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Title: Clemson University Apologizes For Offending Mexicans By SERVING TACOS
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Daily Caller
URL Source: http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/10/c ... ing-mexicans-by-serving-tacos/
Published: Oct 10, 2015
Author: Eric Owens
Post Date: 2015-10-10 11:08:19 by Willie Green
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Views: 2576
Comments: 12
Officials at Clemson University have apologized for serving a lot of Mexican food at a couple dining halls because two students found it offensive. Clemson’s food-themed “Maximum Mexican” night, a student favorite, occurred on Wednesday night. The two complaining students used the hashtag “#CUlturallyInsensitive,” reports Campus Reform. One of the two students complained about the ongoing cafeteria fiesta by tweeting an image of cafeteria workers wearing sombreros. The caption of the tweet — which now appears to have disappeared — was: “Our culture isn’t a costume and we will not be mocked!” Administrators at the taxpayer-funded public school in South Carolina reacted with a swift and abject apology for serving Mexican food. Doug Hallenbeck, Clemson’s senior associate vice president of student affairs, explained that the choice to cook and serve food from Mexico “displayed a flattened cultural view of Mexican culture.” “In the future, University Housing & Dining welcomes the opportunity to work with Hispanic and Latino campus groups as well as community members, staff and faculty to better celebrate the food and culture of this region and better educate the Clemson community,” the letter beginning “Dear Clemson Family” said. “It is the mission of University Housing & Dining to create supportive and challenging environments that enrich and nourish lives. We failed to live out our mission yesterday,” Hallenbeck’s letter added about the Mexican food. Clemson published similar-sounding apologies on Facebook and Twitter. Some students on the Clemson campus disagreed with the students who were offended and the school’s response. “This is something that Clemson Dining has done for years without any sort of backlash. People love the cultural nights in the dining halls,” senior Austin Pendergist told Campus Reform. “What’s next? Are they going to take away all potato based food as to not offend students from Irish decent? Remove the stir fry station so Asian-American students don’t feel as if they are being misrepresented? When does it end?” Pendergist noted that the extent of “Maximum Mexican” night was “a couple balloons, sombreros, and some tacos.” He also recalled that the school’s cafeterias have a series of culturally-themed events throughout the year. America’s college campuses have seen mucho kerfuffles about tacos and other Mexican food. At Dartmouth College, America’s most hopelessly and disturbingly fragile Ivy League school, problems arose in spring 2014 because a single student, junior Daniela Hernandez, was offended by a “Phiesta” fundraiser for cardiac care sponsored by two Greek organizations. (RELATED: It’s Official: At Dartmouth, The Word ‘Fiesta’ Is Racist And White People Can’t Use It) In 2013, Northwestern University sent a campus-wide letter advising students not to celebrate Cinco de Mayo by engaging in racially-offensive activities, such as eating tacos and drinking tequila. (RELATED: Latino Student Group Says Eating Tacos Is Offensive To Mexicans) In May, a Mexican student who attends a college in Boston instructed Americans in USA Today not to celebrate by engaging in racially-offensive activities, such as shortening the word guacamole and purchasing ponchos. (RELATED: Latina Student: Shortening The Word Guacamole Is Offensive To Mexicans) Clemson is also facing quite a bit of politically-correct craziness on campus these days. Last academic year, a radical student group at Clemson demanded that administrators “prosecute defamatory speech” to fix a “pattern of social injustice.” Other demands from the group, called See the Stripes, included more public cash for minority groups and the construction of a multicultural center which minority members can use as a “safe space.” (RELATED: Radical Minority Group At Clemson Seeks SUSPENSION OF FIRST AMENDMENT) This summer, Clemson’s board of trustees for student affairs approved a list of recommendations designed to curb fun which included a ban on drinking games at all social events. (RELATED: Clemson Bans Frats, Sororities From Buying Booze, Playing Drinking Games) However, there is also real science happening at Clemson. In 2013, for example, a group of student researchers tested several ping-pong balls used in various beer pong games around campus — before the frat ban. The students found a swarm of dodgy bacteria on those balls. This vital research was part of a Clemson program called Creative Inquiry, which allows students to consider weighty questions — such as exactly how disgusting beer pong is — and answer those questions via scientific inquiry. (RELATED: Science At Clemson: Beer Pong Balls Are Crawling With Nasty Bacteria)
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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
What will they do when "Pale White" night comes around?
The most close-minded, intolerant people can be found at our institutions of higher learning. The one place you would think that everything would be open to discusion.
They should have called it taco bender night and served the tacos.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
This is just one instance of PC run amok with these fragile young people who compete primarily at how offended and threatened they can be. AoS: Faculty at the meetings noted that students’ emotional fragility has become a serious problem when it comes to grading. Some said they had grown afraid to give low grades for poor performance, because of the subsequent emotional crises they would have to deal with in their offices. Many students, they said, now view a C, or sometimes even a B, as failure, and they interpret such "failure" as the end of the world. Faculty also noted an increased tendency for students to blame them (the faculty) for low grades--they weren't explicit enough in telling the students just what the test would cover or just what would distinguish a good paper from a bad one. They described an increased tendency to see a poor grade as reason to complain rather than as reason to study more, or more effectively. Much of the discussions had to do with the amount of handholding faculty should do versus the degree to which the response should be something like, "Buck up, this is college." Does the first response simply play into and perpetuate students' neediness and unwillingness to take responsibility? Does the second response create the possibility of serious emotional breakdown, or, who knows, maybe even suicide? Read the whole thing. This guy's personal observations have been confirmed by reports coming in from all over the country about the Least Generation's "fragility," "neediness," and "lack of resilience."
I think they just gobble the hotdogs, 'burgers & fries without thinking where they came from.
Back to the traditional house negro fare.... Are you happy now? You forgot the fried chicken and watermelons...
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
A few nights ago we had tacos for dinner around here. Tonight, however - what to do? I suppose I shall toast/bake Mission brand corn tortillas into Heck - dinner will make it here in any case...
If he feels that strongly about it,he needs to take his Mexican ass to where his Mexican culture thrives,in Mexico. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Maybe they can dress everybody in white bedsheets and call it "Spook Night" so they don't offend anyone? Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Or refried beans,and call it "Light a Fart Night". Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
May I suggest watermelons and friend chicken on Martin Luther Kings' Birthday? After all,we don't want to bees scrimin-atin gainst them.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Pendergist noted that the extent of “Maximum Mexican” night was “a couple balloons, sombreros, and some tacos.”
#2. To: Willie Green (#0)
"Officials at Clemson University have apologized ..."
#3. To: Willie Green (#0)
#4. To: Willie Green (#0)
Via Hot Air, let there be no further doubt, the Millennials are the Least Generation and the Last Generation. (As a group; the fact that some of them are on the ball doesn't change the fact that most of them aren't worth dirt.) At the first meeting, we learned that emergency calls to Counseling had more than doubled over the past five years. Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life. Recent examples mentioned included a student who felt traumatized because her roommate had called her a "bitch" and two students who had sought counseling because they had seen a mouse in their off-campus apartment. The latter two also called the police, who kindly arrived and set a mousetrap for them.
#5. To: Fred Mertz (#1)
#6. To: Willie Green (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#7. To: hondo68 (#6)
#8. To: Willie Green (#0)
...Culturally Insensitive...
Yesterday at lunch someone was rooting around in my
fridge for (yes, lunch) - and found the remnants - chopped
onions, peppers, cheese, salsa, etc., etc. - and took it upon
herself to make lunchtime tacos. Which was fine.
my own homemade tortilla chips. OR the spinach-wheat, tomato-basil
wraps into wheat tortilla chips - In the taster-oven -
because my kitchen range does no longer work. (Details, details...)
#9. To: Willie Green (#0)
One of the two students complained about the ongoing cafeteria fiesta by tweeting an image of cafeteria workers wearing sombreros. The caption of the tweet — which now appears to have disappeared — was: “Our culture isn’t a costume and we will not be mocked!”
#10. To: Fred Mertz (#1)
What will they do when "Pale White" night comes around?
#11. To: no gnu taxes (#3)
They should have called it taco bender night and served the tacos.
#12. To: hondo68, Willie Green (#6)
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