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Students block President Jonathan Veitch from his own office on the
Occidental College campus.
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It looks like President Jonathan Veitch and the Occidental College Board of Trustees have met the student protesters halfway. As I count them, they agreed to meet at least five of the protester's 14 demands.
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1. Resignation - No.
2. Chief Diversity Officer Promotion - Yes.
3. Chief Diversity Office Budget Increase - Yes.
4. More Diversity and Equity Board Funding - No.
5. Black Studies Program - No.
6. Increase Tenured Black Faculty - No.
7. Funding for Harambee - Yes.
8. Mandatory Training for Staff - Yes.
9. Demilitarization - No.
10. Removal of LAPD - No.
11. Intercultural Affairs Maintenance - Yes.
12. Elimination of First Year Education Program - No.
13. Physician of Color - No.
14. Coalition @Oxy for Diversity and Equity Demands - No.
If you score this differently, please add your comments in the space below.
What Veitch does not understand is the anti-white hostility embedded in this protest. The BLM protesters will not give up even though they got some of what they wanted, because what they want fundamentally is to eliminate white liberals from positions of power. I suspect this will come as a disappointing shock to Veitch and the rest of his administration.
The larger issue remains: The shortage of intellectual diversity at Occidental College. We will not have a real, vibrant, influential intellectual community at Occidental College until at least half the staff and faculty are conservatives. Luckily, conservatives do not worry about the race or gender of their ideological adherents.
John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist.
1 comment:
They are implementing a black studies minor, just not a major. To be fair though, having almost no infrastructure in place for the major putting together a minor so quickly seems pretty impressive. Additionally, if students express enough interest in the minor after the excitement of the protests goes away, it could be moved to major status. I do agree that the lack of intellectual diversity on the campus is abysmal, and one reason the protests will continue despite this appeasement.
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