African Explosion aims to add diversity to campus
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Traditional African clothing and rugs were sold at the MSC plaza today during African Explosion.
Marshall University students were exposed to parts of African culture outside of the Memorial Student Center Thursday as part of the Organization of African Students’ African Explosion.
The organization had a table by the memorial fountain, where they were selling traditional African clothing, including dashikis and rugs.
Sophomore computer information and digital imaging double major Moya Dixon said the organization buys clothing from several vendors across the United States.
According to Dixon, the purpose of the African Explosion and the ongoing goal of the Organization of African Students is to add more diversity to Marshall’s campus.
Sophomore psychology major Octavia Wilson said joining the organization has helped her grow as a person.
“I was able to become more in touch with who I am,” Wilson said.
The last large event the originization had was the Taste of Africa Fashion Show. The African Explosion was the organization’s last event of the semester, but there will be an interest meeting April 29.
Wilson said she hopes the organization’s events help spread an awareness of the diversity already on campus and bring people together.
“The African community is really one big family,” Wilson said. “That’s what I want this organization to bring to campus.”
According to Wilson, flyers will be posted about the interest meeting. Wilson said she encourages students to look out for bigger and better events next semester.
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Aristotle Bean • Apr 23, 2016 at 8:55 pm
I have a question:
Why are people from all different races — other than white — allowed and even encouraged to form groups, funded by taxpayers and sanctioned by the university, while those of white European ancestry are not?
And if it because whites are inherently evil, or somebody decided out of the blue that only Caucasians must be judged by the history of the 0.5% of whites in America whose ancestors actually held slaves (as many blacks and Native Americans did as well), then another question:
Why ,in an open academic atmosphere known as a “university”, where ideas are meant to be aired and tested and scrutinized in order to develop a student’s critical thinking skills, do we not just say so.
P.S. Do the 750,000+ white Americans who fought and died opposing slavery during the Civil War count?
Thanks.
Ivlook forward to a flood of answers. Any minute now.
Any minute now ….