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7 days ago, the University of Missouri president resigned amid controversy over his handling of racial protests. 7 months ago, Ball State was forced to face its own issues of diversity. Today, many are asking:
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MARCH 16, 2015 The university sends out an email announcing the winner of the Emens Outstanding Senior Award.
SEPT. 12, 2015 Payton Head, president of the Missouri Students Association, posts on Facebook saying he was called the N-word by a group of people riding in the back of a pickup truck on campus. Thousands of people share the post.
2 HOURS AFTER THE INCIDENT Senior architecture major Huy Pham posted a screenshot of the email next to a 2013 Ball State Daily News article in which the winner defended owning a Confederate flag. 2 DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT Supporters of the winner use #WomanCrushWednesday to highlight the OSA winner’s good deeds. 3 DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT Protesters use #ThrowbackThursday to create a social media campaign drawing comparisons between the OSA winner’s defense of the flag and the culture of hate the protesters said it represents. 7 DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT Student leaders, led by SGA chief of staff Chris Taylor, send a letter to Ball State administration highlighting their displeasure with the university’s decision, saying the choice ignores a section of the Ball State student body. It also included an excerpt from an email Vice President for Student Affairs and Director of Student Life Jennifer Jones-Hall sent in which she implied SGA could lose funding if it made a statement against the university.
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week ago, the president of the University of Missouri stepped down after weeks of protests sparked debate about the administration’s handling of racially-charged incidents. Protests and discussions have spread to campuses across the nation, some showing solidarity with Mizzou students and others pointing out undercurrents of racism and maltreatment on their own campuses. Today also marks seven months after Ball State grappled with its own issues of race after a former SGA President, who had publicly defended her ownership of a Confederate battle flag, was awarded the Emens Outstanding Senior Award.
4 DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin publishes a message in response to criticism saying the university was not responding adequately to the incident. He said, in part, “hate has no place on the Mizzou campus.” 23 DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT Legion of Black Collegians members post online about being called racial slurs while practicing for a Homecoming performance. Loftin posted a video condemning the incident.
Fewer than two hours after the university announced the winner, senior architecture major Huy Pham posted a screenshot to Facebook of the email announcement next to a 2013 Ball State Daily News article in which the winner defended owning the flag. The flag had since been thrown out, but the university’s selection created a social media outcry that paralleled a years-long national debate about race and prejudice. In the week that followed, various university groups waged social media campaigns aimed at showing the history of prejudice and oppression they said the Confederate
26 DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT After meeting with the Legion of Black Collegians, Loftin announces a new online diversity program all incoming students will have to take starting next semester. 28 DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT Students who are part of a group called Concerned Students 1950 protest during the university’s Homecoming parade by blocking the University of Missouri system president Tim Wolfe’s car.
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Student organizes vigil for victims of attacks SGA assists in honoring people lost in killings
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After the terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad over the weekend, there will be a vigil at 5 p.m. today at Frog Baby to pay respect to the victims whose lives were lost. Christina Thibodeau, a sophomore international development and relations major, organized the vigil. SGA will be partnering with Thibodeau to organize the event. “I want to give people a chance to pay their respects for the victims of the three attacks we’re focusing on and also raise awareness of what’s happening and how the media has been ignoring the attacks in Beirut and Baghdad,” Thibodeau said. “[What happened in] France is definitely a big deal, but other people need to be acknowledged too.” Approximately 200 people were killed and hundreds more injured in the three attacks due to ISIS bombings and gunmen.
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battle flag represented. A group of student leaders, led by SGA chief of staff Chris Taylor, sent an email to President Paul W. Ferguson challenging a culture of white privilege and the university’s failure to “consider certain populations.” Within two weeks of the award winner announcement, more than 100 people attended two Beneficence Dialogue sessions aimed at allowing students to voice their concerns on diversity. The talks culminated in “Hope & Healing at Benny.” Ferguson pledged the dialogues weren’t an end but just a beginning.
OFFICER FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES
An active reserve officer with the Muncie Police Department was arrested Saturday in Fishers, Ind., on charges of rape, battery and human trafficking. Lonny Jordan Hatland, 42, was arrested and transported to the Hamilton County Jail Saturday. He was removed from the reserve unit effective Saturday, Muncie Police Chief Steve Stewart said in a press release. “He is no longer associated with us effective with his arrest [Saturday],” Stewart said. Hatland had served as a city reserve officer since 1994. Lonny Hatland According to a release from the Fishers Muncie Police Police Department, the Department of Department Child Services contacted officers about reserve officer “a juvenile suffering from various injuries.” The victim said over the past few months, Hatland had coerced her into having non-consensual sexual encounters with other men, and that she had been physically and sexually assaulted inside a residence on Shoe Overlook Drive in Fishers. Fishers police served a warrant at Hatland’s home Saturday and “discovered the suspect was an active reserve officer with the Muncie Police Department.” After speaking with detectives, Hatland was arrested and taken to the Hamilton County Jail. His bond is set at $52,500. This is an on-going investigation, and additional charges may be filed, according to the press release. – STAFF REPORTS
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Signs and messages of support have been left at a memorial at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C., for the victims of the Paris terror attacks. People gathered in cities around the world to show support for Paris following the coordinated assault that left at least 129 people dead and more than 350 injured.
In Paris on Friday, 129 people were killed after the deadliest violence on its soil since World War II, according to the Associated Press. Seven attackers launched gun attacks at Paris cafes, detonated suicide bombs near France’s national stadium and killed hostages inside the concert venue during a show by an American rock band — an attack CONTACT US
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on the heart of the pulsing City of Light. In Beirut, two suicide bombers attacked a suburb that is a stronghold of the militant Shiite Hezbollah group on Thursday, killing at least 43 people in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years in Lebanon. In Baghdad, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide blast and
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a roadside bombing that targeted Shiites on Friday, killing a total of 26 people and wounding dozens. Also Friday in Baghdad, a roadside bomb detonated at a Shiite shrine in Sadr City, killing at least five people and wounding 15, police officials said. Hospital officials confirmed the casualty figures.
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