Current Position:Home >> Media Reports
Release Date: June 11, 2017 Click:2981 Source:UOU News Center

Racial prejudice sparked anger at American universities and the

resignation of several presidents

  According to US media reports, instances of racial discrimination and prejudice have raised protests in universities across the United states. Social media also sent students' comments across the campus.
  University of Missouri
  After Timothy, M, Wolf, President of the University of Missouri, resigned, students and faculty agreed that they needed a new approach to fighting the increasing racism.
  In November 9th, the head of the University of Missouri system resigned. In the weeks before, racial protests caused the school to nearly collapse, including dozens of black rugby players threatening to boycott the games. University of Missouri President Timothy - M - Wolf fedun all "in the event of the promotion for my resignation to heal, to communicate again". Later that day, the president of University of Missouri at Columbia R Bowen Loftin also resigned.
  Yale University
  Some Halloween costumes are considered offensive to some cultures. This month, the parties debated whether the administration was sufficiently sensitive to be concerned about the matter. In the debate, ethnic clashes, which have been brewing for weeks, broke out. Many students who met Su Bide, the president of the school, said they did not believe the school took care of the needs of minority students. A long-running debate is being held at the school, which deals with a residential college named after John C Calhoun.
  Calhoun was a politician in South Carolina in nineteenth Century, and a Yale 1804 student. He also openly preached white superiority.
  University of California at Los Angeles
  October, University of California at Los Angeles - upsilon sigma. Love the brotherhood and sisterhood of Alfa frank love students held a Kanye West themed activities. Students, including white people, were dressed like Kanye West, dressed in loose clothes, or like Kardashian sisters, dressed in tight fitting clothes and padded over their hips. That week, protesters rushed to the school administration, shouting, "black bears are important too."".
  In a statement to the The Daily Bruin, the school warned students to think twice before making moves that might offend classmates of different races.
  University of Michigan
  In February 2014, hundreds of students from University of Michigan and faculty gathered together for a 12 hour "free speech" campaign to combat racial tensions. The cause of this outbreak is a contradiction, including Asian and white brotherhood, plans to hold a party invitation, "rapper, Shakira dancers, gang members and other people in the street bottom.
  University of Oklahoma
  In March, two students were dismissed because the lead singer in a racist song and. The song provoked anger across the country. Later, the brotherhood said it would investigate the use of related slogans by other university students.
  Arizona state university
  The University official ordered a fraternity member to drop out of school. The Brotherhood was implicated in a January 2014 celebration of Martin Ruud Kim's birthday. At the party, students wore baggy shirts, waved gang signs, and drank from hollowed out watermelons.