teedubbya
9 years ago
I couldn't tell if the event was really no whites or if that is just how fox characterized it. He said no whites but then when he read it he listed off a bunch of minorities that of course didn't include whites. That wouldn't necessarily mean whites couldn't attend, simply the focus would be on those minority groups which makes sense.

Not saying the report was wrong.... perhapse it really says no whites or excludes whites... I just couldn't tell.

Remember when Brit Hume was a legitimate reporter and Oreilly was on hard copy or whatever competing against Maurys inside addition?
DrafterX
9 years ago
I dunno... 🤔

Asked for additional information, such as whether white students may attend, the cost of the retreat, and about how many students will attend, Melinda Aquino, associate dean of multicultural affairs in Columbia College and Columbia Engineering Undergraduate Student Life, gave a statement on the benefits of the event in an email to The College Fix.

“The Students of Color Leadership Retreat is a long-standing annual program for undergraduates at Columbia and Barnard,” Aquino stated. “The program, which is geared towards any student who self-identifies as a student of color, provides structured activities and guided exercises that enable participants to build community and reflect on their abilities to effect positive change within their own lives, within student organizations, within the Columbia University community, and within society at large.”

Aquino pointed out the Office of Multicultural Affairs also hosts other leadership and community-building programs and retreats that meet the needs of “all students interested in diversity and identity,” including an LGBTQ leadership retreat and an “Intergroup Community Building Initiative” retreat, aimed at creating a more “cohesive” Columbia that affirms “all identities and creates a space for healthy discourse about divisive issues.”


I'll take that as a no.. 😟
teedubbya
9 years ago
kind of unclear huh? my guess is that can't say definitively no but can strongly discourage the crackahs
DrafterX
9 years ago
the black panthers with bats might discourage them also.... 😟
teedubbya
9 years ago
like dracula or ram?
DrafterX
9 years ago
I don't think either one would be allowed to go... 😟
cacman
9 years ago

“The Students of Color Leadership Retreat is a long-standing annual program for undergraduates at Columbia and Barnard,” Aquino stated. “The program, which is geared towards any student who self-identifies as a student of color, provides structured activities and guided exercises that enable participants to build community and reflect on their abilities to effect positive change within their own lives, within student organizations, within the Columbia University community, and within society at large.”

DrafterX wrote:


Isn't "white" a color?
DrafterX
9 years ago
Technically I think white is the absence of color... 😟
banderl
9 years ago
In the visible spectrum, white reflects light and is a presence of all colors, but black absorbs light and is an absence of color.
You're welcome.
DrafterX
9 years ago
so, the black people can't go..?? 😕
TMCTLT
9 years ago



“The Students of Color Leadership Retreat is a long-standing annual program for undergraduates at Columbia and Barnard,” Aquino stated. “The program, which is geared towards any student who self-identifies as a student of color, provides structured activities and guided exercises that enable participants to build community and reflect on their abilities to effect positive change within their own lives, within student organizations, within the Columbia University community, and within society at large.”



Is this now known as " the Lena Dunham Effect " :-"


jjanecka
9 years ago
I identify as a fighter jet. Does that mean I can't go?
victor809
9 years ago
So... It doesn't say you can't go. What's the issue?

Probably are retreats geared towards bible crap, or engineering or other random crap too.

Stuff like this makes the complainants sound like the whiny child wondering why his little sister is getting a present on her birthday and he isn't.
teedubbya
9 years ago
why isn't he?
victor809
9 years ago
Because he's fat and stupid and his parents don't like him as much....
DrafterX
9 years ago
poor CROS.... 😞
banderl
9 years ago
Poor Carib1!
tonygraz
9 years ago
Mr. Jones
9 years ago
CROS WASN'T INVITED...

HE GOT SO PISSED THAT HE DRESSED UP LIKE A CRAZY CLOWN AND WHEELED ACROSS THE STAGE DURING THE OPENING CEREMONY...

EVERYONE fled and went home.

^^^ RETREATED FROM THE RETREAT
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