ITT: People who think they have an idea what this is actually about.
Second, "queer alliance resource center...?" Some of these demands sometimes seem like legitimate parody.]
A. Queer people on campus actually want a resource center.
B. The resource center already exists (as it does on other campuses throughout the country).
C. The reason why the students were protesting was because the resource center as well as the person-of-color recruitment and retention centers are in the basement of a building that's still unsound and has had problems with things like contaminated water. What started this whole thing in the first place was a white board that was supposed to be on a wall falling on a student.
The point of the topic (for me at least) is less that the protestors don't have a point and more that their methods were objectionable. People have a right to use Sather Gate. It's a terrible thing to simply deprive them of that right because they're white.
PiT, they blocked everyone from Sather Gate, not just white students. I had to go through the side and I can tell you there were a ton of non-white people there with me. The only people I think they let through were students with disabilities.
That's different from what (few seconds of footage, admittedly) was in videos I saw, but even if they did block everyone that's
still pretty bad. We don't get to control the movement of fellow civilians on public property.