A Post-Katrina Expulsion of 4 Black Students

[flowomo]

http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/11/08/carey

When Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf coast, many college students took extraordinary steps to get to safety or let their families know they were OK.

A student at William Carey College, in Hattiesburg, Miss., reportedly took a small campus generator out of a storage shed that was damaged by the storms and brought it to a dormitory, where students used it to charge cell phones to try to communicate with their loved ones. It is not clear who took the generator, but four black students say that they were expelled — without the opportunity to defend themselves — because of the incident.

The students say that while they were among those in the dormitory who benefited from the generator, they are being treated unfairly because they are black, and that white students who used the generator are not being punished.

[beyurslf]

1. Imagine that. Racism in the south!

[flowomo]

2. and linked to the looting/shopping/using problem