Oberlin Students Release Gargantuan 14-Page List Of Demands

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Oberlin Students Release Gargantuan 14-Page List Of Demands

Posted By Blake Neff On 9:20 AM 12/17/2015 In | No Comments

Oberlin College students have finally joined dozens of other colleges in releasing a Mizzou-inspired set of demands for their administration, and while the demands come a month late, they make up for it by being very numerous and remarkably extreme.

The list, which bubbled up online over the past three days, is no less than 14 pages in length, and includes a staggering 50 demands, many of which divide into several sub-demands. Not only are the demands numerous, but they are quite severe and are paired with stern rhetoric. The document opens as follows:

    Oberlin College and Conservatory is an unethical institution. From capitalizing on massive labor exploitation across campus, to the Conservatory of Music treating Black and other students of color as less than through its everyday running, Oberlin College unapologetically acts as [sic] unethical institution, antithetical to its historical vision. In the 1830s, this school claimed a legacy of supporting its Black students. However, that legacy has amounted to nothing more than a public relations campaign initiated to benefit the image of the institution and not the Africana people it was set out for … [T]his institution functions on the premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy. Oberlin College and Conservatory uses the limited number of Black and Brown students to color in its brochures, but then erases us from student life on this campus. You profit off of our accomplishments and invisible labor, yet You expect us to produce personal solutions to institutional incompetencies. We as a College-defined “high risk,” “low income,” “disadvantaged” community should not have to carry the burden of deconstructing the white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist system that we took no part in creating, yet is so deeply embedded in the soil upon which this institution was built.

After continuing in this manner for a while and outlining some broad goals (such as “the eradication hegemony in the curriculum”), the document begins to reel off demands, warning that they are “not polite requests, but concrete and unmalleable demands.” If Oberlin doesn’t capitulate, the document warns of a “full and forceful response,” though, despite the detailed demands, what the “response” would be remains entirely undefined.

Some demands mimic those recently seen at other schools, like Dartmouth College, Yale University, and the University of Missouri. The students want more black enrollment, more black employees in various offices, and so forth. Other demands stand out, though, including:

    A 40 percent increase in the number of black students in the school’s jazz department by 2022 (demands related to the jazz department are in general very numerous).
    The elimination of the school’s No Trespass list, which bars certain individuals deemed unsafe from entering campus, because it includes blacks in disproportionate numbers.
    The creation of a bridge program that will recruit recently-released prisoners to enroll at Oberlin for undergraduate courses
    “A more inclusive audition process in the Conservatory that does not privilege Western European theoretical knowledge over playing ability.”
    Adding Africa-centric course requirements for all departments that have existing Western civilization-themed course requirements. For example, history majors are required to take a U.S. history course, so they should also be required to take a course on African history prior to 1800.
    The establishment of special, segregated black-only “safe spaces” across campus, including in the central library and the school’s science building.
    An $8.20/hour stipend for black student leaders who are organizing protest efforts
    The creation of a school busing system for Oberlin, Ohio’s K-12 schools, paid for by the college.
    The immediate firing of eight college employees for various offenses, including music theory professor Allen Cadwallader for “the racist undertones of his course as well as the way in which he treats black Jazz who take his course, which is rooted in white supremacy.”

While the long list of demands clearly involved a substantial amount of effort, one interesting aspect is its authorship is not totally clear. The original Google Docs post of the demands (which has since been deleted) credits them to ABUSUA, a black student group, but that group doesn’t appear to have much of a public online presence, and there’s also no outside evidence of them taking credit for it. But some other Oberlin organizations, like its pro-Palestine group, have publicly endorsed the demands, and there was also an online document collecting signatures which, according to the blog Legal Insurrection, surpassed 400 before also being taken down.

Whatever the demands’ origin, it’s not a huge surprise that they’ve popped up at Oberlin. Two years ago, the school had a series of hate crimes faked by liberal students, and earlier this year an appearance by feminism critic Christina Hoff Sommers prompted students to create a special “safe space” for students who felt emotionally traumatized by her lecture.

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[mountaineer]

Oh, great. My niece would like to transfer to Oberlin for its outstanding opera program. Of course, it costs a whopping fortune to attend, like every other leftwing hellhole of a private college.

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Black Oberlin Students Want to Be Paid for Protesting Against the College

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The ultra liberal students at ultra liberal Oberlin College have issued 14 pages of demands and have made it clear that these are not requests but demands.  They say if any of the demands are not met, the college will suffer for it.  No specific measures were put forth by the students.  The students are complaining about racism on campus.  The college did have two racist incidents within the last few years but both were perpetrated by blacks in an effort to paint Oberlin students as racists.

The demands were prefaced by the following:

Oberlin College and Conservatory is an unethical institution. From capitalizing on massive labor exploitation across campus, to the Conservatory of Music treating Black and other students of color as less than through its everyday running, Oberlin College unapologetically acts as [sic] unethical institution, antithetical to its historical vision. In the 1830s, this school claimed a legacy of supporting its Black students. However, that legacy has amounted to nothing more than a public relations campaign initiated to benefit the image of the institution and not the Africana people it was set out for … [T]his institution functions on the premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy. Oberlin College and Conservatory uses the limited number of Black and Brown students to color in its brochures, but then erases us from student life on this campus. You profit off of our accomplishments and invisible labor, yet You expect us to produce personal solutions to institutional incompetencies. We as a College-defined “high risk,” “low income,” “disadvantaged” community should not have to carry the burden of deconstructing the white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist system that we took no part in creating, yet is so deeply embedded in the soil upon which this institution was built.
Here is a partial list of demands provided by The Daily Caller:

 

    A 40 percent increase in the number of black students in the school’s jazz department by 2022 (demands related to the jazz department are in general very numerous).
    The elimination of the school’s No Trespass list, which bars certain individuals deemed unsafe from entering campus, because it includes blacks in disproportionate numbers.
    The creation of a bridge program that will recruit recently-released prisoners to enroll at Oberlin for undergraduate courses
    “A more inclusive audition process in the Conservatory that does not privilege Western European theoretical knowledge over playing ability.”
    Adding Africa-centric course requirements for all departments that have existing Western civilization-themed course requirements. For example, history majors are required to take a U.S. history course, so they should also be required to take a course on African history prior to 1800.
    The establishment of special, segregated black-only “safe spaces” across campus, including in the central library and the school’s science building.
    An $8.20/hour stipend for black student leaders who are organizing protest efforts
    The creation of a school busing system for Oberlin, Ohio’s K-12 schools, paid for by the college.
    The immediate firing of eight college employees for various offenses, including music theory professor Allen Cadwallader for “the racist undertones of his course as well as the way in which he treats black Jazz who take his course, which is rooted in white supremacy.”

Black only safe spaces?  Paying black protesters to protest against the college?  Firing college personnel?  Allowing hoods on campus?

Oberlin should return the list of demands with a one acronym response…..ROFLMAO

http://www.thepcgraveyard.com/2015/12/18/black-oberlin-students-want-to-be-paid-for-protesting-against-the-college/

[Free Vulcan]

Do these black students realize that what they're doing simply reinforces the stereotypes that real bigots use to slur blacks? Basically that all they want is handouts, special privileges, and something for nothing? Now they want separate but equal spaces? Their great-grandparents would have a stroke if they knew that.

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College kids griping about ‘insensitive’ cuisine need to get a grip
By Lenore Skenazy
December 23, 2015 | 9:35pm
NY Post

Some students at Oberlin College are upset that their school’s food isn’t culturally sensitive enough.

In the Oberlin Review, a student from Vietnam complained that the banh mi sandwich served up wasn’t “a crispy baguette with grilled pork, pate, pickled vegetables and fresh herbs,” but instead a cruel Midwestern mishmash of “ciabatta bread, pulled pork and coleslaw.”

Talk about a slap in the face. “It was ridiculous,” the student was quoted as saying.

A junior from Japan complained that the rice in the sushi wasn’t cooked properly, and that this, combined with the “lack of fresh fish,” was completely “disrespectful.”

Perhaps the student was disrespectful of the fact that Oberlin is landlocked.

But here’s the deal: If these students are so attuned to the intersection of food and justice, perhaps there are other fights worth going to the (place)mat for. One that comes to mind is the food served to people in prison.

Just last week, as part of its overhaul of solitary confinement, New York state declared that it will no longer serve people in solitary a type of food called the “Nutraloaf” or “Disciplinary Loaf,” which the prisoners call simply, “The Loaf.” It’s a brick-shaped concoction of milk, flour, potatoes, carrots, margarine and sugar all baked into a chunk far less palatable than it may sound.

“They call it ‘food punishment,’ ” says Isaac Scott, program director for the Confined Arts project at Columbia University, who spent seven years and change in upstate prisons.

Oberlin students might be surprised to learn, as I was, that not only was the food in the chow hall unseasoned, there was no pepper on the table. It was removed for “security reasons” sometime around 2004. What’s more, inmates weren’t allowed to bring in any condiments they’d purchased at the commissary.

“I brought a little bottle of mayonnaise to dinner,” recalls Johnny Perez, now a safe re-entry advocate at the Urban Justice Center in Manhattan, but formerly a prisoner for 13 years. He served some of his time at the Coxsackie Correction Facility upstate, and one day, he says, it was hamburger day there, “and I like a little mayo on my bun.”

Unfortunately for Perez, this was a day the guards elected to search the prisoners on their way into the dining hall, and they seized the contraband. When Perez argued that he wanted it back, “I was being ‘verbally non-compliant.’ I ‘threatened the safety and order of the facility,’ ” he recalls. For that, he lost a month of package-receiving and phone privileges.

He couldn’t call his 8-year-old daughter on her birthday, thanks to wanting mayo on his burger.

In the prisons he was in, says Scott, the inmates received an ice-cream-scoop portion of whatever food they were being served, and dinner was at 4:30 p.m. (Lunch was at about noon, breakfast at 6 or 7.) Nights were long and hungry.

For a breakfast treat, every other Thursday, the prisoners got scrambled eggs. Otherwise, it was Wheatena. Once a month they got a donut.

The prisoners had 10 minutes to eat. If they stood up without first asking permission, said Scott, “that could send you to the box.”

To solitary, that is. And The Loaf.

I asked Scott how outsiders — say, college students longing to make the world more decent, one meal at a time — could help.

“Get the facts and data about the actual meals [in prison]. The portions. Show how food is used as punishment. When you get sentenced to The Loaf, that’s injustice,” said Scott. “It’s indicative of the feeling, ‘You should be dead. We’re only feeding you because we have to.’ ”

But of course, prison is just one place students interested in food issues might want to start. Helping run a food bank is another. Or bringing the elderly to the grocery store. Or serving meals to the homeless.

Any of these activities beyond the campus should give the students a new world view — and an appetite. When they get back, chances are even ciabatta with pulled pork will look pretty good.

Especially if they’re allowed to put some pepper on it.

Lenore Skenazy is founder of the book and blog Free-Range Kids, and a contributor at Reason.com.

Actually, I have no problem with the food served inmates. It contains adequate calories and nutrition. Or perhaps the criminals also want properly-prepared banh mi and sushi?

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The elimination of the school’s No Trespass list, which bars certain individuals deemed unsafe from entering campus, because it includes blacks in disproportionate numbers.

  What???? Am I reading this correctly? They want people who are unsafe on campus?