% >> ALL RIGHT.
% PROFESSOR, THANKS VERY MUCH.
% >> MY PLEASURE.
% >> TURNING TO EDUCATION,
% ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR STATE
% COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES MAY
% REPORTEDLY BE HELD HOSTAGE BY
% REPUBLICANS IF THE UW SYSTEM
% DOES NOT AGREE TO ELIMINATE
% OFFICES RELATED TO DIVERSITY,
% EQUITY, AND INCLUSION, A TREND
% BEING SEEN NATIONWIDE.
% THIS NEWS COMES THE SAME WEEK A
% SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO OF A UW
% MADISON STUDENT HURLING RACIST
% SLURS HAS GONE VIRAL.
% OUTRAGE OVER THE STUDENT'S
% COMMENTS PROMPTED PROTESTS ON
% CAMPUS AND A LIST OF DEMANDS
% FROM THE STUDENT-LED BLACK POWER
% COALITION, DELIVERED TO THE
% OFFICE OF UW MADISON CHANCELLOR,
% JENNIFER NOOK KIN, INCLUDING
% ACADEMIC ACCOMMODATIONS, MENTAL
% HEALTH RESOURCES AND COMPULSION
% OF THE STUDENT IN THE VIDEO.
% >> I WOULD SAY THAT A LOT OF
% STUDENTS' INITIAL THOUGHTS WERE
% SHOCK, CONFUSION AND PAIN.
% EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, ACTS LIKE
% THESE ARE NOT UNCOMMON HERE AND
% WE DECIDED THAT THIS WAS THE
% TIME TO REALLY BAND TOGETHER IN
% ORDER TO MAKE THESE THINGS NOT
% CONTINUE TO BE A REOCCURRENCE.
% AMONOOK KIN'S RESPONSE ACKNOWLED
% HARM CAUSED BUT SAYING AS TO THE
% INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE RACIST
% VIDEO, THERE ARE NUMEROUS LEGAL
% CONSTRAINTS, BOTH ON WHAT WE CAN
% SAY AND WHAT WE CAN DO AS A
% PUBLIC UNIVERSITY, EVEN THOUGH
% THE VIDEO IS BOTH HATEFUL AND
% HARMFUL, I KNOW THAT IS NOT WHAT
% YOU WANT TO HEAR, BUT WE ARE