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Bias Reporting System at Wake?

It's designed to catch incidents of white people being discriminated against by even whiter people.
 
Watch it or you might be reported to the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Keeper must be rolling in his grave.
 
But for junior Brittany Salaam, the system has already been helpful. Salaam filed a bias report on the new system to report a party, which she believes had an offensive theme. She felt that the administration acted swiftly to help resolve the situation.
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bitches be reporting the pimps and hoes parties
 
But for junior Brittany Salaam, the system has already been helpful. Salaam filed a bias report on the new system to report a party, which she believes had an offensive theme. She felt that the administration acted swiftly to help resolve the situation.
“I think that they responded quickly, which is kind of the point of the bias reports,” Salaam said. “Though, I’m not sure if was the actual bias report itself or myself and many other student who did it because I also contacted a specific person in the administration. So I don’t know whether it was the bias reports or that person that responded so quickly to the event that was planned to be held but I do think the bias report had something to do with it.”
Salaam also sent out an email to fellow students, which encouraged them to also file bias reports if they shared her sentiments regarding the controversial theme party. Typically the names of those who file a bias report will be kept completely anonymous, but the email linked Salaam’s name to the report, which many students unfairly blamed as the cause for the party’s cancellation.
These students then took to the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak to air their anger. Many of the messages, some of which were racially-toned, specifically targeted Salaam.
Because of the confidential nature of bias reports, Salaam blames the email she wrote. She is fearful that the backlash on Yik Yak may prevent other students from filing reports.
“[It is a fear of mine] is a fear of mine for the student body,” Salaam said. “Now people won’t want to speak up about things that they see and that they hear because they’re afraid what happened to me will happen to them.”
But Salaam believes that once more students know about the new system, it could end up improving the campus culture. “I think that if students knew more about [the reports], it would benefit us,” she said. “I think the system itself is a good thing.”

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From yesterday:

To the Wake Forest community,

In my first year at Wake Forest, many people — students, faculty and staff — took time to tell me what was special about Wake Forest, and for that I am grateful. It helped me begin to know this place in a deeply meaningful way. Others took the time to tell me what they think is wrong about Wake Forest, and for that I am even more grateful. Wake has a quest for excellence, and in that quest we must be fearless in our ability to look honestly and constructively at our community.

One of the most searing moments of my first year was a Town Hall meeting, organized by students last spring, to share concerns about bias and mistreatment from university police. Their stories were poignant and painful, and they underscored what I had already learned: that not all Deacs feel the same sense of inclusion. As one African American student had said to me, “Oh, we feel welcome, Wake is a welcoming place. We just don’t feel valued.” This must change.

As a previous message to the community sent by Assistant Provost Barbee Oakes and me stated, the recently released report investigating bias in the police department was conducted by independent consultants. What is clear in reading this report is that we have much work to do to improve our police interactions and to gain the trust of the university community. This pressing need connects us to a national conversation about injustice in our country, as it should. These actions have already begun, and include comprehensive bias training for police personnel, recruiting for diversity in the department, independent investigations of complaints, and improved community relations and communication. (See Appendix A for a more complete list of actions.)

In addition to the steps being taken to improve policing, we are creating opportunities to listen closely to student concerns and pursue a more just community, including an upcoming Deliberative Dialogue on Campus Climate led by the Pro Humanitate Institute. Bias incidents are receiving prompt response due to our new on-line Bias reporting option. A group of student leaders are working with the Pro Humanitate Institute to bring Sustained Dialogue to the Wake Forest campus. Intercross-cultural capacity educational oportunities are being developed by the Office of Diversity and Insclusion and the Center for Global Programs and Studies. Below you will see our division’s strategic priorities. These will guide us through the challenges we face together.


• Lead a comprehensive approach to student and community wellbeing
• Integrate civic engagement and responsibility locally and globally
• Foster an inclusive culture of peer engagement, leadership and accountability
• Cultivate a community where all students feel a sense of belonging and are valued contributing members
• Prepare students to lead in a diverse environment with cultural fluency

It has been my life’s work to partner with students to strengthen a shared sense of community and inclusion. I and my colleagues pledge to work side by side with interested and committed students to create a healthy climate for all. I invite you to share your thoughts about how best to accomplish this critical goal. Working together, I know we can accomplish it.

Please join me in renewing our commitment to creating a truly engaged and inclusive community characterized by student ownership and engagement.

Sincerely,

Penny Rue
Vice President for Campus Life
 
From today:

Dear Wake Forest,

Last February, Melvin Washington (’14) delivered a senior oration titled, “Who is Wake Forest?” During Melvin’s provocative remarks about the power of diversity he said, “I walk past the same majestic chapel, wait in the same long lines at Subway, take some of the same classes, and in May I’ll cross the same stage, but our Wake Forests are different. Our Wake Forests are different because our experiences are different. Our experiences are different because we’re all different people. However, there is beauty in that difference and its intersections where we all consider ourselves Deacs.”

Over the past several weeks, students from different races and backgrounds have united under the banner of “Forward Together” to demand action and accountability for a Wake Forest that will stand together, in the intersections of our different experiences, and proclaim that racism, bias and cultural insensitivities will not be accepted as part of the Wake Forest experience.

As students took to social media, raw emotion, aggression and defensiveness drowned out the mutual desire for justice, inclusion and equity. Emotion is a sign we care. We care about issues of identity and race and about being understood. All of us – faculty, staff, students and administrators – care.

All of us came to Wake Forest to learn. We pride ourselves on educating the whole person and extending learning beyond the classroom. Now is the time to put our holistic approach to education to the test.

I encourage you to learn from each other. Avoid the anonymity of social media for the weekend and talk to someone with a Wake Forest experience different from your own – face to face. Take the time to read the action steps currently being implemented by University Police and Campus Life, distributed yesterday by Vice President Penny Rue. Embrace the opportunities to live in the intersection of our differences.

Wake Forest will be better for your efforts.

Sincerely,

Nathan O. Hatch
President
 
Knowing the KKKA's, then yes it probably was for real.
 
Are ugly girl parties (the intentional kind) still allowed? They used to be called pig parties, but the Sig Ep's changed the meaning of that term.
 
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