Greek Life at the University of Minnesota spent Tuesday working to assure the community it does not condone the actions of fraternity members at the University of Oklahoma after a video was released over the weekend showing OU fraternity members on a party bus chanting racially offensive phrases. The 10-second video clip shows members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) at OU … [Read more...]
University of MN changes crime-alert race-reference policy after criticism
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler announced Wednesday that use of racial descriptions will be reduced considerably in U police crime alerts. The issue has been a contentious one on campus since the student group Whose Diversity? staged a sit-in Feb. 9 in Kaler’s Morrill Hall offices and listed the cessation of racial descriptions in crime reports as one of its … [Read more...]
U of M workers want pay gap closed
Management increases have outpaced those of ‘the people you don’t hear about’ Nearly 20 “frontline” University of Minnesota workers testified February 6 at a forum held at the school’s Coffman Union before three state legislators: Minnesota Senators Jeff Hayden and Patricia Torres Ray, and State Representative Rena Moran. The U of M’s non-faculty workers say they “feel ignored … [Read more...]