Black Mizzou football players go on strike

Nope. They all just started writing and didn't bother to fucking call anyone.

UPDATE: Swastika drawn with human feces found in MU residence hall


COLUMBIA — Someone drew a swastika with human feces in a bathroom of MU's Gateway Hall early on Oct. 24, according to a Residence Halls Association statement.
Residence Halls Association President Billy Donley released a statement about the incident on Twitter. He described the vandalism as "an act of hate."
MU spokesman Christian Basi declined to confirm the nature of the vandalism citing an open investigation.
“It was some vandalism that was discovered several days ago in a residence hall in a restroom,” he said Friday.
Basi also said that the vandalism was reported immediately to the MU Police Department, and that it started an investigation right away.
MU Police Major Brian Weimer said that the investigation was ongoing, but that nothing linked this incident to another anti-Semitic episode in April. He encouraged anyone with additional information about the investigation to contact the department.

 

Nope. No source. Lazy fucks.

Adia Woodson, a freshman living at Gateway, said she found out about the incident from a poster put up by the residents hall's elevators.

“It’s disgusting,” Woodson said. “This incident shouldn’t have happened. The individuals responsible for this don’t deserve to be on campus. It creates a threatening environment for all residents of Gateway, not just students of the Jewish faith.”

Jeanne Snodgrass, executive director of Mizzou Hillel, a nonprofit organization and Jewish campus center, said she was contacted by Residential Life about the incident.

“Unfortunately sometimes things happen, and I think that the university is responding appropriately and dealing with it very seriously,” Snodgrass said.

Jordan Kodner is an executive for both Zeta Beta Tau and Chabad, a Jewish student organization on campus. He said he found out about the incident when he was at Hillel and someone brought it up right after it happened.

"A lot of people are very confused, especially with this particular one — using feces," he said. "I know that kind of confused a lot of people. It just seems very odd — were they trying to send a certain message with it?”

He said he hopes the incident will be a wake-up call about anti-Semitism on campus. He said he is upset that it is usually downplayed.

Kodner doesn’t feel threatened because nothing violent has happened yet.

"I feel like it's just forgotten about or not talked about, when it really should be," Kodner said. "Just like any racism case against any type of minority, it should be discussed and it should be on national media.”

The executive board of the Jewish Student Organization discussed the issue during a meeting at Hillel on Friday evening. The members said there needs to be more public awareness about what had happened.

Thalia Sass, the president of Jewish students' group, said at the meeting that she found out about the incident from a Maneater reporter. She then confirmed it with Snodgrass, she said.

"I still think that when something like this happens, Jewish students feel threatened," Sass said. “I was actually really mad about this because I heard about it from a Maneater reporter. It happened on the 24th, and we’re only talking about it now? Why wasn’t JSO contacted earlier by Residential Life?”

The group plans on speaking to the residents of Gateway Hall during a mandatory residential meeting on Monday evening. They said they plan on talking about the history of the swastika and how it relates to Jewish people and the Holocaust.

It also plans on reaching out to the Legion of Black Collegians for a social media campaign using the hastag #hateliveshere.

The board also plans on organizing an event at Speakers Circle on Nov. 6 to hand out bagels and cream cheese. Slogans that were suggested for this event include "Spread Cream Cheese, Not Hate."

“When we stand in front of them and say, ‘I am Jewish, this affects me,’ it changes things,” Jared Kaufman, the social action chairman , said. “I think that visibility is very important.”

 

Colleges sound like terrible places:

 

I'm not sure BDC99 even read the excerpts he posted.

 

How so, troll?

 

It's been only a day since you admitted that you don't do the required legwork yourself.

Nice work, Cronkite!

 

This gives comic ineptitude a bad name.

 

The right wing media is part of mainstream media. When you control radio and cable news, you're mainstream.

Rush, Hannity, the WSJ and Fox News are not underdogs.

 

Has anyone thought that maybe the poop swastika was a shot at Nazis and not Jewish people?
I realize that's probably not the case and I might be giving Nazis a bit too much leeway when it comes to intelligence, but wouldn't a Star of David in crap be a more appropriate visual insult than a swastika in this instance?

 

I'm still trying to figure out why African-American students got more worked up over the swastika than Jewish students.

 

Me too. The reason and the reaction are relevant discussions, but the idea that it never happened is absurd.

 

That also struck me as odd.