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It was great seeing everyone on the Oval today. May I ask that in future gatherings we acknowledge resources that are in place at Ohio State that report, prevent, and educate on bias incidents:

It is important that we mention the Bias Assessment and Response Team (BART). (link:…

This is one of the many things the Multicultural Center does! We also base the content of next year’s programming based on the type of bias that has been reported.

The MCC is also a wonderful venue to come for discussions on diversity and inclusion. Build community with those who share a same identity as yours or to learn/ expose yourself to the life of others. Conversations include anything from Interfaith, Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, Disability, and more!

Check out our website at mcc.osu.edu and make sure to report your experience or witness to bias!

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Student and Faculty Response to Hale Center Vandalism

On last night, April 4, 2012, the 44th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death, students and concerned individuals from the wider community gathered peacefully for a vigil to reflect on the recent racialized hatred and terror that has captivated our nation’s attention. In particular, people assembled to remember Trayvon Martin and Shaima Alawadi, who both lost their lives due to senseless violence that should not be tolerated in an enlightened society (Martin was shot to death by George Zimmerman while visiting his father; Alawadi was killed inside her own home by an unidentified group that left a message promoting racial prejudice against Muslim Americans). Thus, the goal of the event was not only to pray for our nation at this critical time, in consideration of these incidents, but also to examine how we all could promote better understanding between diverse communities. 

Yet, as these groups convened on campus to ponder these issues that have animated the national spotlight, various HATE advocates were ostensibly organizing to make these contemporary racialized improprieties more palpable for our local community here at The Ohio State University. Some of these individuals came to the vigil with the sole intent to terrify those persons who had congregated to calmly respond to racial injustice. If this intimidation was not sufficient, other persons came and left a permanent marker signifying their racial intolerance. The Frank W. Hale Center, long a safe space for students of color to come together, was defaced with the words, “LONG LIVE ZIMMERMAN!”

These words are troubling. The vandalism is unsettling. The racism behind these words, however, is even more disturbing. These egregious episodes should not be accepted at an institution of higher learning such as The Ohio State University, and represent a type of thinking that permits racism to persist in our communities. 

We, the faculty and students of The Ohio State University, vigorously denounce this racist act and want to make clear that HATRED WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. The members of this campus, and people throughout the city of Columbus, will neither be intimidated by this incident nor pressured to abandon our support of those causes aimed at promoting racial equality, justice, peace, and understanding. We shall remain vigilant in the pursuit of impartiality and call on the ENTIRE Buckeye community—administration, faculty and staff, students, and the school’s broader group of supporters—to join with us. 

We appreciate President Gordon Gee’s response to the vandalism that took place and his willingness to utilize institutional resources for the purposes of investigating this incident. But we see this incident in a larger context of hatred, and feel that this racial prejudice must be vehemently condemned and that every effort must be made to extinguish these deplorable acts from taking place on our campus. In the coming days, we will be meeting to discuss how we as a community can address these issues and move forward.

On behalf of concerned faculty and students at The Ohio State University, 

Thomas Albright, M.A. Student
Leslie M. Alexander, Ph.D.
Curtis Austin, Ph.D.
Tamara Butler, Ph.D. Candidate
Camille Dantzler, M.A. Student
Rashida Davison, Undergraduate
Lilia Fernandez, Ph.D.
Liseli Fitzpatrick, M.A. Student
T. Anthony Gass, Ph.D. Candidate
Gisell Jeter, Ph.D. Candidate
Thomas Lee
Michael Marsh, Undergraduate
Doneri Mayhay, Undergraduate
Dawn Miles, Ph.D. Candidate
Tyran Steward, Ph.D. Candidate
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ph.D.

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OSU Hale Hall Vandalized

Let’s be clear. This is an act of terrorism, a hate crime. If enough is enough and you are tired of the systemic hate that is pitted against each other, reblog please. If you are an OSU student, please join me in action tomorrow, Friday, April 6th. We will meet at the Frank W. Hale Black Culture Center tomorrow at 3:45pm for a sit in at 4pm in the Ohio Union. Our demands are simple:

1. Install a hate crime alert email system. All students need to be aware and certainly many may be threatened by such an act and should be alerted.
2. Hired more faculty of color/sabor/ international. We want to see ourselves represented in the curriculum, departments, programs, etc. 
3. We want everyone to be included, not tolerated. Kinda speaks for itself.

This is not official the language or anything, honestly these are my notes from the town hall meeting today. We want many different changes and places for acceptance but we decided to narrow it down, obviously. 

Please, if you go to Ohio State, show up tomorrow. If you can’t, please stay involved in the conversation. The nation of tomorrow is depending on us, the whole world is watching.

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