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Taehan Mingook
Jan 1970
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Sometimes even a good leftist like me looses patience with people and I reminded of all the very good reasons why PCU was filmed at Wes. Thought this would provide some entertainment for people here...
http://www.wesleyan.edu/argus/
RA selection process for 200 Church criticized
by Mark Radosevich
Production Manager
A community meeting in Woodhead Lounge on Sunday afternoon that was convened to discuss the future of 200 Church St., formerly Chi Psi, focused instead on criticism of the selection of the house’s residential advisors (RAs). Dean of the College Freddye Hill called the meeting along with a student group that has been pressing the administration for several changes relating to the experience of students of color at the University, including the creation of an Office of Multicultural Affairs.
Most of the thirty students in attendance supported the suggestion that the selection process for the house’s RAs be reopened. Hill replied that it was both too late to reopen the process and unfair to the RAs who are already under contract. There are two RAs currently assigned to 200 Church St. and a third will be hired, Hill said.
There was little question that the central issue was the race of the RAs.
“As a white person, I do not want white RAs there,” said Micah West ’05, adding “I will protest that to the very end.”
West was not alone. “I do not want white people there,” said Danielle Dixon ’05. Dixon added that she personally could be comfortable with having a white RA in a house designated as a safe space for students of color, but believed that other students of color would feel differently.
“I’m a little concerned over the claim over who should be there,” Hill said.
Some argued that white RAs could not understand the situations faced by first year students of color, to which Hill said, “I haven’t heard anyone that I’ve talked to claim expertise.”
The participants of the meeting also could not agree on the purpose of the house. Hill suggested that the housing could be “a place where students would confront issues” related to multiculturalism, adding that she feared that students in housing designated as a safe-space, which many of the students argued for, might feel “expected to support whatever position unfolds” on such issues.
Hill was unable to answer questions about the meeting before this issue went to press.
“I’m glad I came here to hear all this,” said Patrick Welsh ’05, one of the RAs assigned to 200 Church St. If a first year student of color wants “to live in a place where it’s all students of their color, I think they have that right,” he said. “I am not welcome.”
According to an email announcement of the meeting from Hill, “the purpose of the meeting is to discuss plans for developing programming in first-year residential areas next year and proposals to transform 200 Church Street into first-year-student housing in which first-year students, living together, will engage in discussions and programming around the multiplicities of identity, oppression, and privilege from the perspectives of students of color and other underrepresented students.” The proposals include the possibility of a new center to address concerns specific to students of color that may be housed within 200 Church St.
Several students criticized the handling of their concerns by administration, including the Office of Residential Life (ResLife).
“It is so unbelievably bogus that Jeff [Ederer, Director of Residential Life] is not here,” said Liz King ’03 after the meeting.
Ederer could not be reached for comment.
Although most of the students at the meeting have been coordinating their efforts for most of the discussions with the administration, the opinions were not expressed unanimously.
“I feel that every freshman should have one year of forced diversity,” said Justin Rogers ’05. “They can self-segregate for three years.”
“It’s not self-segregation,” replied Hetert-Qebu Walters ’05. “You said you were lucky to live in a diverse dorm…This isn’t a place where you shop for diverse cultures. Are we taking into account the feelings of the students of color on this campus? That’s priority number one.”
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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002
time: 21:28
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this school should be nuked
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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002
time: 21:28
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wait youre right gepap. we should round up all the people that live in this house, and their supporters, set the house on fire and then shoot anyone that tries to escape.
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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002
time: 21:28
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if black people want seperate housing because of attitudes like that then i feel sorry for the weak emotional state of black people in america.
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Bosh
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Taehan Mingook
Jan 1970
time: 00:28
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This is what happens well you live in hippie-lefty-ville, Boshko |
It is 
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Incidentaly, how is it that the University can get away with segregated dorms? |
OK, the deal is we have "program houses" where sophomores and up can live (which include Asian/Asian-American House, Chinese House, Sign House, Out House, Womanist House, Women of Color House, Open House, Chi Psi, Malcolm X House, etc. etc.). The current residents get to choose who lives there the following year. This means that the bulk of these houses tend to be of a certain demographic but its never 100%, for example I live in the Bayit (Jewish program house) and I'm not Jewish.
Now the exception was that of all the houses only Malcolm X House was allowed to have frosh live there. This year the university changed that so that the same rule that applied to all the other program houses and a lot of people were annoyed that black students could no longer avoid living with whites for their entire 4 years and demanded that the university change something.
This is the first I've heard of the administration's solution, namely making what used to be Chi Psi (they didn't own their house and got kicked out of it for doing thigns like dumping 500 pound bags of sang all over the floors for a beach party and whatnot...) an "intercultural" dorm for frosh. And now it appears that many students think that intercultural means white-free 
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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002
time: 21:28
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even though im about to go to an art school, i would also hate to live in a hippyville. most my friends go to UC Berkeley or UC santa cruz and they say that there are too many damn dirty hippies on campus.
i can smell them from here.
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