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Speaking of chaos on campus: Loyola faculty member

Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:53 am
Posted by upgrayedd
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Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:53 am
Apparently this lady was offered a job at AZ State to lead the school of journalism, but some students lodged some complaints and forced ASU to rescind the offer.

Anyone know the details behind these accusations?

quote:

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona State University rescinded a job offer to the newly hired dean of its prestigious journalism school following allegations of racism and mistreatment of students.

University Provost Mark Searle said in an email Sunday that Sonya Forte Duhé would not lead the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, The Arizona Republic reported.

Duhé was scheduled to take over July 1 as the school’s dean and CEO of Arizona PBS.

Duhé faced accusations from nearly two dozen former students at Loyola University in New Orleans, where she was the director of the School of Communication and Design.

The students told the State Press, Arizona State’s student newspaper, that she engaged in behavior they found racist and discriminatory toward students of color and LGBTQ students.

More than two dozen of the college’s most prominent faculty signed a letter to university President Michael Crow over the weekend saying Duhé becoming dean would harm the school’s reputation and finances and affect students’ ability to succeed.

An online petition started by students calling for the university to retract Duhé’s job offer garnered nearly 4,000 signatures.

Duhé has not responded to requests for comment during the past week.

Committee members had “high confidence” they selected the right person for the job when a search committee chose Duhé, Searle said.

“I now find that the future of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and our public television station will be better served by not advancing with Dr. Duhé as their leader,” Searle wrote in the email to the Cronkite community.

Searle said he will announce an interim dean this week.

The Cronkite school’s previous longtime dean, Christopher Callahan, accepted a position as president of the University of the Pacific in California.


LINK

I have a sneaking suspicion someone is railroading this lady for other reasons.
This post was edited on 6/8/20 at 10:54 am
Posted by fr33manator
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Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:54 am to
We need to cancel cancel culture
Posted by Fat and Happy
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Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:56 am to
If those complaints came out of no where suddenly after she was offered the job, i would be very suspicious of the validity of them
Posted by jonboy
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:56 am to
quote:


I have a sneaking suspicion someone is railroading this lady for other reasons.



She's probably Catholic and attended mass...that's enough for some.
Posted by upgrayedd
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Member since Mar 2013
139236 posts
Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:57 am to
I have a feeling she was accused of wrongthink and now they're trying to ruin her career. I could be wrong, though.
Posted by Swagga
504
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Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:58 am to
Higher ed is dead. Its becoming nothing but an indoctrination into liberal policy.
Posted by ell_13
Member since Apr 2013
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Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:58 am to
You had to click through multiple articles, but this one actually has details.

quote:

All 23 students who spoke to The State Press said it was well known within the School of Mass Communication and Design that Duhé made microaggressive comments that touched on race, sexual orientation and body weight toward students who went “against the grain.”

Whitney Woods, a 2015 Loyola graduate with degrees in journalism and English, who tweeted the initial critical response to Duhé, said in an interview she doesn’t think Duhé ever had the intention to recognize wrongdoing or apologize.

“It was proven by the reaction (from my peers) that I got on Twitter,” Woods said. “It was something I couldn’t let live any longer because to speak specifically to Black lives and call out good cops in the same sentence, and then to say I hope my students are doing well, that never translated to compassionate feeling.”

Woods said she was deeply involved with the school and thought she’d created a very close, open and honest relationship with Duhé. But in various classes discussing the appearance of Black women in broadcast television, Woods became more aware of Duhé’s behavior.

“Not once was she, or did I ever feel like, she was a genuine POC ally,” Woods said. “She never advocated for any students of color, not a single one. She never took any of them under her wing. She never mentored them. And to have her be a dean of students in our current climate in 2020 would be a disservice to their education.”
Posted by toosleaux
Stuck in Baton Rouge traffic
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:58 am to
She's white so she had to do something racist or offensive at some point, somewhere.
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
68609 posts
Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:59 am to
quote:

she had to do something racist or offensive at some point, somewhere.

She ordered some burgers from White Castle
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
139236 posts
Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:00 am to
quote:

All 23 students who spoke to The State Press said it was well known within the School of Mass Communication and Design that Duhé made microaggressive comments that touched on race, sexual orientation and body weight toward students who went “against the grain.”
quote:

“Not once was she, or did I ever feel like, she was a genuine POC ally,” Woods said. “She never advocated for any students of color, not a single one. She never took any of them under her wing. She never mentored them. And to have her be a dean of students in our current climate in 2020 would be a disservice to their education.”


Ho-lee-frick


I knew it was going to be over some bullshite like this. This madness is completely out of control.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
76209 posts
Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:02 am to
All I know is that with corona lawsuits and the 2020 "racism" lawsuits all hitting the courts at the same time, the courts are gonna need to run some "Help Wanted" ads real soon like.
Posted by tduecen
Member since Nov 2006
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Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:02 am to
The whole thing started because of that? The mob culture is going to ruin a ton of lives like it already has
Posted by REG861
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Member since Oct 2011
38394 posts
Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:02 am to
quote:


quote:
All 23 students who spoke to The State Press said it was well known within the School of Mass Communication and Design that Duhé made microaggressive comments that touched on race, sexual orientation and body weight toward students who went “against the grain.”

Whitney Woods, a 2015 Loyola graduate with degrees in journalism and English, who tweeted the initial critical response to Duhé, said in an interview she doesn’t think Duhé ever had the intention to recognize wrongdoing or apologize.

“It was proven by the reaction (from my peers) that I got on Twitter,” Woods said. “It was something I couldn’t let live any longer because to speak specifically to Black lives and call out good cops in the same sentence, and then to say I hope my students are doing well, that never translated to compassionate feeling.”

Woods said she was deeply involved with the school and thought she’d created a very close, open and honest relationship with Duhé. But in various classes discussing the appearance of Black women in broadcast television, Woods became more aware of Duhé’s behavior.

“Not once was she, or did I ever feel like, she was a genuine POC ally,” Woods said. “She never advocated for any students of color, not a single one. She never took any of them under her wing. She never mentored them. And to have her be a dean of students in our current climate in 2020 would be a disservice to their education.”



Loyola is a preschool for socially maladjusted weirdos. Say what you will about Tulane, but it's an actual university. This is exactly the bullshite I was expecting. Shame the Bensons had to give it a financial lifeline.
This post was edited on 6/8/20 at 11:25 am
Posted by LongueCarabine
Pointe Aux Pins, LA
Member since Jan 2011
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Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:03 am to
Letting the inmates run the asylum.
Posted by jbgleason
Bailed out of BTR to God's Country
Member since Mar 2012
20425 posts
Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:05 am to
quote:

details.


Apparently the professor had the audacity to suggest that students who were going to appear on air should groom themselves and dress appropriately. The exact discussion regarded some of the students allowing their hair to be "natural" which equated to not combing or cutting their afro's. Suggesting that they groom their hair was deemed insensitive and racist.

No word on if or how white girls reacted to the suggestion they groom their locks.
Posted by jimmy the leg
Member since Aug 2007
45341 posts
Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:05 am to
quote:

It was proven by the reaction (from my peers) that I got on Twitter,


This is now considered proof. Wow.

Lester and Mr. Perfect, what are your thoughts on this?
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
139236 posts
Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:05 am to
quote:

Whitney Woods


Here's a little taste of this narcissistic shitbag.

LINK

Posted by Ash Williams
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Member since May 2009
18564 posts
Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:06 am to
quote:

microaggressive comments


jesus

Let's ruin someone' career over what we perceive to be racism because of "microagressive comments"
Posted by Packer
IE, California
Member since May 2017
8699 posts
Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:09 am to
I don't want to be another TD member to get subpoenaed, but the School of Comm and Design at Loyola was a very difficult dept to work with to say the least.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
139236 posts
Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:11 am to
quote:

Apparently the professor had the audacity to suggest that students who were going to appear on air should groom themselves and dress appropriately. The exact discussion regarded some of the students allowing their hair to be "natural" which equated to not combing or cutting their afro's. Suggesting that they groom their hair was deemed insensitive and racist.

No word on if or how white girls reacted to the suggestion they groom their locks.



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