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Black students interrupt Univ. of Kansas Town Hall in wake of Missouri protest



A grassroots student group interrupted University of Kansas’ chancellor at a Town Hall meeting on diversity Wednesday, listing 15 demands to a packed auditorium and overflow room of about 1,000 students, faculty, staff and top-level administrators.

KU joins a growing list of colleges struggling to confront their racial climates in the wake of University of Missouri System president Tim Wolfe’s resignation Wednesday evening ...



http://college.usatoday.com/2015/11/12/black-students-interrupt-univeristy-of-kansas-town-hall/


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Group calling themselves #rockchalkinvisiblehawk on stage reading "demands." #kuconvo



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Students protest racism at Emory University, list demands for administration


Police lights on Clifton Road illuminated the silhouettes of standing students, who were blocking traffic and chanting “black lives matter” as part of a campus protest on Wednesday evening.

In response to recent unrest at the University of Missouri, at Yale University and in South Africa, undergraduate and graduate students voiced their concerns about race relations on Emory’s campus ...



http://college.usatoday.com/2015/11...y-university-list-demands-for-administration/




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Brown University Students’ Poisonous Uprising Against Their President

After an alleged assault on a visiting Latino student, the last thing Brown students wanted to do was listen to President Christina Paxson’s words—instead they shouted her down and menaced her



... He then threatened Paxson and her administrators, saying, “I didn’t think what happened at Mizzou could happen somewhere else, but with the way things are going, you, too, are liable to be in a position that is precarious.” The audience broke into thunderous cheers ...



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...isonous-uprising-against-their-president.html

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Here’s what students of color across the US are demanding from their universities


Students at schools across the country skipped class today (Nov. 18) to demand institutional change from their universities. The movement, referred to as #studentblackout on social media, was organized by student activist group Black Liberation Collective and comes on the heels of a wave of student movements to show support for students at the University of Missouri last week...


http://qz.com/554064/heres-what-stu...nding-from-their-universities/?utm_source=YPL

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UCLA students show solidarity with protesters at the University of Missouri on Nov. 12.(AP Photo/Nick Ut)


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Missouri students want to help pick new university leaders


COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Some University of Missouri students told the system's governing board Friday that they want to play a part in deciding who will be the next chancellor at the flagship campus in Columbia and the next president of the university system, and said the school needs more faculty of color ...


http://news.yahoo.com/missouri-students-want-help-pick-university-leaders-022421113.html

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Concerned Student 1950 member Shelbey Parnell speaks during a Board of Curators listening session on Friday, Nov. 20, 2015, in Columbia, Mo. Students laid out concerns and suggestions about dealing with racial issues on campus. (Daniel Brenner/Columbia Daily Tribune via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT


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