BIAS AT OHIO STATE!

[BigWoof31]

Since I am a card carrying, gun toting, racist right winger - I will browse the Daily Caller from time to time.
Today they detailed a campus organization called the "Bias Assessment and Response Team" (BART). The group is made up of a couple dozen University Employees.

As the article mentions - things haven't been too outrageous:

So, what are the intolerable, criminal acts to which the Bias Assessment and Response Team has responded since 2008? Have there been lynchings? Are Nazis and Stalinists overrunning Ohio Stadium?


Not exactly. However, someone did mistake a pi?ata string for a noose back in 2010. BART was all over that one. And BART is always there when tender reeds at OSU are pained by insults, especially if those insults come in the form of heartless bathroom graffiti.

The article continues by detailing the 10 most outrageously outrageous acts of Bias on Campus. My personal favorite?

3. Through an anonymous online assessment, a student claimed the use of American Indian Costumes (November 26, 2008)
Could it have been on Halloween a few weeks before? Just thinking out loud here?

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/26/t...at-we-swear-we-did-not-make-up/#ixzz2OfwaHyCb

 

[TooTall]

What in the fuck was that? Were those just 10 question, and short answer responses that some numbskull though was funny (not even remotely close) so he posted it?

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Nowhere does it say that these incidents were handed over to judicial affairs nor any repercussions dealt. The article simply picks out the 10 most ridiculous complaints (and yes, they were ridiculous, but that was the whole point of this polemic) that were made and documented.

So, by all means, let's do away with the whole office. That way when a legitimate instance of discrimination or racial harassment occurs (as it frequently does at campuses all over the country), Ohio State can get dragged through a media circus as well as have to pay out 5 or 6 figures in a civil action.

 

[Muck]

This thread needs more over reacting.

 

[IronBuckI]

This thread needs more over reacting.

YOU SHOULD'VE POSTED USING CAPITAL LETTERS!!

 

[HorseshoeFetish]

This thread needs more over reacting.

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Don't get me wrong, tOSU is a talented team with a better seed...however, people do realize that for majority of the year UA was ranked higher than tOSU and has better metrics and record OOC...right?

 

[buckeyebri]

And we wonder why college cost are increasing exponentially....cue VG

 

[buckeyegrad]

People, please do some research or at least try to understand how a university operates before spouting off about who needs to be fired or eliminated.

BART is a committee/team. It is not the primary work responsibility of any of the people who serve on it. This is merely one responsibility, a mere bullet-point on a multiple-page job description, of their overall work. This is very common for how universities work.

Having been a past employee of TOSU as an academic advisor (granted, it was 10 years ago), I personally know three of the people on the committee. And their work on this team is not how they are identified are known on campus.
http://www.studentaffairs.osu.edu/bias/who-we-are.asp

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Seriously, why does the committee even need to exist?
Why does anything need to get reported, documented or investigated?
Waste of time and reources!​

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Why have redundancies. Is this vital to national university defense that nobodies feelings be hurt and like the torpedoes damn the costs? Or is it just a way of ensuring those who can't do still get paid and don't even have to teach?

Anyone know the overhead expense, variable and fixed labor costs? Number of administrative positions per undergrad?

Practice what you teach and I have no issues with the administration. Nothing is efficient in the university model and stuff like this group of busy bodies need more value added tasks assigned to them apparently to justify the very likely bloated budget.

You're right. We need to run American higher education more like American business. That's why the rest of the world has such disdain for our universities but still considers our industries as the gold standard for the world.

 

[BIATCHabutuka]

Don't disagree there at all honestly but you need to self scout and always improve. Redundancies should be eliminated in any organization unless it is of a critical nature. BART is redundant.

Plenty of opportunities to improve and maintain that edge, maybe even sharpen it some.

 

[BIATCHabutuka]

Our industries are certainly the gold standard worldwide though, much like our universities.

Can never lose that competitive edge though without giving up those titles.

I would challenge you to name an industry our nation does not dominate though (profitable industry not make believe industry like solar).

 

[BayBuck]

People, please do some research or at least try to understand how a university operates before spouting off about who needs to be fired or eliminated.

BART is a committee/team. It is not the primary work responsibility of any of the people who serve on it. This is merely one responsibility, a mere bullet-point on a multiple-page job description, of their overall work. This is very common for how universities work.

Having been a past employee of TOSU as an academic advisor (granted, it was 10 years ago), I personally know three of the people on the committee. And their work on this team is not how they are identified are known on campus.
http://www.studentaffairs.osu.edu/bias/who-we-are.asp

One of them is Paul Denton, OSU Chief of Police. Not exactly a "desk jockey" as the original article lumps them, and as ex officio probably not very involved in the day-to-day work of BART.

In fact it sounds like there really is no day-to-day work for BART, since their charge only requires meetings when significant hate-based incidents are reported, plus quarterly and annually for ongoing review. I have been involved with several OSU committees with similar time commitments, without taking away from my performance in my primary role here.

 

[AKAK]

This thread needs more over reacting.

Well, to be fair, I thought the title was "BASS AT OHIO STATE!"

Which, admittedly did get me fired up. Not as much as walleye would have, but, you know, what does?

Having reread it, not so worked up anymore.

 

[BigWoof31]

It should be noted that the post was originally designed to poke fun at the outrageous nature of the complaints, not the value (or cost) of such a committee.