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At one point, the president of the university, Edison O. Jackson, interrupted Ms. DeVos to warn protesting students that if they continued to boo, your degrees will be mailed to you.
Ms. DeVos did not directly acknowledge the protests in her address at the historically black university, though she did say the Trump administration would continue to support HBCUs.
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/students-boo-turn-their-backs-on-devos-at-bethune-cookman-speech/118303
coco22
(1,258 posts)RESIST!!!
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)I was hoping for video.
sheshe2
(83,770 posts)Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)So mail it. You can't expect people to happily choke on the shit coming from DeVos.
ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)I didn't even go to commencement. All 4 times. Just mail me the thing.
And, if they're already there, what kind of empty threat is that? I don't the Uni president thought his statement all the way through
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)There's a lot of that going around today in D.C..
ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)Bluster with little substance.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)That is going to make the ship sink even quicker as no competent person will take a job with the administration. Not that they are looking for competence in the first place.
obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)Not just because WHAT TEH ACTUAL FUCK IT IS DEVOS, but also how Trump has said he is cutting out funding for HBCUs.
What THE HELL was BC's Admin thinking?!
And fuck that traitor Jackson -- he cannot withhold diplomas. Treating adults like they are tantrum-throwing children.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)It is appalling.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)That stupid and politically insensitive. Geez, he kind of pissed on the graduating class...sorry he ruined their special day...but proud they stood up.
aikoaiko
(34,170 posts)demmiblue
(36,853 posts)This is THEIR commencement, inviting DeVos despite the legitimate concerns/feelings of many of the graduates is such a shite move.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)if they had all just stood up at once, said, "Mail us our degrees", and left.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)demmiblue
(36,853 posts)Look at the stance/body language of several of the faculty members. Wow!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Their dissent.
https://m.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)and softly sing The Battle Hymn of the Republic or This Land is Your Land
BumRushDaShow
(129,013 posts)First Amendment and all that.
JHan
(10,173 posts)I come to your Uni, agreed to give a speech, yeah I'm full of shit but still.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Giving Duh Vos an honorary degree cheapens their degrees, IMHO.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Are they sucking up out of fear that DT may unfund them?
obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)He needs to be fired, both for inviting DeVos, and for speaking to the graduates and their families like that.
benld74
(9,904 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)In the meantime, every time they leave their bubble, they're reviled and protested.
Says a lot about the verity of their positions.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)RESIST ✊🏾
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)Gamecock Lefty
(700 posts)The hell with that. They EARNED those diplomas. They'll get them right there.
Damn the establishment.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,857 posts)Big deal.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Not exactly sure why, but maybe there was no one around who cared to go, like family, or even myself. It's a much bigger celebration these days, as it seems I'm being invited right and left, and they go on for days. Same w weddings. Commercialized. Plus, if families and friends travel far, it is a reunion.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,857 posts)it becomes logistically difficult to make sure the correct diploma is handed to the graduate. Unless they are all lined up alphabetically. Or they know the order in which the kids are lined up so the diplomas can be set up the same way. Since most of the time the order is quite random, mailing them is probably the norm.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)...that the students didn't bring eggs or tomatoes with them.
They were, however, wearing shoes. And I wouldn't have blamed them one bit for giving the Bitch DeVos the same treatment that W received almost nine years ago!
Cha
(297,240 posts)Machiavellian idea was this to have her there?
Mahalo to all the Students who protested!
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)I'd frame the envelope and hang it next to the diploma.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)fishwax
(29,149 posts)DeVos is profoundly unqualified for her position, but seems intent on not letting that keep her from working hard to undermine the integrity of public education in this country. I'm proud of the students for not taking that bullshit sitting down.
niyad
(113,312 posts)person.
ecstatic
(32,704 posts)Best_man23
(4,898 posts)I would have said, fine, mail it to me. Better that than shaking that woman's hand.