Hope for the future? You decide.

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Below is the list of demands that one student group has offered to the administration of their college:

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Winter housing, no charge, with free food


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Segregated housing for students of color,
that will increase in size with demand


·        
Basic toiletries for all


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Free meals in a variety of restricted
options, for any students in need, including grad students


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Staffed food pantry for 300 students per
semester. (Somehow this is in addition to the free meal
plans?)


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Kosher kitchen


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Full-time staff position as administrative
liaison for first-generation college students


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Increase in book, travel, and internship
stipends


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Redesign the website to be available in more
languages and for more non-traditional students


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Free storage over summer


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Free health insurance


·        
A first-year (that’s
freshman for all you non-Sarah Lawrence people, because we’re egalitarian like
that) seminar about intellectual elitism and classism


·        
Reduction in some tuition-based fees


·        
Extra info sessions for international
students who don’t speak English


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Off-campus transit to storage locations and
therapy sessions


·        
Seminars on American taxes for international
students and counseling for the same


·        
Admit more students with financial need from
the Global South, with recruitment efforts


·        
Expand international scholarship funds


·        
Give international students jobs on campus
since they are not legally allowed to work in the United States  (but if they’re not allowed to work in the United States, and the
campus isn’t some specialized diplomatic zone…you see the conundrum).


·        
Two new tenured professors in African
diasporic studies, but only one each of Asian, Latinx, and indigenous
backgrounds, who will then teach courses in the areas of their ethnicity. (Do they get to teach other stuff? Or must their ethnic and racial
backgrounds determine what they can teach?)


·        
Stop taking money from the Koch
Brothers. (So this is interesting: The Diaspora
Coalition would like the college to spend a grand heap of money, but also would
like to give some back? This money isn’t good enough? Is the board supposed to
find pure money somewhere? Untouched by heathen hands? Perhaps soaked in the
blood of young virgins who died for their purity?)


·        
Revoke tenure for Professor Samuel
Abrams (He wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about how school administrators
are leftist…crickets? Yeah, me too.)


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Add specialized diversity staff, hired only
from a pool of people of color, per Title IX: a dean, a director, and an
assistant director


·        
Three new therapists, of specific ethnic and
racial backgrounds (if they’re on campus, then who
do the students need rides to?)


·        
Annual diversity training


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Scholarships specifically for students of
color for the full four years


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An endowment set aside for these scholarships


·        
Annual fundraising goals for the
endowment (oh, for sure, yeah, the president of the
college and the board don’t try desperately to fund raise as much as possible
already. And hey, look how successful they were with the Koch Brothers? Oh,
wait, yeah, let’s give that money back, shall we? Good call. Pats on backs all
around the daisy chain.)


·        
Stipends for the students with the
specialized scholarship, and private housing, and a meal plan, and field trips
throughout the year! (Who doesn’t love a field
trip?)


·        
Meet all financial needs of all students of
color (Is this before or after the funds are secured in the endowment?)


·        
Guaranteed work study (Maybe someone wants to be the new dean? Or drive those cars to
therapy? Staff the food pantry? Best way to make some jobs, spend some money
you don’t have.)


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$500 per semester to eight identity specific
student groups. (So $8,000 per year for segregated clubs!)


·        
Land acknowledgment. (Sure, surprised we didn’t have this already, frankly.)


·        
No repercussions for missing work study or
class for participating in protests. (Because yeah, no one should
have to make tough choices or prioritize one thing over another.)

[Guest]

[Guest]

That should help control the cost of college education.

[Guest]

What, no free medical insurance, guaranteed income while being a student, guaranteed job after graduation, etc. etc.

[Guest]

@"ThunderGod" said:
What, no free medical insurance, guaranteed income while being a student, guaranteed job after graduation, etc. etc.

I don't think you read the whole list...

[Guest]

Hmmm.

Well, the costs for college have tripled in the last 3 decades...and while I'm not an entitlement fan, higher education costs are beyond ridiculous and maybe they should offer more for the money.