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TexasTowelie

(116,804 posts) Mon Nov 29, 2021, 09:33 PM Nov 2021

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'Profanity, jeering': UNH president seeks apology from students protesting sex assault

DURHAM — The student-run Sexual Violence Action Committee is missing one important player: the school president.

UNH President James W. Dean Jr. wants students in the group, formed in response to sex assault allegations on campus, to apologize for the way they treated him and other administrators at a protest last month. And he won't meet with them until they apologize, according to two school officials.

President Dean attended a protest outside his on-campus home Oct. 25, held amid mounting frustration among students who felt UNH wasn't doing enough in response to alleged sexual violence.

UNH spokesperson Erika Mantz said students responded to the presence of the president and administrators with "disrespectful behavior."

Read more: https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/2021/11/27/unh-president-dean-seeks-apology-students-fighting-sex-assault/8751739002/

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'Profanity, jeering': UNH president seeks apology from students protesting sex assault (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2021 OP

The adults need to get over it and suck it up. LuvLoogie Nov 2021 #1

The president makes a generous six-figure salary TexasTowelie Nov 2021 #2

Seriously. Total snowflake move. LuvLoogie Nov 2021 #4

Can't say for sure, but the Dean sounds like a guy who never knew anything about... TreasonousBastard Nov 2021 #3

LuvLoogie

(7,545 posts)

1. The adults need to get over it and suck it up.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Nov 29, 2021, 09:49 PM

Nov 2021

If they are interested in dialogue, they'll get over it.

TexasTowelie

(116,804 posts)

2. The president makes a generous six-figure salary

Reply to LuvLoogie (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 29, 2021, 09:56 PM

Nov 2021

yet he can't take the heat from a group of students. He shouldn't be in a position of power.

LuvLoogie

(7,545 posts)

4. Seriously. Total snowflake move.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 30, 2021, 12:18 AM

Nov 2021

Show up. Don't make conditions.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

3. Can't say for sure, but the Dean sounds like a guy who never knew anything about...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Nov 29, 2021, 10:19 PM

Nov 2021

that real life that doesn't exist outside of those hallowed halls.

It's not 1899 any more, and stories about multiple attacks have to be dealt with.

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