Tuesday afternoon [March 4, 2008] in the ST Lab, there were three young adults using the computers for personal use. One of the students was seemingly “white,” the other was “Latino,” and the other was “black.” All three kids were wearing “urban” attire. Needless to say, they did not look like “Wesleyan” students, whatever the hell that means. The monitor profiled them for sitting quietly in the ST lab. Moments later they were accosted in what I would say was a hostile manner by two Public Safety officers, “Do you go here? You don’t go here so you don’t belong here.” Was this really necessary? I would rather have those kids in the ST Lab using the computers than out doing something reckless. This is one of the many reasons that the Middletown community or as some of our more ignorant counterparts call them, “townies,” are so hostile towards Wesleyan students.
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Racial profiling in ST Lab not cool!
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