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Sick
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now everything is fixed
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@3
Exactly.
Even agreeing with students' assertion that curriculum needs revision,
(which is questionable)
untrue that long-held course of study at the College was problem with Kelley.
Seems like power-play by faculty using students' "demands".
BFD.
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Good.
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"Emeritus" means she won't be a regular faculty member. That's pretty strict.
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Quite a new generation we're producing. Like the spawn of Joe McCarthy and Joe Stalin.
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Dumb that a private *Jesuit* college is being pressured into changing the curricula that's been at the heart of their order for thousands of years.

I went to SU for a few years before I transferred (it was too damned expensive). They emphasized the classics but also had courses by Rabbis, Russian Orthodox Priests, and I think an Imam (not 100% sure on that one, I was waitlisted).

What percentage of coursework do these kids want changed? Should every course only include women and minorities? Should Moby Dick, The Metamophoses, The Iliad, Farenheit 451, or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn not be taught simply because they happened to be written by white men?

By all means, give them a broad range of material, but these students are failing themselves if they ignore the works that have contributed to the cultural fabric of society for centuries.
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More of the exact kind of bullshit that Dick Gregory warned about.
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Not necessarily a badge of honor what these SU did. Consider:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/201…

I agree with her. One must read the Canon.
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Meant to say "SU students".
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@9
Only specific claim students could make against Kelley is that, in response to a student question about racism, Kelley pulled title from her book-shelf & suggested she read Dick Gregory's "N-----".
Title of book -- Gregory's own title! -- was cause for upset.
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well at least it was SU and not an actual respectable institution like UW
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Fuck I hate this country.
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@8 "Dumb that a private *Jesuit* college is being pressured into changing the curricula that's been at the heart of their order for thousands of years."

The college lists diversity and justice in its mission and goals. The students are holding them to this. It shouldn't be a radical change, even for Jesuits.
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@15
Take a look at the courses of study at SU & Matteo Ricci e.g.
https://www.seattleu.edu/matteo-ricci/pr…
Look further.
it's an impressive curriculum & approach.
I think these students were foolish & wasted their energy on what could have been far more productive matters than trying to get a Dean fired.
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Meet the new Regressive Left. When they run out of "enemies" at their 30k a year liberal university they'll start turning on their own.
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As to the Update & to paraphrase Dan Savage:
"It gets worse"
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Not resigning. Retiring.
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"...all the trauma and pain suffered for years by students, alumni, faculty, and staff..."

Uh huh. Seems to me that they're more comfortable up on that cross than Jesus ever was.
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@21
Is there a non-sexist term for "drama queen"?
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The whole point of the student-teacher relationship is that students do not know, cannot know what is important. That's why they're students.

If you're uncomfortable at university, then you're getting what you paid for. Profit from it.

But not this bunch of whiners. Pampered ignoramuses the lot of 'em. And to think that the Society of Jesus caved to this mob of tantrum-throwing kindergarteners. Saint Ignatius must be spinning in his grave.
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Incidentally, if I worked in HR, I'd make darn sure to put every single one of these crybabies on a do not hire list. You just know they'll try to pull the same BS in the real world. Employers do not have the time to deal with crap like this. Of course, when they get fired, it'll be the fault of "the culture" and "racism" and have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with their own personal failure to understand what it means to be an employee.
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As a former student activist (albeit approximately one million years ago) I find their cause to be simple-minded, their motives to be suspect, their tactics to be tired, and their wrap-up to be both over-wrought and stupid. No one traumatized by a literature curriculum at an entirely voluntary educational institution. That's an insult to the people who are suffering and are traumatized by institutional racism. There's no one stopping them from reading a broader spectrum of books, or moving on to an institution that is more "Afro-centric" (or whatever it is they are looking for)

The kids had their say, the faculty member retired, nothing was accomplished. Let's move on.
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@25
But "moving on" means what?
Feeding the crocodiles only encourages them.

Students missed huge opportunity to do something productive (saying that seriously) but focussed on personnel & nebulous demands about curriculum.

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^^^ If this represents the new generation of trolls, I weep for the future.
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The safe space has been cleansed of any triggers for these young special snowflakes. Keep in mind they are coming to a job interview near you soon!!

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