Condemning Racial Discrimination, and Election Reforms: SU Senate Meeting 10/21/09
If you've read Student Life today, you've seen that six seniors on the Senior Class trip in Chicago this weekend were racially discriminated against at a bar (http://www.studlife.com/news/2009/10/18/students-protest-race-discrimination-at-bar-in-chicago-during-senior-class-trip/). The news release Senior Class President Fernando Cutz sent to 26 media outlets yesterday morning is attached below as well. In response, Senator Jake Laperruque is co-sponsoring a resolution on the issue with Fernando, which Senate will see on Wednesday-- this is also attached below. Jake, Senator Matt Aiken, and I will also be investigating racial profiling at Wash U over the next week or two. Please come and let Senate know your feelings on the issue at our meeting Wednesday at 9PM in Simon 113, or email us beforehand at senate@su.wustl.edu .
Senate will also be reviewing election reform legislation tabled from last week's meeting. In addition, Senate passed a number of reforms at our meeting last week that Treasury will be voting on tomorrow night. All are included in the document that is attached.
| Attachment | Size |
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| Resolution Condemning Racial Discrimination.doc | 23 KB |
| PressRelease.doc | 22.5 KB |
| List of Election Reforms (10-14-09), rev. A.doc | 69 KB |
| Senate Agenda 10-21-09.doc | 679 KB |
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Comments
The resolution should include "color" as well as race. Race, as we know, is a social construct, so skin coloring is what we really mean. Also, the other 200 people allowed to enter were not exclusively "white" as the resolution states. We cannot continue to ignore the presence of other people besides black and white when "race" comes into question.
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