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“Students in this moment should have complete access to alternative modes of learning while we process what’s happening. Basically, no student especially black students and students of color should be failing a class this semester. A ‘C’ should be the lowest grade students can receive this semester. Professors should be required to work with students, who would otherwise be at risk of failing, to create alternate means of accessing knowledge.”
The petition has garnered more than 1,300 signatures, according to The Oberlin Review.
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Student groups believe that since Oberlin has always been progressive on race issues — the college graduated its first Black student 19 years before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued — that they should be extra sensitive to the plight of students of color at this time.
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“It has come to the attention of students that students of color, particularly Black students, who have suffered significant trauma over the past few weeks due to the Grand Jury decisions are not at all in a place to take their finals right now. I am not among these students, and as a white, middle-class person, I have to privilege [sic] of being able to step away from these events and put enough energy into schoolwork and finals to assure that I will pass my classes,” Della Kurzer-Zlotnick, an Oberlin student, wrote to her professor.
http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/12/16/oberlin-college-students-ask-professors-exempt-students-color-exams/#f25QRBhAiA8Titco.99
Oberlin College students ask professors to exempt ‘students of color’ from exams
By Ashley Dobson
December 16, 2014
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