Aside from a handful of cases, all American colleges and universities were started by white men and later opened to minorities and women.
"The legacy of oppression" quote has to do with a couple of isolated incidents over the past two weeks. which are discuused in this article that appeared in the most recent issue of The Lafayette, the college newspaper:
Student misbehavior increases as semester ends - News
The incidents described, while regrettable, don't meet the threshhold of an institutionalized "legacy of oppression" by a long shot in my opinion. And it appears that President Weiss is dealing with the incidents in a deliberate and responsible manner, as the administrations at Denison University and SUNY Geneseo did last semester.
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