UC Afrikan Student issuing demands, threatening staff

[dietz199]

The Afrikan/African Student Union is issuing demands at both UCLA and UCSC.

http://dailybruin.com/2017/05/11/afrikan-student-union-releases-list-of-demands-for-ucla-administration/

The UCLA gaggle is demanding a 40 million dollar endowment and

The Black Resource Center would house meeting and safe spaces for ASU and its projects, such as the Academic Supports Program, Students Heightening Access Performance through Educations and the Afrikan Education Project. Frison said ASU spoke with African-American students at other universities that have similar centers when developing this demand.

Additionally, ASU said the university should establish the position of Black Student Financial Aid Officer, someone who would advocate for financial aid for previously dismissed students and ensure four years of housing for black students.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/article/NE/20170515/NEWS/170519810

The African/Black Student alliance occupied a building, intimidating and terrorizing the staff.

Another Kerr Hall staff member who asked to remain anonymous said she was frustrated when Vice Provost and Executive Vice-Chancellor Herbert Lee deemed the protest peaceful simply because “nobody was hurt.”

Officials have acknowledged the university’s official description of the incident may have contradicted the experiences of its staff. A Sentinel reporter also was taunted and threatened by the student group.

The UCSC chancellor has agreed to all demands. I guess threatening and endangering staff gets you want you want.

The demands include separate housing, guaranteed free housing to any black student. Special financial aid counselors.

Oh…and incase someone doesn’t ‘understand’ From the representatives at UCSC…

“We demand that all new incoming students from 2017-2018 school year forward (first years and transfers) go through a mandatory in-person diversity competency training in the event that the online module is not implemented by JUNE 2017. We demand that the training be reviewed and approved by A/BSA board every two years. We demand that every incoming student complete this training by their first day of class.”

So separate really CAN be equal.

[techmom99]

Sounds like separate can be better - guaranteed free housing!

[busdriver11]

If I was a donor, I would pull my donations and let them know why. Money speaks. Loudly.

[lalalander111]

Welcome to lalaland.
Maybe these folks should spend some time on academics and getting internships.
Just a thought.

[dragonmom3]

And people wonder why CA families are looking out of state…

[ucbalumnus]

@techmom99

Sounds like separate can be better - guaranteed free housing!

The A/BSA at UCSC only wanted (and apparently got) a 4 year housing guarantee, not free, and restricted to a specific theme house.

Given that the group’s demands seem contradictory to each other (the number of students they wanted covered by the 4 year housing guarantee would likely exceed the capacity of the theme house (which is apparently already selective, requiring a supplemental application for interested students), particularly when the theme house’s capacity is reduced by the other demand to convert some rooms back to a lounge that it was before it was turned into rooms to increase capacity), perhaps giving them what they think they want will make them see the folly of their wishes… (as in “be careful what you wish for, you may get it”)

Note that UCSC offers various levels of housing guarantees anyway, but not restricted to any particular building in the campus housing: http://www.housing.ucsc.edu/guarantee/index.html

[sorghum]

ASU also demanded that the university create anti-discrimination policies against prejudiced behavior.

Demanded with a straight face and no hint of irony, I bet.

[sciencenerd]

Can we separate these two incidents before further commenting? One was clearly creating an unsafe environment (UCSC) while the other was not (UCLA).