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Letters to the Editor: SCSU is unjust
Published:
Thursday, September 26, 2002
SCSU position announcements claimed, “SCSU is committed to excellence and actively supports cultural diversity. To promote this endeavor, we invite individuals who contribute to such diversity to apply, including minorities, women, GLBT, persons with disabilities and veterans.”
The following defies the above: (1) A black art faculty member was fired for lacking a degree that no other university in the world required (costing tax payers $150,000 compared with the faculty members $330); (2) A native American faculty member won a profitable settlement plus 50 riot police arrested 11 unarmed passive protestors (including a 2-year-old child) costing tax payer’s $8,000 plus prompt dismissal of charges; (3) The applied Psychology majority refuse to include contributions by black psychologists and suffered untold humiliation and a second departmental split; (4) A black staff member was forced out for incompetence of previous officials; (5) The Business College’s only black faculty member won an embarrassingly lucrative settlement plus legal fees; (6) A conniving attempt to replace a black faculty member in sociology with a less qualified white male was thwarted; and (7) Currently, there are two more targeted blacks.
15 revealing, humiliating, and documented letters were sent to high school counselors last February. Ex-mayor, Larry Meyer, said (St. Cloud Times, 15 May, 1988), “Cooper” and “a very small group” fabricate “stories to students and all who will listen.” SCSU public relations and city administrators might be more successful (while costing tax payers far less) by confronting racist messages rather than targeting messengers. When cries of foul and threats of “MnSCU discipline” whetted media appetites, instead of only 15 counselors reading our letters, 300,000 people again became aware of St. Cloud’s racism. Larry, is 300,000 “a very small group?”
Myrle Cooper,
Faculty member, retired
Michael Davis, Faculty member
