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Zeena Rivera, a second-year student, said she’s read the works of Plato for four different courses already. “When am I going to start reading writers from China, from Africa, from South America?” asked Rivera, who is Filipino. “The only thing they’re teaching us is dead white dudes.”
Students last month began occupying a part of Kelly’s office, calling for her resignation and changes to the college’s curriculum, which they say focuses too narrowly on Western ideas and history.
For seven days and counting, dozens of Seattle University students have been holding a sit-in in the lobby of a university administrative building, demanding an overhaul of one of the university’s elite programs and the resignation of a college dean.
At issue, they say, is a classical curriculum that focuses on Western ideas and history, in part through the teachings of philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle.
Walking around with a target on her back was Dean Jodi Kelly, who reportedly used the n-word in suggesting that a student read comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory’s autobiography, the title of which is simply … the n-word. Kelly has now been sent packing.
So, the administration has placed Kelly on leave in order to placate students who have announced to anyone who will listen that their time at Seattle University has been “profoundly damaging and erasing, with lasting effects on our mental and emotional well-being,” on account of their being “ridiculed, traumatized, othered, tokenized and pathologized.”
Too many ‘dead white dudes’? Seattle U students protest program’s curriculum | The Seattle Times
Seattle University dean placed on administrative leave amid student protests | The Seattle Times
Cave story: Seattle U places dean on leave over psychologically abusive focus on dead white dudes – twitchy.com
Uh, that was the name of the black man's book, dumbasses.
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I seemed to have missed the thriving societies of Africa, the Middle East, and South America, and their rich histories of accomplishment, inclusion, and technological advancement. The vast majority of notable historical occurrence and achievement has been centered around "dead white dudes." Sorry, but that's just the truth.
It's like those pyramids built themselves, right? Nothing notable there. :lol:
It's like those pyramids built themselves, right? Nothing notable there. :lol:
Too many ‘dead white dudes’? Seattle U students protest program’s curriculum | The Seattle Times
Seattle University dean placed on administrative leave amid student protests | The Seattle Times
Cave story: Seattle U places dean on leave over psychologically abusive focus on dead white dudes – twitchy.com
Uh, that was the name of the black man's book, dumbasses.
How will you ever heal? Here's a participation ribbon to make you feel better.
I seemed to have missed the thriving societies of Africa, the Middle East, and South America, and their rich histories of accomplishment, inclusion, and technological advancement. The vast majority of notable historical occurrence and achievement has been centered around "dead white dudes." Sorry, but that's just the truth.
I seemed to have missed the thriving societies of Africa, the Middle East, and South America, and their rich histories of accomplishment, inclusion, and technological advancement. The vast majority of notable historical occurrence and achievement has been centered around "dead white dudes." Sorry, but that's just the truth.
There is a ton of profound and relevant literature from non-Western sources. No reason why a curriculum should completely center around Western philosophies. I think the students have a good point in demanding a more diverse curriculum. I don't think they have a legitimate reason to be calling for resignations.
its idiotic. its nothing more than nihilistic contrarian idiocy by people who need to be hit in the face with the cold wet pontoon of reality.
Good point, we should bring back slave labor.
Yep, and that was covered at my university. Yours?
Are you really so oblivious as to believe it is impossible that the reason you "missed those thriving societies" is because you were raised in a society that did not teach those cultures to you?
If you're being required to read Plato for four different courses and you're not majoring in ancient Greek philosophy, yeah... you have a point in demanding a more diverse curriculum.
Universities need to stop legitimizing these dumbasses.
Yes, but the topic is a University that it's not included at.
Yes, that was exactly my point. :roll:
MatteoRicciCollege said:The Humanities curriculum is scaffolded so that students start with the fundamentals of reading, writing, speaking, and thinking, then grow upward and outward towards more specialized classes. Students complete the humanities core as well as an area of concentration, which can be any subject area including but not limited to science, engineering, business, nursing, education. More than 80% of the BAH majors build their chosen area of concentration into a second degree.
There is a ton of profound and relevant literature from non-Western sources. No reason why a curriculum should completely center around Western philosophies. I think the students have a good point in demanding a more diverse curriculum. I don't think they have a legitimate reason to be calling for resignations.
The college within that university centers on philosophy. What great philosopher roamed Africa or South America during the days of Plato or Aristotle?
That's what has these stupid kids in a tizzy. They're hopelessly mind-controlled and brainwashed.
Too many ‘dead white dudes’? Seattle U students protest program’s curriculum | The Seattle Times
Seattle University dean placed on administrative leave amid student protests | The Seattle Times
Cave story: Seattle U places dean on leave over psychologically abusive focus on dead white dudes – twitchy.com
Uh, that was the name of the black man's book, dumbasses.
How will you ever heal? Here's a participation ribbon to make you feel better.
I seemed to have missed the thriving societies of Africa, the Middle East, and South America, and their rich histories of accomplishment, inclusion, and technological advancement. The vast majority of notable historical occurrence and achievement has been centered around "dead white dudes." Sorry, but that's just the truth.
It's like those pyramids built themselves, right? Nothing notable there. :lol:
Augustine of Hippo for one.
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