LongTermGuy
03-20-2015, 04:45 PM
http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/...to-6139786.php (http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-Berkeley-black-students-demand-fixes-to-6139786.php)
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`All but one of the demands directly addresses the well-being of students. The other seeks to rename Barrows Hall — which houses Ethnic Studies, Women’s Studies and African American Studies— for Shakur, who was convicted in 1977 of first-degree murder in the 1973 killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpik. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was granted political asylum in Cuba in 1984, where she has lived for more than 30 years. Two years ago, the FBI placed Shakur on its Most Wanted Terrorist List and doubled the reward for her capture to $2 million.
In 2013, Shakur declared her innocence and called her trial a legal lynching by an all-white jury.
The students call Shakur “an icon of resistance within oppressed communities (who) represents Black resilience in the face of unadulterated state-sanctioned violence.”
Barrows’ legacy
David Prescott Barrows, an anthropologist, served as president of the University of California from 1919 to 1923. A UC Berkeley research paper from 2014 says that when the regents argued against the rising population of Asian and other non-Euro American immigrants at UC, “Barrows offered a formal plea for cultural diversity among the university’s student population.”
The paper does conclude that, “in most areas of university management, Barrows was arguably inept and his tenure, as a result, was short.”
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`All but one of the demands directly addresses the well-being of students. The other seeks to rename Barrows Hall — which houses Ethnic Studies, Women’s Studies and African American Studies— for Shakur, who was convicted in 1977 of first-degree murder in the 1973 killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpik. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was granted political asylum in Cuba in 1984, where she has lived for more than 30 years. Two years ago, the FBI placed Shakur on its Most Wanted Terrorist List and doubled the reward for her capture to $2 million.
In 2013, Shakur declared her innocence and called her trial a legal lynching by an all-white jury.
The students call Shakur “an icon of resistance within oppressed communities (who) represents Black resilience in the face of unadulterated state-sanctioned violence.”
Barrows’ legacy
David Prescott Barrows, an anthropologist, served as president of the University of California from 1919 to 1923. A UC Berkeley research paper from 2014 says that when the regents argued against the rising population of Asian and other non-Euro American immigrants at UC, “Barrows offered a formal plea for cultural diversity among the university’s student population.”
The paper does conclude that, “in most areas of university management, Barrows was arguably inept and his tenure, as a result, was short.”
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