She wont be on here no time soon. As a matter of fact i doubt if she will ever come back.Quote:
Originally Posted by anonymoussonny
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She wont be on here no time soon. As a matter of fact i doubt if she will ever come back.Quote:
Originally Posted by anonymoussonny
I agree. It is a private college and those types of issues could quickly send the school image into a downward spiral.Quote:
Originally Posted by TVSURFER
We have to look at the big picture here.....
They may loose grants, private funding, recruitment, etc. behind closed doors on this issue if they did not react publicly. I hate that this is being made into a gay rights issue. IMO, if it's allowed and not contained, the school will loose its credibility and eventually meet it's demise. A lot of potential bright students and African American leaders of tomorrow would not go to Morehouse if they heard this was going on. Where would that leave our black institutions?
I believe that people have the right to express themselves, but to a certain extent - especially on private property. I agree that I don't think this is an attack on people's lifestyle/sexual identities. I think it is a restriction on a couple of students taking things to the extreme. My alma mater for instance, would allow a dress code up until a certain degree. If I went into an institution and a group of students decided to sport gang tats and colors on campus, the school would crack down on it. How is this any different? If they went into a 6 figure corporate job trying to cross dress, they would be booted. Why? Image. If the institution/business doesn't want their image to be displayed like that, they have a right to crack down on it on campus.
More conservative students have the right to study without distractions just as much as the cross dressing students have the right to dress the way they want to. So it's a stalemate. However, I think this is the proper solution and the school has a right to enforce this code.
At the end of the day, if those 5 students do not like it - just leave and contribute your tuition to a university that isn't so conservative. It's going to be really futile and ultimately damaging on the national stage to one of the only prestigious colleges we have as a people. It's not worth it.
#1 - If federal funding gets snatched, so be it that is a choice Morehouse is making and honestly, given its graduates and endowment, it will do just fine I think.
#2 - If this is a question of gender identity, why did these students choose to go to, arguably, the most conservative HBCU FOR MEN, in the country? I empathize with them, but they chose to go to men's college despite being transgendered. That doesn't seem like a good choice.
#3 - I don't think this will cause a national outrage from the GLB community, the transgender community or the Black community. Most folks realize that Morehouse is conservative and not really the place to go if you are transgendered. Its almost like saying as an atheist, you decided to go to school at Bob Jones University.
Just my two cents.... now back to looking at phat asses and "shenises". :D