Monday, April 24, 2017

Citing racial strife, students at wealthy colleges demand reparations - The College Fix

Citing racial strife, students at wealthy colleges demand reparations - The College Fix
"Financial compensation, affirmative action, more money for therapy
Students who attend a wealthy and elite cluster of schools in Southern California are demanding various forms of reparations, citing racial strife and other injustices they allegedly face.
Image result for racial reparationsVarious student factions at the private consortium  — which costs an average of more than $50,000 annually — have lodged demands to make right ills they claim to face at the “5Cs” as its known among students, consisting of Pomona, Scripps, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd and Pitzer colleges.
...The various forms of reparations some students seek for the oppression they say they face includes financial compensation, affirmative action and more money for therapy.
...Racial strife has also hit Harvey Mudd, the math- and science-focused campus among the 5Cs.
Campus leaders recently cancelled classes for two days to go over “long bottled-up tensions about workload,” Inside Higher Ed reports, adding in its April 18 article: “minority students issued demands to administration — among them to funnel more money into counseling services, specifically geared toward students of color, and to prioritize minority student groups with funding and other perks.”..."
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