Why not? Releasing lists of demands is all the rage on campus these days.

The College Fix reports.

Latino students at Duke refuse to recruit more Latinos until its laundry list of demands is met

It may sound odd to sabotage your group’s political strength in order to get more political strength, but that’s what Duke University’s undergraduate Latino organization is doing.

Mi Gente (“My People”) is refusing to help plan Latino Student Recruitment Weekend with the Office of Admissions until peace arrives in the Middle East (or at least they get nicer digs), The Chronicle reports:

Mi Gente will channel its energy into demanding that its “voice be heard” and its “community be represented” on campus. The letter also called for the creation of a Latino/a cultural center, more Latino/a faculty members, a larger office space for Mi Gente and Latino/a students and the formation of a Latino studies department, including a major, minor and tenured faculty.

Latino students are mad that they have so few faculty members who look like them while black faculty have tripled over the past 20 years. They’ve been waiting 11 years for Duke to accede to their demands for their own segregation cultural center and more Latino faculty.


The group published a letter in the Chronicle laying out their grievances – note that “Latinx” is intended as a gender-neutral ethnic term but is pronounced like a laxative (“Lateen-X”):

Our requests are simple yet imperative: we demand a cultural center, which will assume full responsibility of Latino Student Recruitment Weekend programming, more Latinx faculty members in various departments and a public apology for the racism exhibited within the Department of Education and towards Dr. Jason Mendez [see below]. We are continuously disappointed with Duke and its dismissal of the needs of students of color, particularly those of the Latinx community. …


 
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