren - x73639
+ staff at CLSA - Maria Torres - x18044
+ staff on the Asian American Advisory Board - Jeanne Noda - x18125
+ Res Life Staff - Staci Buchwald x18277
+ Chaplains Office - x18685
+ SCORE staff - Marla Love x70743
+ Scripps Diversity Coordinating Committee - Nancy Neiman Auerbach x73549
+ staff at MCAPS ( Monsour) x18202
+ DOS - x18277
We are a supportive, caring community and bias related incidents will not
be tolerated. Any time a community member becomes aware of a racist,
sexist, heterosexist bias incident on our campus, a potential bias
incident or hate crime, or any other type of crime, they are urged to
appropriate action to combat the incident. These actions might include:
calling campus safety,
photographing the incident,
identifying the perpetrator,
intervening in the moment if safe to do so,
writing a letter or article for one of the student news publications,
sponsoring, attending or participating in educational programming,
encouraging your peers to do the same.
In accordance with the Communication Protocol for Bias
Related Incidents for The Claremont Colleges a binder of incidents is
kept in the Dean of Students Office, located in Balch Hall, room 112,
SARLO and SCORE.
Persons wishing to review this binder may do so during regular office
hours.
Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM .
Staci Buchwald, Associate Dean of StudentsScripps College
3 comments:
THEY DON'T EVEN SAY WHAT HAPPENED!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
I'm not sure how much different this is from you mentioning in passing that you receive hate mail but not elaborating. In both cases, no one has the chance to decide for themselves if it was a valid hate/bias incident, or if it was merely someone being less than eloquent in their criticism, or a joke (ie: Hillary is a...), or a genuine incident. It would be rather hypocritical of you to complain when you seem to like to wallow in the victim identity yourself... you're the poor baby who's always robbed by the crazy liberals who send you hate letters. When you post things, try really hard to think about whether you do the same.
Something about "go fucking kill yourself" doesn't seem appropriate for this blog. Or maybe we can talk about the people who've called me "evil." Or maybe we can talk about the "homoerotic" comment.
Whatever. I frankly kind of like hate mail. Whenever someone attacks me personally, it says more about them than it does about me.
But this blog is my property. I get to decide how it is used. Sorry.
I guess this whole blog is a bias-related incident. I'm proud to be biased. Somebody has to be biased for human liberty.
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