Five Time DIII All-American Running Unattached Untill Her School Addresses Bias Motivated Incidents

Sounds like liberal PC censorship to me. Nothing wrong with free speech. Burning the flag is OK in America- it's a careful trade-off the SCOTUS has made between free speech and the risk of offending people. This seems like a similar situation.

was wondering when Fox News would chime in...

once again "free speech" a right no one here is questioning is brought up rather than the issue of racism/xenophobia

Good. Let the snowflake run unattached and realize how privileged she is to run for the school and not the reverse.

Does anyone else see the irony of a Latina student at an elite college crying about discrimination against her?

There is a very good chance that the only reason she's at that college is because they discriminated against others on her behalf. The only check box more valuable than Hispanic on the Common App is Native American.

Drunk drivers should be prosecuted, but c'mon, spare me the moral outrage.

Wow, think of all the track revenue the school will lose. She sure is sticking to to them.

Captain Obviously wrote:

Does anyone else see the irony of a Latina student at an elite college crying about discrimination against her?

There is a very good chance that the only reason she's at that college is because they discriminated against others on her behalf. The only check box more valuable than Hispanic on the Common App is Native American.

Drunk drivers should be prosecuted, but c'mon, spare me the moral outrage.

Dude, she's pretty darn smart. This was a real dumb comment. Really, Really dumb.

Wow, that was so ignorant man. I feel bad for you.

In seriousness, I don't really understand all the students who are lashing out at their universities over the actions of fellow students. It seems that her issue is with the students who were saying these things, not with the institution. If someone says something offensive while I'm walking around town, I don't expect city council to do something about it. Nor do I expect my university to react to a disagreement between myself and another student. We're all adults. We don't need the school to play the role of mommy and daddy.

Well she's a pretty good runner with top 15 at NCAA DIII XC and a fairly recent 17:08 5000 m. But obviously you are captain of the slow team and probably can't break 20.

Captain Obviously wrote:

Does anyone else see the irony of a Latina student at an elite college crying about discrimination against her?

There is a very good chance that the only reason she's at that college is because they discriminated against others on her behalf. The only check box more valuable than Hispanic on the Common App is Native American.

Drunk drivers should be prosecuted, but c'mon, spare me the moral outrage.

bold move wrote:

In seriousness, I don't really understand all the students who are lashing out at their universities over the actions of fellow students. It seems that her issue is with the students who were saying these things, not with the institution. If someone says something offensive while I'm walking around town, I don't expect city council to do something about it. Nor do I expect my university to react to a disagreement between myself and another student. We're all adults. We don't need the school to play the role of mommy and daddy.

Should have gone to Grinnell or Beloit. Doubt that you'd get many students yelling stuff like that out of a car.

Who bets she will come back to the team to run at nationals and the school will not do anything? Mostly because she has the "look at me" personality so I can assure you she WILL come back to the team to get her precious DIII all american award. Then she can go graduate and nobody will care because there's 10,000 women who can run a 17 min 5k.

You mad? The football jerks have a right to free speech, and their statements are protected and the college probably acted appropriately. Some schools might have taken it down, others might have tried to make a teaching moment out of it. But following students and yelling stuff from a car is getting to the realm of harassment. That said, the campus cops probably don't have comply to insistence that kids get tested for DUI and such.

sbeefyk1 wrote:

Who bets she will come back to the team to run at nationals and the school will not do anything? Mostly because she has the "look at me" personality so I can assure you she WILL come back to the team to get her precious DIII all american award. Then she can go graduate and nobody will care because there's 10,000 women who can run a 17 min 5k.

Clearly you are an upset white person who was not smart enough to get accepted into an elite institution. Discrimination is wrong and it is the institution's responsibility to enforce 0 tolerance. It is also law enforcement's responsibility to charge drunk drivers.

What gets me in all of this is how all the outrage only goes in one direction..It only gets noticed when it effects ME.. Well, let me tell you something there is a lot of injustice out there..I love the comment " Clearly you are an upset WHITE person who wasnt smart enough to get accepted into an elite institution" Really!! Here we go again fight racism with racism ..Fight female gender inequality in sports by creating Male gender inequality in Sports...Round and Round we go...

RunDR wrote:

Clearly you are an upset white person who was not smart enough to get accepted into an elite institution. Discrimination is wrong and it is the institution's responsibility to enforce 0 tolerance. It is also law enforcement's responsibility to charge drunk drivers.

Clearly you appear to be attacking the wrong messenger. All I stated was her relatively fast recent 5K time and throw a bit of a jab at the poster I quoted who was probably jealous of her 5K time. So back off.

As a matter of fact I went to a very good academic institution. I'm not all that smart but worked hard.

Finally, even if the cops didn't arrest those dudes, I were the football coach I'd make my business to find out who was behind those acts and get in their face about it.

Clearly she's a bit sour about having to pay for the wall.

So some football players acted like dickheads. What else is new. What does that have to do with track? She's letting down her teammates and coaches for nothing

I have many things to say about this. Let me begin with providing background information about the incidents at Cornell College (although I imagine that OP is familiar with them as well, as I can't think of any reason that an individual who is not affiliated with Cornell would be on a college student's twitter account).

At Cornell, there are two legal graffiti spots: a large rock by the oldest building on campus and the "kiosk", which is three metal pillars outside of the student center. On Sunday night/Monday morning, an "unaffiliated representative" (their words) wrote the worlds "build a wall/build it tall" on the kiosk. When the administration did not respond, students (including the student-founded Latino organization) repainted the kiosk to read "Wall or no wall, we stand tall/land of immigrants" at around 11 am. The Cornell administration did not respond to the words painted on the kiosk until 8 pm when they sent out an email essentially skirting around the issue, passing it off as freedom of speech and saying that the minorities on campus FELT marginalized instead of recognizing that they ARE marginalized. This is when Martinez decided to run unattached and made the Facebook post that the OP shared. On Tuesday night, members of the Latino organization were off-campus at a nearby pizza joint/gas station (in true small town Iowa fashion) when members of the football team driving in a car started verbally harassing them, repeatedly yelling "build a wall". The police were then called and the football players admitted to being drunk (remember they were driving) and said that it was all a joke. However, the football players were let off with a warning. The administration began investigating the issue further and sent out a second email claiming that events like this will not be tolerated. On Wednesday night, a "vigil for peace" was held and was attended by many faculty members. Later Wednesday night, students wrote "Trump 2016" in chalk across campus and the Latino organization responded by changing most/all messages to "Love trumps hate 2016" or other similar messages. This has not be addressed by the administration as of the time of this post.

Sanjuanita Martinez is a strong, intelligent, talented, passionate individual who happens to be Latina. She earned her place at Cornell and has excelled both in academics and on the track. Anyone who knows Sam knows that she stands up for what she believes in and doesn't back down. She genuinely believes in this issue. She wouldn't be putting her chance of getting another All-American award (or a potential win) in jeopardy if she didn't. This is about more than the racially-charged messages. This is about the safety of minorities in this country. This is about the small microaggressions that occur every day in every place (yes, even at Grinnell and Beloit). This is about the apathy and institutional racism that the Cornell administration initially displayed towards the issues that affected and continues to affect so many of its students. This is about making Cornell and our nation as a whole a better place.

Should have gone to Grinnell or Beloit. Doubt that you'd get many students yelling stuff like that out of a car.[/quote]

Yeah in Beloit they would just kidnap you or hold you at gunpoint...

How is screaming "build a wall" at Latin-American women racist? I don't see anything that would suggest racial animosity playing a factor here; it's just a wall. Are ceilings and floors racist too? These football players were just voicing their support for an important, constitutionally responsible plan to build a gigantic, mindbogglingly expensive barrier over mountains and desert in order to protect the rule of law in America. I highly doubt they have any issue with Hispanics who are here legally.

It's like screaming "ban muslims" to an Arab-American. Just because they are Arab doesn't necessarily mean they are Muslim, so there is really nothing to get upset about. Why do these sensitive minorities always assume they are being "targeted" instead of constructively engaged in democratic conversation?