A Greek Life retreat at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) was promptly cancelled this weekend after a banana peel was found hanging in a tree. A student said he threw the peel because he could not find a garbage can, but the incident made some students uneasy, so the school “felt it was imperative to provide space immediately to students affected by this incident.”
A Greek Life retreat at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) was promptly cancelled this weekend after a banana peel was found hanging in a tree.
“To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset by what occurred at IMPACT,” Interim Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Alexa Lee Arndt remarked in an email between Greek leaders, according to The Daily Mississippian. “Because of the underlying reality many students of color endure on a daily basis, the conversation manifested into a larger conversation about race relations today at the University of Mississippi.”
“To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset by what occurred at IMPACT,” Interim Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Alexa Lee Arndt remarked in an email between Greek leaders, according to The Daily Mississippian. “Because of the underlying reality many students of color endure on a daily basis, the conversation manifested into a larger conversation about race relations today at the University of Mississippi.”
"To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset by what occurred.".......To Read More.....
My Take - A banana peel was found in a tree and academia Greek life was crushed? Really? If there ever was an example of how academia needs cleansed - this it. If their goal is to turn out cry babies who have to hide in "safe places" everytime something "offends" them - and the list of things that seem to offend them grows incrementally - then they've become a completely successful enterprise.
If their goal was to turn out real men and women prepared to face the real world's trials and tribulations - then they're an abysmal failure. It's time we stopped financing higher education and make them all become for profit institutions recognizing they've now become viper's pits of social disintegration.
My Take - A banana peel was found in a tree and academia Greek life was crushed? Really? If there ever was an example of how academia needs cleansed - this it. If their goal is to turn out cry babies who have to hide in "safe places" everytime something "offends" them - and the list of things that seem to offend them grows incrementally - then they've become a completely successful enterprise.
If their goal was to turn out real men and women prepared to face the real world's trials and tribulations - then they're an abysmal failure. It's time we stopped financing higher education and make them all become for profit institutions recognizing they've now become viper's pits of social disintegration.
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