"nothing about combating 'ageism'" Check your boomer privilege, old fellow.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Marv Gandall <marvga...@gmail.com> wrote: > What a narrow and reactionary document - nothing about combatting > “ageism”, which leaves most of us on the list vulnerable to continued > oppression! > > On Mar 10, 2016, at 8:25 AM, raghu <mragh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/10/western-washington-university-students-push-sweeping-demands > ------------------------------snip > Now a student group there calling itself the Student Assembly for Power > and Liberation has sent a list of far-reaching demands > <http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/students-for-power-and-liberation-demands-wwu> > to the university’s president after criticizing the administration > <http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article46488630.html> for an > inadequate response to threats. > > The list comprises some of the most of the most expansive -- and resource > heavy -- demands put to a university’s administration. Among them: > > - A new College of Power and Liberation to focus on “the study of > histories and communities that continue to be mis- and underrepresented > into the mainstream curriculum at Western.” In addition to the college > itself, the list calls for “a cluster hire of 10 tenure-track faculty,” a > new building to house the college and that the Student Assembly for Power > and Liberation have “direct input and decision-making power over the hiring > of faculty for the college.” > - That $45,000 be allocated to compensate students and faculty “doing > de-colonial work on campus,” which is defined as “providing space and > resources to learn alternate histories, supporting students' nonacademic > work, emotional and intellectual labor that is not about publishing or > service to the institution, providing often unrecognized trainings, > workshops and/or interventions on behalf of students.” > - The creation of a 15-person student committee called the Office for > Social Transformation “to monitor, document and archive all racist, > antiblack, transphobic, cissexist, misogynistic, ableist, homophobic, > Islamophobic and otherwise oppressive behavior on campus.” Using a > three-strike system, the committee would have the power to take > disciplinary action up to and including dismissal against faculty members > who receive citations for creating “an unsafe classroom environment.” > - A mandatory online survey conducted by the faculty and > administration that would “allow Western Washington University community > members to confidentially express concerns of discrimination and safety.” > - A new “multicultural residence building,” applications to which > would be overseen by the new Office for Social Transformation. > - And finally that the university provide tuition reimbursement to > “any Western Washington University student who has been targeted by, > harassed by or has experienced excruciating acts of violence that [were] > racialized, sexualized, gendered, based on ability, employment status, > citizenship and/or mental health from the university.” > > The petition also included several uses of the words "persxn" and > "hxstory," which some online were quick to mock > <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/07/the-college-that-wants-to-ban-history.html>. > Replacing certain letters in pronouns or some other words (like "Latinx" > for Latino or Latina > <https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/08/students-adopt-gender-nonspecific-term-latinx-be-more-inclusive>) > with an X is strategy to avoid gendered language. Changing other words, > like "person" and "history," in that way does not appear to be a very > common at all, however: neither "hxstory" nor "persxn" have been used often > enough to be graphable by Google Trends. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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