🏈 BAMA Student's Racist Rant and the Reply From BAMA Football

[planomateo]

@Birdman37 this is the document you should be referencing, the Code of Student Conduct

Basically they have jurisdiction everywhere...

Jurisdiction of the University
Generally, University jurisdiction and discipline shall be limited to conduct that occurs on University premises or conduct that adversely affects or is detrimental to the University community and/or the pursuit of its objectives, which can occur anywhere. A student will be subject to the Code of Student Conduct for any action that violates this Code that occurs on University premises, relates to a University program, or, in the University’s sole discretion, affects or is detrimental to the University community and/or the pursuit of University objectives.

 

[BamaFan334]

@Birdman37 this is the document you should be referencing, the Code of Student Conduct

Basically they have jurisdiction everywhere...

With all due respect to this, how is a student convicted of DUI not kicked out of school for potentially putting innocent lives in danger? Are they not representing the university by being students and that coming out in the news if it creates a headline? What about all of these athletes that get busted for drugs, domestic issues, and anything else they make the news for as Alabama or any other school athletes? I find it funny they are simply suspended for however many games, yet something as simple at hateful words gets you kicked out of school and shunned. Athletes are given a pass, while a normal student's life is ruined.

I'm not agreeing with what she did here, but it sounds like a lot of people are using her as a punching bag for their own political and societal views, while seemingly giving others passes based on their personal views of the laws and rules broken. I mean shit, use DJ Pettway as an example, freaking beat up a kid with other guys and stole his belongings. He left, but was allowed to come back. Sure, he expressed his apologies and came back as an exemplary student-athlete, but why was he given a pass when he targeted another innocent student and physically hurt him, when all this chick did was speak hate, but took no action? Look at all the negative attention Hand got for his DUI and what it brought on Alabama, and everyone dogging Saban for his punishment. How is that not an image hit to others out there not looking through Crimson and White colored glasses?

I think what I'm getting at here is that the bias in society is uneven and these issues will never stop coming up because some are allowed to get away with bad things, and some aren't. We've all said something mean, bullied someone, vilified a group of people, been in fist fights and caused physical harm, we've all done something bad to someone else because we didn't like what they said, did, or who they are. I just find it funny that some ditsy school girl has everyone riled up as if she just carried out a hate crime and set back race relations a hundred years by a dumbass rant on freaking Instagram, freaking Instagram. Got news for everyone on both sides, all colors of people say stuff like this on a daily basis on social media, period. What she did was wrong, absolutely stupid, and I cannot see where she was planning on capitalizing from it, but I do think some of the comments on here are two face and not taking into consideration how each and every one of us at some point has vilified another person for doing something not normal to our culture and the way we were raised.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Speaking as someone who lives in the higher ed world and is a bit jaded about all of it ..

A lot of times, it has to do with the history of the university and its reputation. For example, at one school I worked at, punishments for alcohol were far more severe than the 'norm' at other schools because we'd had a public death from drinking in the 1980s.

Alabama has a checkered past in regards to racism, so for the university to come out with guns blazing when a student pulls some dumb shit like this, well, that's not surprising in the least.

 

[TUSKtimes]

This is a social issue and as social ills go it's a mixed bag as far as remedies or even general interest is concerned. The big disadvantage hate speech has going for it these days is that it's finally reached the standard of not being accepted as politically correct. Not all social issues ever come close to such lofty heights, but in a public environment, in a very public format, if you play you pay. Students or really anyone with a smartphone better realize, times a changing. One down, too many to count to go.

 

[planomateo]

@BamaFan334 agree, where does the University draw the line? Where do companies draw the line?

Seems like a bit of a reach, but like I said before, I don't think she was expelled by the University as it was originally reported.

 

[PhillyGirl]

@BamaFan334 agree, where does the University draw the line? Where do companies draw the line?

Seems like a bit of a reach, but like I said before, I don't think she was expelled by the University as it was originally reported.

She was. Local Philly news is reporting it as well (quoting her), as she is from the burbs in South Jersey. She's also apologized, apparently.

With more thought .. I don't think expelling was the correct response. Hell, universities allow rapists to hang around a campus. My friend was raped in college and her rapist was allowed to stay in the same dorm as her, even after he admitted to it .. There is simply no consistency or backbone when unis deal out punishments.

What she needs is intensive community service and sitting down and talking to the people she trashed in her videos. Expulsion isn't going to change her mind.

 

[Destiny's Child]

We have given this girl, her diatribe and this thread more air time then it deserves.

She's got issues, she was expelled and the story is over. Her 15 minutes need be over

 

[BamaFan334]

She was. Local Philly news is reporting it as well (quoting her), as she is from the burbs in South Jersey. She's also apologized, apparently.

With more thought .. I don't think expelling was the correct response. Hell, universities allow rapists to hang around a campus. My friend was raped in college and her rapist was allowed to stay in the same dorm as her, even after he admitted to it .. There is simply no consistency or backbone when unis deal out punishments.

What she needs is intensive community service and sitting down and talking to the people she trashed in her videos. Expulsion isn't going to change her mind.

I could not agree more with you here. Make them see the error of their ways. There are some down trodden areas directly around campus she could visit and spent some outreach time with to gain some perspective on the other side of the tracks. It makes me sick to my stomach hearing stories like your friend's. These are the ones that need to have everyone outraged. Good post, and I agree with everything you said.