Diversity run amok. The alphabet soup students needed a bigger space, so Ohio University took some of the space the black students considered theirs. Guess you can't please everyone!
OU to relocate LGBT Center, but not everybody happy
By Conor Morris
Apr 10, 2019
Ohio University’s LGBT Center soon will relocate to a larger space within Baker Center. However, some on campus and in Athens are unhappy with the move because they say it will take away space from the university’s Multicultural Center.
According to an OU news release distributed on Tuesday, the LGBT Center’s move is needed in order to “accommodate the needs of the Center’s growing footprint on campus.†...
Carla Triana, an OU senior studying international business who frequents the Multicultural Center regularly, said in a brief interview Wednesday that she and some other students of color are upset about the decision.
“I strongly feel that the LGBT Center needs more space, and they should have all the space that they need, but not by taking over (space) at the Multicultural Center,†Triana said.
The Multicultural Center is one of the few places on OU’s majority-white campus that feels like it belongs to students of color, Triana said, a place where these students regularly host events, hold discussions and hang out. ...
Justice Hill, an assistant professor of journalism and a regular critic of Secuban [Gigi Secuban, vice president for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion], charged that the move only serves to pit two groups “that are already marginalized†at OU against each other. He said he’s a big supporter of the LGBT Center, and of former Director delfin bautista (who uses they/them pronouns and the lowercase spelling of their name), but said that this isn’t the best way to go about supporting LGBT students or students of color. He added that the LGBT Center does need a new space because the current space is not in a sufficiently prominent location.
“We’ll take something away from you so that we can give this other group some space,†Hill said, characterizing the move.
Hill also hotly contested the idea that the OU administration is committed to diversity and inclusion, and said that that lack of support is one of the reasons he’s planning to quit his job at the university.
“They say diversity is a core value but it is not; it’s a dream, it’s a hope, but it’s got no value when you put a woman like her (Secuban) in charge of Diversity and Inclusion and (she) has no clue about life in southeast Ohio,†Hill charged. ...
Full story at Athens News
All the oppressed are being oppressed at OU, apparently. What they need is a gay center director who doesn't identify as anything in particular (and that includes "sane"). And if the Multicultural Center is, well, multicultural, why do the students of color not want anyone who isn't one of them to use it?
Yes, I had to look up Delfin Bautista. He's a guy, so ...
