1. September 17, 2007

Dear Coleman Residents, 

Over the past few weekends, Coleman Hall has had a significant amount of damage to the building.  Facilities are diligently working to keep the building clean, but due to chronic vandalism we are forced to take further action.  Over the past few weeks there has been broken doors, broken cabinets, vomit on the floor, numerous purposely clogged toilets, and many other incidents of vandalism.  This behavior is not acceptable and needs to stop immediately.  In order to prevent any more damage to the building we will be authorizing Public Safety to do random walkthroughs of the building during peek times on nights and weekends.  This is not our usual approach to patrolling the building, but due to a general lack of respect for the space that you live, we felt it necessary to add supplemental support.  If the vandalism stops and improvements are made, we will reconsider the decision.  We also want to note that the floors responsible for this vandalism will be charged for the broken items and cleaning unless someone is found responsible.  We encourage all of you to take an active role in making Coleman Hall a great place to live.  Take pride in your building and keep it in good order not only for yourselves but future classes as well.  We work very hard to make Babson a great place to live and ask that you respect that by not vandalizing the residence halls.  If you have any further information on these incidents feel free to see your RA or email us with any concerns, questions, or information.  Thank you very much

2. Monday, September 24th

Hey guys,

As most of you are probably aware, we’ve been having some serious issues in Coleman regarding vandalism and just flat out disrespect for the building.

There is trash in the hallways on the weekends and it doesn’t seem to be because of lack of trash cans.

The bathrooms are continually being vandalized. Toilets are being clogged purposefully with beer cans and the showers are being broken.

You are being charged for these damages and will receive a bill at the end of the year. If you’re causing the damages, stop. It’s not fair to those that have to live here. If you see someone doing something that you’ll probably get charged for, stop them. If you are uncomfortable confronting them, let me know and I’ll figure it out.

In regards to food, we have a common kitchen that you are free to use. If you choose to use it, clean up after yourself.

Don’t throw away food in the sink and leave it there, it’s pretty gross and clogs the sinks.

There have been incidents where food and trash have been disposed of in the hallway. That’s disgusting. Walk 3 feet to the nearest trash can. We’re starting to get roaches because of this problem.

The Facilities workers will not pick up your trash barrels in the hallway. If you leave them in the hallway, they will take them and you will get charged for losing your trash barrel.

Check out the pictures I’ve attached and please just treat the building with respect, it’s your home this year. Don’t do anything here that you wouldn’t do in your own house.

Let me know if you have questions or suggestions,
[RA's Name Removed]

 (These 3 are dated 9/10/07)

(The first from the 23rd and the second from the 24th)

My Response

excuse me, but this is a little ridiculous. I personally feel its outrageous that a different hall in coleman gets trashed almost every weeked, and now every resident is paying for it? I sincerely discourage the use of threats of damage fines and would much rather see the RA go around and write up people for things outside their door or infractions during party hours.

The bathrooms though? Why would residents trash the place they need to go to be clean? It really sucks to walk in to a messy problem where it looks like a lot of people thrashed some place, but doesn’t it seem that one coleman resident throwing a party would be a much more logical assumption when trying to accuse someone? I mean, why would we residents want to destroy our own bathing facilities? Honestly, Kevin and Jess, and all the other RA’s, I feel like in times like this you are now warranted to do the check ups on hallways that you are already responsible for. Why? Not to bust the parties up, not to be a babo informant, but to be simply the one who holds residents accountable for their lifestyles here.

If this were a community living dorm, like O-tower last year (which was basically a war zone every weekend), I’d be ok with splitting the damages with my fellow tower-mates. But this is not a tower. I moved out of the that tower so I wouldn’t have to deal with this again. And now, even with Babo and RA’s supposedly making rounds, they haven’t caught anyone responsible for this? I find that very very very hard to believe. And finally, looking at the list of people that received this email, I wonder why the hell are we getting it. Our wing hasn’t even been that bad except for weekends when they forget to grab the extra 30 gal barrels they leave us. I mean, for christs sake, our hall has even been recycling!

In the end, get off our asses and get off of yours and do a better job policing the dirty areas like you said you would. Please, and thank you.

Bryan “Reverend Esby” Steward

PS:  That ain’t no cockroach.  I don’t know about you readers out there, but I personally don’t know many cockroaches that scurry about in broad daylight, let alone pose for flash photography…

Abso-fucking-lutely NOT!

Instead it was more of shock and horror for my fellow final semester senior (December Grads), as when he checked his housing arrangements for his Putney single, he immediately noticed that Babson had paired him up with a roommate! He called me up quite distressed at the thought of spending the last semester of college with a roommate he’s never met and probably won’t get along with. Immediately thinking he may have screwed up, we tried to figure out if there was any way that he meant to click on a different one. After a few hours of pouring over how my friend must have selected a double on accident, we realized that he indeed did select a single based off of what the online floor plan map of putney third floor displays.

So my buddy emails housing and tells them that the screw up is definitely on them and theres no way they are going to put two kids in a single and that there is no way he is going to have a roommate his last semester here.

OCL’s Housing email address responds: We are sorry but we cannot help you with this. Please contact your area director.

Thats it. Thats the end of their email. Now excuse me, and pardon my french, BUT THOSE FUCKING MORONS LOOK LIKE THEY’RE STILL USELESS! I think OCL should be reinterpreted by the students to mean, Off Campus for LIFE. I MEAN THEY DIDN’T EVEN TELL HIM WHO IS HIS NEW AREA DIRECTOR!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK?!

I 100% know that improving student service is a strong concern for some of Babson’s administrators. And I know one of the reasons OCL was restaffed was to hopefully prevent idiots from making mistakes like this and also so if things like this did happen, they’d be quickly caught and repaired before they became an issue.

Dean Hanno, we’ll be meeting soon.

Bryan “Reverend Esby” Steward

PS: I’m really curious how many of these OCL mistakes happen that I don’t hear about. Want your story posted? IM me on AIM, Reverend Esby, and tell me how it is.

First and foremost of the crapcampus priorities, we now are arranging regular weekly meetings with the office for undergraduate deans! Finally someone is willing to bring us in to the reformative process that babson needs! Although, our consulting comments/critiques are still being offered for free, we are excited to embrace our new friends in Babson’s faculty.

PREPARING FOR WAR: Babson’s Blue Collar War

To remind our old readers, and for those who don’t yet know, I’m a blue collar boy in my roots. Both parents, grandparents and other immediate relatives, are blue collars. I’m also the son, of a Local Union VP for the International Association of Fire Fighters. The union blood and rough working hands run deep and strong with unbreakable pride within this young man. And it is for that reason, that I announce a declaration of war on the managers in charge of facilities and grounds. Shelley Kaplan, Stephen Tolley, and Nick Butera because I am going to name names. Over the weekend, I snapped pictures on my phone, of union work being given away from a deeply and definitely excessively cut staff of Union employees here at Babson. The grounds crew here, has been cut to five people. The facilities staff has suffered even more losses in the past year, after receiving a devastating layoff of 26 employees last summer. What is the worst, is that these guys are doing the best they can and its still not up to management’s expectations. They’ve repeatedly been asked to work harder and harder with no additional assistance. All the while, these guys are saying, “hey, we know this is fucked up, but what do you expect when you are the ones telling us to pull weeds for a week from a flower bed behind a dumpster!?” HEY BUTERA, ITS CALLED HERBICIDE, AKA ROUNDUP! Rather than hire another few employees to assist and adequately staff for the tasks at hand, babson will pay an extra 50 percent more than OT pay, just to have an outsourced company take care of it.What I’ve seen on campus this summer, especially within this past week, is an all time low for the facilities and grounds management. It truly is depressing to think that a school that prides itself so highly in business, lets people run an entire division of the campus’ appearance so poorly. And I gotta tell you guys, though the strike was just a rumor, these blue collar boys are pretty pissed off and more importantly than that, they really are counting on some support from the students and more importantly the parents of students. They like us and they want to keep working with us, but the management is grinding them into the dirt and they simply cannot complete the tasks requested with the staff provided. So when your bathroom hasn’t been cleaned for a week, you run out of toilet paper, or you live in Map Hill and no one shows up to clean the bathroom for a week, remember its not their fault for not getting there in time, its the management that has cut away some of the muscle and overburdened an understaffed department.Now these aren’t even the opening shots, this is just the declaration. But believe, this one is definitely going to be a shooting war. So stay tuned.

We owe special thanks to Dean Hanno for taking an initiative to improve all aspects of student service here at Babson, everything from the gym to the dreaded office of campus life.

Raise your expectations! OCL has been restaffed!! We here at crapcampus, I feel, should consider this a great victory as the purpose of renaming our front page as OCLruinedmycampuslife.com has been fulfilled. Now, I’ve been asked if since such staffing changes have been made, would we consider retiring our OCL attack tag?

I was honestly considering having the web address restored to just crapcampus but the keyword there is “was”.

I’ve currently started a new job in the area that I greatly enjoy and greatly require housing for. The problem is, my housing arrangements end earlier than when Babson’s move in date begins. So I sent an email to my new “Area” director, Dennings Aaris, requesting an early move in after explaining my situation. I included in the email my adress to the concerns for those who would be undergoing orientation in the week before move in, and apparently, my early arrival causes too much of an inconvenience. The 27th was the best they could do. No longer wishing to burden my friends with my boarding, I decided that I should ask OCL if maybe I could move in too, since the sports teams and RA’s and majority of Babson’s dorms are here and ready to be moved in (I’ve walked around and checked and just about everything but Putney is as ready as its going to be). So just about an hour ago, I headed into the office, with hopes high, and for once, with positive expectations. Sadly, my friends, I have only disappointment to report.I arrived in the office, and while waiting to speak to someone like Lisa Virga, I overheard the following the following phone conversation being had between a parent and a student assistant in the office. It apparently was a parent asking about the move in date for their son who was on the soccer team. It quickly caught my attention as soon as I heard the student verifying the parent’s question. The question was can my son still move in early? The student asked, “your son is on the soccer team? No, he quit? Ok let me check with someone in the office….(she goes back into office and comes back to say)…. Yup, I just checked and his move in date is still set for the 18th. You’re all set.” Now here’s a kid who has no need to come to campus earlier other than just the convenience that his parents enjoy of not having to change their orginal travel plans.Things get worse.When I finally start talking to the student assistant, she informs me that the only way I’m gonna get in touch with Virga is through email, she’s too busy running around. And thats when Rita stepped in. At first, I appreciated her stepping to the plate. But as soon as she started talking downward to me, and reminding me of the “old guard’s” policies of requiring an on campus activity to qualify for early move in, I wanted to burst out laughing. My hope for a better OCL was shocked into near hysteria. This gal, got so nasty in her snippityness, and her mightiness of position (excuse while I laugh Rita, you barely have your own desk), I couldn’t help but lash back and try and suggest a departure from their old ways and to inform them that I expected a much higher concern and willingness for student service. If they would have said, well get a letter from your employer and we’ll take it into consideration, I’d have been back before they closed, just so I could have one less thing to worry about. Instead, here I sit, reporting from the library, with no place to live.

I really wish that for this part of this entry, I had a more positive and uplifting finish that would really be a great example of real improvement in the OCL staff. But truly, I will remain a skeptic warily watching, listening, and testing the ranks of OCL. I encourage all of you, to do the same, and to remain cautious of any potential activity with OCL.

TO THE STAFF OF OCL: you’ve been warned. We are expecting major improvements, specifically in your communications with students and level of service offered to students. I won’t go as far as to start saying that you all are already as incompetent, incapable, and infuriating as the last people who held your positions, but I suggest you make damn sure you distance yourselves from their way of thinking as much as possible or you surely will not be here for long. And believe me, I would love to hear of someone in OCL who inspirs me to say, “Wow, I never want them to lose that job. They’re where they need to be, helping students.”As far as me getting our Crapmaster (congrats again on joining the alumni community), to rid them of the OCLruinedmycampuslife curse, I’ll make you a deal. You improve student services, and make sure I hear nothing but positives from the trenches, all the way till mid terms, I’ll get it taken down.If I hear rave reviews all the way through finals, and I see collaboration with SGA and other Student Organizations and some strong attempts at some good events, I’ll throw a luncheon for the whole office, right a letter of thanks and apology, and the food will be the finest Italian Roast Beef imported and catered from Chicago, Illinois. I’d much rather be working to assist you people and help improve what is wrong with your office rather than be sitting here now. I don’t do this for personal pleasure, believe it or not.

That will be all for now. Remember, you can talk to me in real time! Message Reverend Esby on AIM and I’ll get back to you asap.

Signing out,
Bryan “Reverend Esby” Steward

VP of Finance

This one is really a toss up but I put my money on Eric Shahinian.  Why?  The guy is really the least tool-like looking of the two guys and as for Sabrina, sorry, not that I know you either, but I really just don’t see anything worth supporting.  Its just politics.

Eric wants a budget expansion.  I’m all about that.

VP of Commerce

Whoever this is needs to do whatever the fuck it takes to get a fuckin 24 mini mart style store to be student run and also allowed to cell some fuckin ciggarettes too.  IT WOULD BE A FUCKING DIAMOND MINE in terms of revenue generation.  For fucks sake.  My fucking reccomendation goes to Erin Connery.  Though he lived down the hall and he was a messy fucker, he didn’t bitch about me being a smoker.  Props broseph.

Now somebody, I don’t care who, get me my fuckin minimart, BEFORE 2008.  I kinda do want to see how much ole’ Barefoot will swing with now.  Not that I would test the guy or anything…

VP of Communications

No freshmen, go with Mikaela.  She’s also accessible from within my CrapCampus Network so she is definitely someone we could communicate with.

VP of Campus Activities (things are starting to sound important…)

Jesse Morris.  Thats it.  He says it for himself and I likes the way he says it.  “I plan to take large strides in the social atmosphere of this campus, with diverse and plentiful attendances to all of our events and activities. I want to see a change happen on this campus. I want to see the pulse of life relax.”  This is also someone who has been much more socially visible at partys and other functions.  Not that I know him, but I’ve definitely seen him around a lot more than his competitor Robin.

Go with Jesse, he’ll at least acknowledge Babson needs to change.

Executive VP

If everyone knew Caroline Gaulin as well as us here at O-Tower and my male and female friends at Babson Rugby, then there wouldn’t even be a competition.  This girl definitely wants to actively work towards the improvement of this campus.  I personally plan on using her as one of the strongest campus voices to be heard.  Caroline’s voice for the student body and campus life is second to only one.

That one person more reachable, sympathetic, and more capable would of course be my vote for president.  So make sure you vote Caroline to give him the powerful staff he needs, because I think it could be a landslide for the top seat of power.

THE PRESIDENT

NO BULLSHITTING AROUND HERE.  I WILL PULL NO PUNCHES ON CALLING PEOPLE OUT!

one by one, I’m running these bitches down like a fuckin mack truck.

First Victim – Luilly Andrade

You don’t party here man.  Do you even live here?  I’ve hardly seen you up until you started putting up campaign signs.  YOU’RE NOT IN THE PUBLIC EYE ENOUGH.  I don’t know you, so I don’t care.  You’re online ballot statement is so weak!  Honestly, who here gives a fuck about the DUCK TOURS?!  Nice try son, but I can’t even say your name much less bump into you to see what you’re really like.  Honestly, by looking at you in the picture you submitted and the bits I’ve seen you around campus, you may be too BISO to take this spot.  Let someone older than you take this, they probably have a better understanding at what to do.

NEXXXXXXXXTTT Victim  – Betty Chen

You have all those plans… for a year?  Get focused because we will soon realize how useless your so called administrative ties are.  I’d like to hear from your victims while you were an RA because I know you think that this social scene is already outta hand.  And furthermore, nowhere do you address the issues of community here.  The least you say is that you’ll provide an online discussion board.  Let me tell you something, neither faculty or students use these other than for a mandatory class tool.  We have enough trouble getting people here where they are actually allowed to speak freely through anonymity!

I sincerely hope that no one even votes for her.  Yeah she’s an overachiever, but she don’t know shit for whats important to governing this student body.

Hit the brakes now, we have a winner.
DAVE YARUS FOR PRESIDENT!

Dave, I’m sorry I haven’t gotten that write up for college party, but I might actually start it after I finish this.  Anyways, obviously dave and crapcampus are in close communication with dave as he is one of the only people in my time here in Babson that has done such a fantastic job at actually making the social life just a tick better.  Even if its just with his presence at your party with a camera, Dave knows how to throw shit down.

I assure you all.  You can trust that Dave can do what he says, and he will definitely make an impact on the social atmosphere and fun factor, especially with the new incoming president.  Dave is charismatic and also one persuasive ass son of a bitch.  He’s also well experienced in the issues that matter to us.  So vote Dave Yarus.  PLEEEEASSSSEEEE!

Now to be nice I’ll say good luck to you all and don’t get hurt if you don’t win.  And if you get hurt by what I’ve said here, then come here and I’ll give you a hug and let you cry on my shoulder but in all honesty, grow up.  Its only politics. To my fellow writers, post your support or suggestions in the comments.

Looking forward to Marathon Monday,
Reverend Esby

The original definition of SODA party is a party held in the last 6-7 weeks of school held by seniors, for seniors.

The acronym stands for Seniors Out Drinking Again.

Now with that said let me get to my point.

If you are a senior, and you are hosting a S.O.D.A. please honor a babson tradition and keep out the youngsters.  We all have friends who are juniors and sophmores but after 4 years of partying here, you have to know that these suites fill up quick so keep the place open and refreshments reserved for those who which it is intended for, legally aged hard working and well deserving seniors.

If you’re not a senior just remember, when your time comes to host your own S.O.D.A. you’ll want just your senior friends around you, not a bunch of randomn ass underclassmen whom you’ve never seen.

Underclassmen should only be allowed if they are accompanied guests of at least 1 senior for maybe 2 underclassmen (be your own judge).

If you know whose soda it is, ask before bringing over twenty randomn sophmores and juniors

If you’re gonna invite the whole sports team that you’re affiliated with, then don’t host a S.O.D.A., tell someone else to do it so seniors have their own haven for celebration through libation.

The single most important thing about this post and these tips, is that someone out there in the senior class thinks more about what I’ve written and when they hold their own SODA, they come up with their own set of rules and ways of doing things.  I’m not saying we should harass and shun all underclassmen, but so far, there have been wayyyyyy toooo fuckin many little shits getting stupid fucked up at those parties and getting some busted up early or just running out of drinks 10 minutes after pub gets out.  I know a lot of people are mad disappointed with the way that events have been handled thus far.  I know from what I’ve seen so far, that I wouldn’t even bother going any more.

So seniors, the ball is in your court.  Is it Seniors Out Drinking Again or SOphmores Drinking All?

Its 4:20 pm, I’m in class, it’s almost time for wednesday night South Park…
Cheers, Reverend Esby.

People, my time here is limited.  I am not the creator of this site, but all the recent activity compells me to help direct what happens here. I have this semester plus one more left to try and make something happen here.  There is no chance to do anything whilst under an alias name and no public recognition of my affiliation.  Additionally, I am also at a juncture in my life where I have to start considering my professional career.  I cannot do all of this on my own and I need the support of our readers, students, faculty, and fellow staff members of the site, in order to actually accomplish anything. So here I am, again at your service.  My fellow authors are encouraged to join me so we may now reach out to our community.  Today was the second time I’ve introduced myself to a class and publicly announced my affiliation.

My biggest reasoning for doing this comes from the comments by “a fellow community member.”  Good Sir or Madaam, I feel as if you speak from a very professional and practical standpoint and strongly appreciate your suggestions and support.  I look forward to further dialogue and discussion with you.  There are many others on this site though that I would also like to thank.  There has been so much positive and constructive discussion here that I feel now is the time to grab the wheel of this beast and steer us towards some victories.  I am proud of what I’ve been seeing here, especially as of late, and feel that now is the time for us to take up arms and truly campaign on this campus.

One of my first activities on a list of concerns would be to pursue first the facts of what is happening with Barefoot’s decision to switch the school over to wednesdays off and friday classes.  From what I’ve gathered from faculty, within two years, you can kiss your 3 day weekends goodbye.  I oppose this action on the grounds that if you want to change the schedule at all, why don’t you make classes available at more times of the day, early or late, and also make courses available anyday of the week (at least 6 days a week) and allow people to structure their lives as they wish.  The best part of my suggestion is that it would make so many more classrooms available, we would actually be able to bring back the 24 hour lab!  How bout it?  More evening classes and maybe even friday saturday classes?  I think the EPS faculty would teach on saturdays and I guarantee that would make Babson’s real world, active, entrepreneurial professors happy as their mid week schedule is almost always swamped!

Those are just a few ideas.  But when you see me, come talk to me with your thoughts, opinions and ideas.  And please, if you can give any time during your week, I could use your help.

Thank you ladies and gentlemen.

Your friend,
    Bryan “Reverend Esby” Steward

 

AIM: Reverend Esby

I just met with a faculty member of Babson’s teaching staff.  He knows my identity due to a facebook group.  We talked.  Brace yourself.  A huge surge of power for the student body is about to hit you.
 
Ladies and Gentlemen, they’re reading.  The faculty and administration are trying to listen to what we are saying.
 
SO START SUBMITTING WHAT IT IS HERE AT BABSON THAT AILS YOU!  Tell me what issues you think are fucked up, need to be addressed, or that you have suggestions or solutions for.  ANYTHING!  As long as its something that seriously needs to be changed, we the crapcampus staff will investigate and pursue your best interests as a paying customer at this school.
 
You’ve seen the stickers; Great Product, Horrible Service. 
 
We, with your support, will demand service… on our terms.  Remember that each name on a petition has an annual value of approximately $44,000.  I can’t reveal the complete plan for how this will all go down, but people, I assure you that my business studies in management will be put to a very effective use.  GI Joe always said knowledge was power…

 

Tasty tidbit for y’all:  Wonder why you’re internet speed is so slow and unreliable?  I will investigate this further, but I just received a report that this is due to Babson leasing bandwidth out to local businesses.  Bet ya didn’t know that one.
 
Lets see them put our money where their mouth is.

 

While partaking in a lovely study session in oh-so-wonderful Map Hill, I was informed by a resident that the cable is out.  Yes people, every tv is cable free. And you thought an empty hot water heater was bad?  Bust out the DVD’s if you think you’ll be watchin TV.

 

Looks like its either time to break out an antenna or pass out listenin to the white noise of static.

To help all you stressed out residents of Babson, The good Reverend has decided to share a little home styled recipe with y’all.  You can make it yourself next time you’re at trim and I’ve found this treat to turn every meal into a smile.  And hey, it can even impress a few folk who’ve never heard of a proper milkshake before.  Tweak it and master it and carry on a tradition that was passed on to me by one of my well respected upperclassmen.

The Reverend’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Mid-West Milkshake

1. Start with a full size green glass
2. Next, fill it two thirds of the way full with chocolate ice-cream (or custard if you wanna be anal) in a fashion that it spirals up the walls of the glass (Important)
3. Add a hearty squeeze of chocolate syrup
4. Grab a knife and walk over to the peanut butter
5. Get about a lil less than a spoonfull’s worth of PB and use the knife to slide it into the glass (Careful, too much and you’ll taste nothin but peanut butter!)
6. Now this part is really up to your own preference
   I fill the glass with 2% milk till its about half way from the ice cream to the top of the glass (less milk for a thicker shake, if you want to eat it with a spoon)    

   Adjust as necesarry

*Optional Accesories*
Get clever people, use whatever asset you can!
A friend of mine in trim can typically hook it up with some whipped cream
Drizzle some chocolate/caramel on top when you’re done
If it’s Sunday, try sundae toppings
Go classic and dip a cookie or brownie in it

 

PS- Don’t expect any regularity for me to be so positive about trim, this is just one way to make life better.  So for all you haters reading this, this time you can fuckin bite me if you don’t like the fuckin milkshake, in fact, choke on it if you don’t like it.

Aside from him though, was Alvin Wade, the speaker and master of ceremonies for today. The Black Student Union was out in force, distributing fliers basically of an excerpt from the email I posted earlier. Other members were around, passing out signs to be held, and the pledge stated in the email was bannered across the windows of the walkway connecting the Library to the Gerber Building. At approximately 1:00 pm, the speaking began. Alvin Wade did the right thing by giving out one official story of the incident, and detailed how and why it was offensive. The costume was indeed done with malicious, offensive, and racial intent. I still do not know the name of the individual who was in the blackface costume, but believe me if I did, I’d be sure to disclose him for public shame. In all honesty he should be the one we blaim for this incident. He did indeed know what the implications of blackface were, and that fact in conjunction with a facebook profile filled with racial and sexist harrassment, does constitute a need for attention to this subject.

On the other hand though, I feel that there is a ripple effect the Black Student Union may have not forseen. They may be feeling that they should unite, strengthen the power of their voices through demonstration, push for disciplinary action, and therefore be delivered a newfound level of respect and courtesy. But the intentions may cast a dangerous forecast. We all know that racism is a very sensitive issue. We cannot say it doesn’t exist even if there are no major incidents. Yet also, we have become so liberal in what we accept cross-culturaly, we feel hesitant to admit it does exist, because in some social situations, racial slurs may fly across the dialogues of multi-racial groups of friends, yet no one is offended.

I want to make it clear right here and now. I support zero tolerance towards prejudice behavior of any nature. But I feel as if the BSU may be overeacting a bit here. Generally, from the reactions I’ve already gathered on this whole matter come to say one thing. The Black Student’s here, at a highly diverse school where there is nor real majority in comparing whites to minorities, these black students still feel threatened. While they display their organizational strength, on this particular inicident, they also show their own personal weakness of integrity and resistance to such behavior. I fear now, that the backlash of their actions will be an overwhelming amount of Political Correctness. Please read the following excerpt from a facebook group responding to the email:

“Political Correctness at Babson has gotten way out of hand. To defeat the biased society that we live in we must choose education and other proactive methods to change the viewpoints of individuals that might commit distasteful acts. Furthermore, we must choose not to be offended by such acts of stupidity because to choose to take offense just fans the flames of these hateful causes. Uniting to support outrage is mob-like mentality, and it fosters the UNREAL circumstances that exist within the micro-chasm that is Babson. This is not the real world, and to impose upon the student body “a call to action” is disrespectful to the peaceful existence that we enjoy. This is private school, there are no fights here, there should be no fear of discrimination either as this fear is a choice of the individual, and our school policies disallow such perceived inequality. It is counterproductive to further segregate ourselves from the biased individual, it is our responsibility to respect his views and attempt to assimilate him to our equality based society.
Can we AGREE NOT TO PROTEST? Can’t we all just get along?” – http://babson.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2215482118&ref=nf

I’ve said my piece. Now you say yours.

“DEAR BABSON COMMUNITY – WE HAVE FAILED ONE ANOTHER

There was a very unfortunate event that compromised the integrity of ALL Babson students this weekend. A student chose to paint himself black and depict a representation of Blackface minstrelsy as his costume, and we, as a community, did nothing in response. This is not a minority issue, this is a Babson College issue. This is about stereotypes, cultures, sexism, religious beliefs, and all the issues we should address. We will NOT fall to our stereotypes, and we will stand up as a student body representing ONE.

We can only be as strong as our weakest members, and when we allow certain individuals in this community to impede on the rights and privileges of others, then we have FAILED ONE ANOTHER

In celebration of our sense of community and willingness to throw off the “Babson Stereotypes” we are having a demonstration. As a student body, we cannot allow the small group of students that are holding on to the stereotypes of a “suburban college” to hold us back. If you represent any group on campus: fraternity, ethnic group, sports team, political affiliation, and all others… and you believe in a unified Babson, represent yourself and the Babson community tomorrow at the demonstration. Don’t let a class, a friend, or a trim lunch stand between you and your chance to change the culture here at Babson College.

Let your participation be your voice!

Stand up for yourself, stand up for your beliefs, stand for your community

COME OUT AND SUPPORT ONE BABSON

THURSDAY – NOVEMBER 2^nd – HORN LIBRARY – 12:45 PM

A call to the Babson Community for Zero Tolerance against behavior that denigrates the Babson community and compromises the integrity of the student body….

A call to the Babson Community for Zero Tolerance against behavior that denigrates the Babson community and compromises the integrity of the student body….

A call to the Babson Community for Zero Tolerance against behavior that denigrates the Babson community and compromises the integrity of the student body….

A call to the Babson Community for Zero Tolerance against behavior that denigrates the Babson community and compromises the integrity of the student body….

A call to the Babson Community for Zero Tolerance against behavior that denigrates the Babson community and compromises the integrity of the student body….

A pledge to recognize the social implications of your actions…

A pledge to unsubscribe to the Babson Stereotypes….

A pledge to prevent any students from RUINING Babson’s reputation

A pledge to understand what true social responsibility means…

A realization that I am responsible for the community and all its members…

A decree that we will all stand united as ONE BABSON

ONE BABSON DEMONSTRATION THURSDAY – NOVEMBER 2^nd – HORN LIBRARY – 12:45 PM

Now, I am just one writer for this site. I do not pledge to represent our opinion on a whole. Take note though, that in this email, the only people this problem (in email format) is being adressed to, is the Ugrads. Additionally, look at the logo of the SGA; “the voice of the student body” written below it. And having said that, as I read through this email, I feel left with my typical cynical sensations, but also a sense of responsibility to support zero tolerance towards stereotyping and other racist behavior. But honestly, I feel most strongly a highly repressed laugh. Maybe I really don’t understand the behavior or its implications, but seriously, I didn’t hear about this from any of my friends. Even those of a darker skin tone.

Seriously though, looking at what the email really says the issue is about, “This is about stereotypes, cultures, sexism, religious beliefs, and all the issues we should address. We will NOT fall to our stereotypes, and we will stand up as a student body representing ONE.” All of the afformentioned issues to me, seem completely irrelevant to the incident. I guess theres some facebook group about how we’re a racist campus, but seriously, check the halloween pictures of this facebook author’s profile. He dressed up as Urkel or however you spell the annoying super nerd’s name. Pardon me if I sense a touch of Irony.

As far as calling this a racist campus, I kinda feel as if that may be a lil more of an insult to Babson than an factual claim. I’m not trying to pidgeon hole this issue, but where I’m from, we’d just handle it differently. If someone made a mockery of any one of my friends races, regardless of skin tone or ethnic or religious affiliation, we’d just take the son of a bitch thats runnin his mouth out back and we’d just handle it like that. It’s a little primitive, but our violent, yet discreet and subtle zero tolerance policy seems to take care of things quite well. I know Rednecks whose best friends are black and aren’t ashamed that their white friend has a confederate flag since he’s from the south.

I’m gonna wrap this one up now. But hopefully I sparked a flame in some of you. Ponder over this issue with me a little while. I really don’t know where I should stand, but I want to encourage discussion and display some support to this kid’s cause. There are some dumbass racist muthas here, but they’re pretty isolated, and the “miniority” communities definitely have a towering advantage over such ignorant and bigoted individuals. I agree though, behavior like this shouldn’t be tolerated, and in this particular incident, I think that by the sounds of things, it mostly wasn’t. How many people even saw this guy?