>> 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