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Originally posted by: pjstroh
The authorities of the Missouri campus issued some safety precautions about some of the rheotirc circulating their school. That effort was mocked by DonDiego's initiation of this thread.
Well, It turns out those authorities were well justified in their precautions. Right? Does anyone still question that now? And what da ya know - the authorities at that school seem to have better insight into their local environment than DonDiego.
Don't get mad at me for presenting the facts. If you must hate me - do it because I'm beautiful.
Once again pjstroh overestimates DonDiego's capacity for getting mad at and for hating anyone. DonDiego is more sad than mad about the paternalistic policies proffered by the Administration of the University of Missouri.
DonDiego is uncertain exactly what precautions pjstroh asserts are justified. And what justifies them.
The only things DonDiego knows are some of the events:
__Student body president Payton Head, who is black, wrote on Facebook in September that a group of white men had yelled racial epithets at him from the back of a pickup truck off campus.
[DonDiego condemns this behavior. It is hurtful.]
__In October a student yelled the N-word at members of the Legion of Black Collegians in a campus plaza while they were rehearsing for a play.
[DonDiego objects to this behavior. It is hurtful.]
__A student asserted that someone had scrawled a swastika using his/her own feces on the wall of a stall in a uni-sex bathroom in Gateway Hall, a dormitory, at approximately 2:00am on 24 October. A campus police report confirms the presence of the excrement.
[DonDiego objects to this behavior. DonDiego recognizes the symbolism of the swastika underwent significant change during the first half of the 20th century. He does not know exactly what the intended message of the "scrawler" is in this matter; he suspects it is negative.
DonDiego has personally seen evidence of dung, urine, and other bodily fluids apparently deposited intentionally in public restrooms on floors, walls, seats, mirrors, etc. He considers it vandalism. (Perhaps DonDiego should frequent more attractive public restrooms.) He does not know what message the individual depositors intended.
So: Who is "the scrawler"? Is Gateway Hall a Black dormitory? DonDiego has more questions than answers.]
__On 7 November The Legion of Black Collegians announced via Twitter that a group of black players on the University of Missouri football would stop participating in football activities until University System President Tim Wolfe resigns.
[DonDiego recognizes a human right to cease participation in organized sports]
__On 9 November University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe announced his resignation.
__On Monday 9 November campus protestors led by Assistant Professor of Mass Media Melisssa Click attempted to have a student photographer on freelance assignment for ESPN from photographing the protest. Professor Click was videotaped requesting a nearby large student to provide her some "muscle" to remove the photographer. Once the video became public, Professor Click resigned from one of her two positions on campus.
[DonDiego objects strenously to Professor Click's attempt to violate the First Amendmen right of the student photographer. He applauds the removal of Professor Click from at least one of her positions; DonDiego counsels the reader to investigate Professor Click's published, and unpublished, scholarly works to observe for themselves what a worthless burden she is on the taxpayers of Missouri.]
__On 10 November Hunter Park, a computer science student at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Mo. - 75 miles from the University of Missouri campus - posted a message on Yik-Yak, an anonymous location-based online app, stating "I’m going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see” and later “Some of you are alright. Don’t go to campus tomorrow.”
At 1:50am on 11 November Mr. Park was arrested in Rolla and transported to Columbia, Mo.
[DonDiego condemns this illegal behavior. Mr. Park's arrest seems quite appropriate and efficient.]
__Campus Police Captain Brian Weime informed KRCG-TV there was also a threat called in to the Black Culture Center on campus on 10 November. He said someone answering the phone perceived the phone call as a threat.
[DonDiego objects to someone making threatening telephone calls.]
