Terps possibly moving to Big Ten ? what ?

[demopublican]

I fully understand that the media and the victim oriented people pushed the idea that it was a noose.

But since that incident and the two mystery incidents in your other story:

L

oh said an elevator in an academic building was vandalized with anti-Semitic messages and that a campus facilities supervisor found a noose hanging in a space that was being renovated.

Can't even be blamed on students since the "crimes" were never solved. Quite possibly it was faculty, staff, or visitors. Some of which may be angry that the students are so rich.

[slapshot]

I fully understand that the media and the victim oriented people pushed the idea that it was a noose.

But since that incident and the two mystery incidents in your other story:

L

Can't even be blamed on students since the "crimes" were never solved. Quite possibly it was faculty, staff, or visitors. Some of which may be angry that the students are so rich.

Clarification - not my story. Washington Post story.

Yes, anything is possible, but the data doesn't support your theory:

http://www.newsline.umd.edu/schools/...ions100107.htm

"By Arelis Hernandez and David Byers
Maryland Newsline
Monday, Oct. 1, 2007

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Though the appearance last month of a lynch-noose outside the Nyumburu Cultural Center at the University of Maryland was shocking, police reports show the hate crime was not an isolated incident.

A survey of campus police records for the past five years show that anywhere from five to 15 hate crimes have been reported a year -- ranging from racist comments scrawled into doorways and on dry-erase boards to racially charged exchanges between students. In June 2005, police records show, anti-semitic letters were sent to several people in an office in Tydings Hall.
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University police spokesman Paul Dillon said 10 hate crimes have been reported on campus this year. He added that the publicity surrounding the noose has put a spotlight on race relations, but does not show a systemic racism problem on campus.

The noose was discovered Sept. 6 hanging from a tree just outside the cultural center. News of the incident spread quickly, prompting responses from students and campus officials during a “speak out” rally."

[demopublican]

Not really

A survey of campus police records for the past five years show that anywhere from five to 15 hate crimes have been reported a year -- ranging from racist comments scrawled into doorways and on dry-erase boards to racially charged exchanges between students. In June 2005, police records show, anti-semitic letters were sent to several people in an office in Tydings Hall.

Arguments between students are between students. The rest of that stuff sounds unsolved as well.
But obviously racism only happens at UMCP or in the ACC.

I love this line!

Roger Candelaria, campus compliance officer for the university human relations office, said the key to ending racism is to forget race altogether.

Said the official commenting on the incident outside the black cultural center.

[slapshot]

Not really



Arguments between students are between students. The rest of that stuff sounds unsolved as well.
But obviously racism only happens at UMCP or in the ACC.

As I said many posts ago - some anger/resentment or hate of minorities and/or Jews...by other students.

It is, what it is.

My point here is - don't talk to me about "thugs" at OSU. Maryland's chit smells just like everyone else's chit.

[demopublican]

As I said many posts ago - some anger/resentment or hate of minorities and/or Jews...by other students.

It is, what it is.

http://thegrio.com/2011/10/06/michig...-intimidation/

EAST LANSING, Mich. – The campus of Michigan State University has been rocked by recent acts of racial intimidation directed toward black students. The student body at the state’s largest university made their voices very loudly heard on Tuesday night that these acts will not be tolerated.

“The incident that really jump-started this movement was an incident at Akers Hall where someone wrote ‘No Ni**ers, please’ on a door of a young lady’s room,” said Mario Lemons, the president of the MSU Black Student Alliance (BSA). “The residence life staff told us not to talk about. Of course, someone took a picture of it and sent it to one of us.”

http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/r...urdue-building

PURDUE UNIVERSITY, Ind. (WLFI) - "Whoever put that up there probably isn't going very many places in life so they can do whatever they want to do," Purdue student Dubem Mbeledogu said.

"I think it's sad and disappointing that there's so much ignorance here," Purdue student Jeff Ooms said.

Students are speaking out about a second racially charged incident that happened inside Krannert Hall. A Purdue spokesperson said two witnesses saw a group of men write the "n" word on a whiteboard in the Roland G. Parrish Library.

[slapshot]

http://thegrio.com/2011/10/06/michig...-intimidation/

EAST LANSING, Mich. – The campus of Michigan State University has been rocked by recent acts of racial intimidation directed toward black students. The student body at the state’s largest university made their voices very loudly heard on Tuesday night that these acts will not be tolerated.

“The incident that really jump-started this movement was an incident at Akers Hall where someone wrote ‘No Ni**ers, please’ on a door of a young lady’s room,” said Mario Lemons, the president of the MSU Black Student Alliance (BSA). “The residence life staff told us not to talk about. Of course, someone took a picture of it and sent it to one of us.”

Unlike you, I'm not in denial. Unlike you, I appreciate that everyone's chit smells.

[demopublican]

Unlike you, I'm not in denial. Unlike you, I appreciate that everyone's chit smells.

Nevertheless, if you want to play this game, I assure you I can bury you in news clips involving bad behavior just from md students. You started this, but I don't need to look around the ACC....I can find volumes just from Maryland students.

OK, But how does joining the Big Ten cause fewer racial incidents on dry erase boards in College Park?

I guess we could become more racially pure like Iowa.

[slapshot]

http://thegrio.com/2011/10/06/michig...-intimidation/



http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/r...urdue-building

It wasn't a noose at UMCP...TWICE!! ?? ***?

FBI INVESTIGATION. Avereage of 10 hate crimes on UMCP Campus, per year!

Man up and call it what it is...

Stop the spin.

[slapshot]

OK, But how does joining the Big Ten cause fewer racial incidents on dry erase boards in College Park?

I guess we could become more racially pure

It doesn't. But I would think most minorities find the n word written on a chalk board less threatening than the two nooses discovered on the UMCP campus. Just a guess? Both acts are aborhent, however.

[demopublican]

Right. One old string 20+ feet in a tree and one in a construction area.

[slapshot]

Right. One old string 20+ feet in a tree and one in a construction area.

Yes, the noose found hanging from a tree just feet away from the black cultural center was probably put up by jealous faculty. Good one.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=14496865

"A noose, long associated with lynching and racial hatred, was recently discovered hanging outside the University of Maryland's hub for black cultural affairs. The discovery sent shockwaves through the campus. Bonnie Thornton-Dill and Ron Walters — both professors at the university — explain student reaction on campus and how the university is responding."

[demopublican]

It wasn't a noose at UMCP...TWICE!! ?? ***?

FBI INVESTIGATION. Avereage of 10 hate crimes on UMCP Campus, per year!

Man up!

Spin, spin.

Racism exists everywhere. Might there be more at a very diverse university?

Maybe so. But this is all BS anyway. The change is about money and not morals or racism.

[slapshot]

Racism exists everywhere. Might there be more at a very diverse university?

Maybe so. But this is all BS anyway. The change is about money and not morals or racism.

True. As I said a long time go, if it was more about morals, or socio-economic demographics of the students, VaTech would be a better match, IMO.

FYI - here is a close-up picture:

http://www.google.com/search?q=pictu...k7PebGaIlQH-M:


Not sure how anybody could say that was not a noose? But I'm no expert in noose making.

[demopublican]

Bad link but I have seen all of the pictures. A old rotten rope with a knot? Yes.
Noose? Nope.

[slapshot]

Bad link but I have seen all of the pictures. A old rotten rope with a knot? Yes.
Noose? Nope.

Just checked. Link works.

http://www.google.com/search?q=pictu...k7PebGaIlQH-M:

Everybody (ie, news media, UMCP Administration, the FBI, etc) calls it a noose, but you. Odd?

Are you in the noose business?

[slapshot]

Back to the possible move -

I don't think it will happen, but the vote by the Regents should happen tomorrow.

[Terp52]

Just checked. Link works.

http://www.google.com/search?q=pictu...k7PebGaIlQH-M:

Everybody (ie, news media, UMCP Administration, the FBI, etc) calls it a noose, but you. Odd?

Are you in the noose business?

Please show me where, in this wonderful reporting by Electronic Village, does it say the FBI call it a noose. Reports of hate crimes are part of uniform crime reports. These are sent to the FBI. Just because information is shared with them doesn't mean they are investigating an incident. Have any links from some random church bulletin you'd like to use next?

[Terp52]

Not really



Arguments between students are between students. The rest of that stuff sounds unsolved as well.
But obviously racism only happens at UMCP or in the ACC.

I love this line!



Said the official commenting on the incident outside the black cultural center.

And I'll clue you in on another thing: many of these incidents occur in common areas of campus that are open to visitors, so any idiot and stroll on campus with a sharpie and write offensive things on bathroom walls or hallway signs. One of these incidents involved someone writing an offensive word on a dumpster. For all we know the dumpster could have had that on it ( it was in Spanish, by the way) before it they were dropped on campus. Once it's reported it's reported. My point is that this moron Slapshot is trying to use a broad brush on the campus that he reportedly works on. And as for his "noose"' it was seen in the trees by many people but never reported until someone took a cell picture and had a Plant worker take it down. It was thrown away before it could be examined by anyone. The idea that he thinks a jealous faculty member shimmied 30 feet up a tree so he could tie a "noose" on a limb near a cultural center speaks volumes. This guys a clown squeezing his ball nose for attention and should be on everyone's ignore list.

[bmore_ken]

Good for you. We have that option available. Didn't your kids attend Big Ten School?

They did, but neither of them were football players.

[Terp52]

Guess the media would differ. Guess the black students on campus, would differ. FBI?

But whatever you want to believe is OK by me.

But the picture from the ABC article I linked looks like a noose, and that's what they called it. In fact, they even called it a noose in the title of the article.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/t/story?id=3580350&page=1


AGAIN, NOT TRYING TO PAINT MD IN A BAD LIGHT....BUT YOU OPENED UP THIS CAN OF WORMS, NOT ME. I THINK MD IS A GREAT SCHOOL. LET ME BE CLEAR...A GREAT SCHOOL. BUT LIKE EVERY SCHOOL, IT HAS IT's ISSUES AND PROBLEMS.

Writing in all caps doesn't make you right or any more relevant.