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Mal_Fet
04/22/18 8:33:48 PM
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"it would hurt them mentally"

https://reason.com/blog/2018/04/20/duke-students-alumni-protest-university

Two dozen student activists crashed an alumni event at Duke University on Saturday, using a megaphone to make their demands and drown out the speaker, Duke President Vincent Price. The students were surprised to discover that their interruption had irritated many alumni in the audience, some of whom heckled the activists and turned their backs while the demands were read.

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Readers may find it remarkable that these students expected the other people in the room to applaud and validate them for derailing the event. The students also think the university should refrain from punishing them, because any punishment would contribute to their mental health problems. According to Nuzzolillo:

"I think we are particularly concerned that the University knows that by sending these conduct letters out that they will be concerning the students and that they will be exacerbating any pre-existing mental health conditions and, like Bryce said, traumatizing and starting new ones, especially after Saturday's issues. I think that among the many things that we share in common with the administration, the number one thing is that we all want to see this University be better and be more accommodating and make changes. We're not sure why they're not taking that approach too and reaching out to us in good faith rather than initiating a conduct process."

Hear that? Don't punish belligerents who do bad things, because if you hold them to any kind of standard, you could, like, give them PTSD or something!
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Muffinz0rz
04/22/18 8:34:16 PM
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Vertania
04/22/18 8:35:34 PM
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TheCyborgNinja
04/22/18 8:35:53 PM
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I wish we could borrow Singapore's police to discipline unruly crybabies. Let them be unable to sit down for two weeks and tell them to deal with it.
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kingdrake2
04/22/18 8:40:38 PM
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Spooking posted...
I would kick them out of the university. Brats think the world revolves around them.


there's a price to pay for actions one does to another they should of thought about not doing what they did.
they make their bed. they have to sleep in it.
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LightningAce11
04/22/18 8:43:12 PM
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kingdrake2 posted...
should of

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Atralis
04/22/18 8:43:12 PM
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How can you justify this kind of protest at a $50,000+ a year private university?

This kids are mostly either rich or on some affirmative action scholarship (economic or race based). They literally said "whose university, our university". No it fucking isn't. This is a rich kids private school. That is definitively what Duke is and always will be.
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Nomadic View
04/22/18 8:47:15 PM
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Muffinz0rz
04/23/18 1:23:17 PM
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Vertania posted...
Muffinz0rz posted...

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Cj_WlLL_VVlN
04/23/18 1:25:03 PM
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Spooking posted...
I would kick them out of the university. Brats think the world revolves around them.

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FLUFFYGERM
04/23/18 1:26:12 PM
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Cj_WlLL_VVlN posted...
Spooking posted...
I would kick them out of the university. Brats think the world revolves around them.

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