RebKell's Junkie Boards

[Ex-Ref]

Is the timing just a coincidence?

http://ndsmcobserver.com/2015/01/hearing-might-transfer/



First read about it here:

http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/more-than-100-notre-dame-professors-speak-out-about-racism/30870158

[ArtBest23]

Unless you have some reason to know it is, that's really irresponsible of you to link the two.

[Ex-Ref]

What is your problem?

With every thing I post?

Are you just an ass or did you have to work at it?

There is nothing wrong with linking them. It's perfectly natural to question it. I thought that it was a nice letter regardless.

And nobody put you in charge of deciding what is irresponsible and what isn't. So until they do, lay off!!!!!!

[ArtBest23]

So when this unfounded and hurtful rumour makes its round of the internet, we'll all know exactly where it started.

Learn the value of the unexpressed thought.

I deleted the quote of your post from my reply hoping you'll have enough class to delete the text of your original post.

[Ex-Ref]

There's nothing there that hasn't been on the internet already.

And if you don't think that Taya was thinking about transferring, you more naïve than you are anything else. Or you're deep in the program and trying to cover something. Which is it?

I'm thinking that someone doth protest too much.

[WNBA 09]

This Is Rebkell People Are Free To Speculate Here Unfortunately. Wether Others Agree Or Not This Is Not Even Close To Half Of The Horrible Rumors Ive Seen Sprout From Here

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3-Time WNBA Champion-3-Time National Champion-4-Time Olympic Champion....And Yes DT "We Got Confeti" lol

[justinabina]

The letter is wonderful---deeply caring of the student(s) to whom it is addressed. It's the kind of action that makes me feel more heartened about education in North America (of course the racism that prompted the letter is incredibly disheartening ).

It is only speculation that the letter might be addressed specifically to Reimer. The speculation might be gossipy, but it doesn't come across (at least not to this outsider) as unkind.

[cthskzfn]

[ArtBest23]

Well, maybe I feel differently about it because an alum I care about the university and its students. The letter is terrific. But if the letter writers or the student involved had wanted the student's name to be known, they would have identified the person. Otherwise, that person is entitled to confidentiality and privacy.

We don't know if this is about an athlete at all, or even whether it's about a man or a woman. It's not like there probably aren't multiple students at any given time considering transferring. It happens all the time at every school. With no factual predicate, I personally consider it highly irresponsible to throw out one well-known individual's name and infer that person considered transferring because of being subject to racism and that the professors' letter is about them.

It's not "logical" at all, and in my view it's simply not right.

What would you think if I made a post asking whether some specific UConn player was considering transferring because she had been receiving hate mail and slurs of some sort? Of course it would be completely fictitious and wrong to imply as much, but it would have every bit as much factual foundation as the OP's post, and I would expect every UConn fan to be outraged by such irresponsible rumor mongering.

Until such time as the student chooses to have their name made public, starting rumors about who it is just is not something I consider at all appropriate.

BTW, the letter itself makes clear that this was not about comments targeting a single student. It says

"We were told you and other students received several racist messages on Yik Yak, the social media app that allows people to post anonymous messages for others to read. We don’t subscribe to Yik Yak, but one of our students shared one of the messages you saw."

[New2UConn03]

I'm a long time member here. I don't think I have ever posted.

Racism is alive and well in this good Ole US of A.

Kudos to those professors. Clearly the results expressed by those few students interviewed on the video indicate that leaders in all walks of life would do well to replicate that message frequently.

[cthskzfn]

[justinabina]

[larmarch5]

I went to the site of the letter and also read the comments, many from ND alumnae who had also experienced or witnessed racist treatment.
http://ndsmcobserver.com/2015/01/hearing-might-transfer/

This article has some general comments from McGraw regarding Reimer's absence related to their loss to Miami. http://www.ndinsider.com/basketball/womens/notre-dame-forward-taya-reimer-is-back-but-are-the/article_f1ce6196-99ef-11e4-ab8a-430ecfd6bd38.html

I believe that although we don't know if this was about Taya Reimer, it could have been. Good news in her performance against GA Tech.

[ArtBest23]

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It's pointless to try. Never mind.

[Trev-E]

[Queenie]

[GlennMacGrady]

I think it's logical to infer that the letter was composed either (a) for a very well-known potential transferee such as a sports star, or (b) because a large group of students "of color" received hate mail and made it widely known within Notre Dame that they were all thinking of transferring.

What other scenarios could have mobilized and motivated 150 professors, one of whom is teacher of First Year Studies, to write such a letter? I doubt that such an effort would have been organized and mounted for one non-athlete student, probably a freshman, in the English department, for example.

[ArtBest23]

[beknighted]

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[Trev-E]

[Lillian Hidgepork]

Clearly this was written to Taya and others. I certainly dont condone calling others out by name but to say anyone should not speculate on a message board about a topic is to defeat the intent of the board.

I personally thought this was a very bad idea, the protests that is, and thought that there would be problems as this case was not cut and dried as the officers I believe were cleared of any wrong doing. To put yourself out on a national stage before the facts are all in is not very smart on a University or even as a person and if things are different than what is being portrayed then you will get back lash from whackos and sane people alike for bad judgement.

[ArtBest23]

[Queenie]

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