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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those thinking about Haverford should google “Haverford student strike.” It seems a pretty nasty climate there these days where students are interfering with and aggressively preventing other students from even attending classes.[/quote]

This is outdated information.  The school got through it and it was an important learning experience for both students and the administration.[/quote]

Outdated how? This happened last school year. For the sin of wanting to attend class or participate in club activities, students were threatened, harassed and called racists by their peers. And the school's administration did not do anything to stop it.[/quote]

Ok, Ivanka.  [/quote]

Odd response. The strike and the intimidation of students by other students was well reported, you can look it up. But feel free to try to offer some alternative facts if you want to deny reality, Kellyanne.[/quote]

I mean the point is, yeah, it happened.  And, ultimately, it was dealt with.  Luck of the draw that it happened there.  [b]Every one of these SLACs have the kind of students and administrations where something like that could easily occur.[/b]  It's really odd that you're so focused on this one event at this one SLAC.  Odd to the point of sounding obsessed and silly.

And, to be clear, I have zero -- and I mean zero -- connection to Haverford.  I'm the poster who sent a kid to Grinnell, where I have no doubt the very same thing could also happen there someday, if it hasn't already.   [/quote]

Disagree. This entire discussion thread has emphasized that there are in fact distinctions among these SLACs. And an underlying campus climate is not one event. Rather, the climate can lead to events such as that which occurred at Haverford, where a group of students essentially hijacked the school and shut it down for an extended period of time.[/quote]

The differences that have been being discussed here are more about the intensity of the academic experience than anything else.  Point me to one SLAC -- one -- where there isn't an "underlying campus climate" of institutional racism.  You can't, because no school is immune from what's going on in our larger society.

I've read the utterly tone deaf email that Haverford administrators sent to students urging them not to dare venture downtown to participate in protests against police brutality against black men.  If I were AA, I'd want to shut my school down and make people listen too.

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