A group of student leaders released a list of recommendations Friday that call on the University of California Board of Regents to promise more cultural and supportive services for marginalized groups as a modification to the UC‘s Statement of Principles Against Intolerance.
The UC Council of Student Body Presidents, Student Regent Avi Oved and Student Regent-designate Marcela Ramirez did not have specific recommendations for support and cultural programs in mind.
The Statement of Principles Against Intolerance dictates the UC is dedicated to upholding respect, inclusiveness and academic freedom, among other principles. In September, the UC regents created a working group composed of regents, students and faculty, to discuss changes to the statement.
The regents established the working group after some members of the Jewish community said they were concerned the statement did not do enough to condemn anti-Semitism, and called for the adoption of the U.S. Department of State’s definition. Some academics have said adopting the state department’s definition of anti-Semitism, which includes acts that demonize, delegitimize or hold Israel to a double standard, would infringe on academic freedom and prevent any criticism of Israel.
Student leaders also recommended the regents prioritize the continued diversification of students, staff and faculty in the updated statement. According to the recommendation, doing so would reduce feelings of isolation and improve cross-cultural understanding.
In the recommendation letter, members of the council wrote they don’t think maintaining academic freedom and freedom of speech should get in the way of fostering an inclusive university environment without fear and intimidation.
Heather Rosen, president of the undergraduate student government and undergraduate chair of the UC Council of Student Body Presidents, said student government leaders from each campus suggested recommendations at their student senate and council meetings over the past few months.
Rosen added the council wants to ensure the Statement of Principles Against Intolerance isn’t too broad and can address the needs of each campus’ students by including more specific language.
“We want to make sure that the (statement) isn’t just ‘don’t do this’ or ‘don’t do that’,” Rosen said. “We want to make sure it includes the narratives and experiences of students, that it shows a concern for students at the community level.”
Rosen also said she wants the language in the statement to ensure University administrators consistently respond to acts of intolerance by mandating a response within a certain time period.
The working group is still working to modify the language of the statement.
Compiled by Ryan Leou, Bruin contributor.
As one who spoke at the Regents meetings at UC Irvine and UCLA on this issue, it needs to be pointed out that this entire issue has come to the fore as a result of one specific problem-campus anti-Semitism. The original draft by the UC provost and vice provost was so generalized that it had no meaning. Anti-Semitism was not even addressed, so it was soundly rejected in spite of support from the pro-Palestinian lobby.
Anti-Semitism on campus is the worst “ism” problem in the universities across N America, and it is thanks to the efforts of the anti-Israel lobby-which sadly includes some misguided Jews.
Best thing to do, if Jew baiting is not to be dealt with, is to get rid of the charade that there should be any restrictions on the first amendment at all. Let the KKK talk as it wishes about Black people as well as Jews.
And it is free speech as long as there is no incitement that directly results in violence. However, when someone like Washington DC imam Mohammad al Asi tells an audience at UCI in 2001, “You can take the Jew out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the Jew”, it is incumbent on the university leadership to step in and state unequivocally that this is hate speech and must be condemned. The university also has a First Amendment right.
That thar right is almost never exercised when it comes to Jews. Tell me something. Don’t you think the Danzig138 is a skin head? No hair above the ear that I can see.
No idea.
Take a look & see.
Cite your sources, including the ones that you use to treat being against the policies of Israel as also being against Jewish people. Thanks.
The main thing is to see how the current Jihadists, who include the Muslim Brotherhood (part of the BDS crowd), stem from fascist propaganda. To see this, why not discuss the text “Islam & N a z i Germany’s War”?
Here’s the first paragraph of chapter 2.
Max von Oppenheim’s memorandum of 1940, in many respects an adapted version of his plan of 1914, created few ripples at the Foreign Office. 1 In his response, Under State Secretary Theodor August Habicht informed Oppenheim that the “questions raised are already being considered in detail at the Foreign Office.” 2 In reality, until then, German officials had shown little interest in the Middle East and even less in the wider Muslim world. Neither Hitler’s foreign policy schemes, which he had developed before 1933, nor any strategy of the 1930s, had made such a policy necessary. 3 Hitler’s plans were focused on eastern Europe. allies.
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This paragraph shows that the propaganda effort began in earnest as a result of the war effort. Of great interest is your name.
Danzig happens to be the German name of the Polish city, Gdańsk. Dolphin & his merry brownshirts used the supposed “rights” of Danzig to justify the conquest of Poland.
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