Mizzou Football-Team streikt gegen President Tim Wolfe

Damit es nicht im SEC-Thread untergeht, diese Meldung ist IMO einen eigenen Thread wert: Das Mizzou-Football-Team ist in den Streik getreten. Seit einiger Zeit gibt es Vorwürfe, dass der President der Universität nichts gegen aufkommenden Rassismus am College unternimmt. Daher fordern die afro-amerikanischen Studenten den sofortigen Rücktritt von Tim Wolfe:

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"The athletes of color on the University of Missouri football team truly believe 'Injustice Anywhere is a threat to Justice Everywhere,'" the tweet read. "We will no longer participate in any football related activities until President Tim Wolfe resigns or is removed due to his negligence toward marginalized students' experiences. WE ARE UNITED!!!!!"

Die Vorfälle unter anderem

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Racial tension has been brewing at Missouri's campus in Columbia since September, when Payton Head, the Missouri Students Association president and an African-American, said he was racially abused while walking. Students protested when it took nearly a week for the university chancellor to address the incident.
Then in October, a student yelled the N-word at members of the Legion of Black Collegians in a campus plaza while they were rehearsing for a play. And later that month, someone smeared feces in the shape of a swastika on a bathroom wall in a new residence hall.
The university downplayed the incident, and more backlash toward administrators ensued, with Wolfe enduring the most.

Die Coaches stehen übrigens hinter den Spielern, wie Gary Pinkel via Twitter verlauten ließ.

Mehr: http://espn.go.com/college-footba…m-wolfe-resigns

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Haben die Spieler das Recht, Wolfe bzw. sein Verhalten für ungeeignet zu halten? Selbstverständlich.

Habe sie das Recht, diese Meinung öffentlich zu äußern? Ich denke schon.

Haben Sie das Recht zu streiken?

Selbstverständlich haben sie das. Wenn die Verhältnisse so unzumutbar sind und die Coaches klar auf ihrer Seite sind, dann sind das für mich klare Anzeichen, dass dieser Streik sogar notwendig ist.

Ein sehr interessanter Artikel: Flipping the Script: Missouri strike proves that players, not the NCAA, hold the power in collegiate athletics

Zitat von Andy Staples

What could the schools do in such a situation? Nothing. They can't revoke the players' scholarships, because the NCAA's attorneys have spent years spitting out court filings that claim the key reason athletes should not be paid to play college sports is that they are simply members of the student body participating in an extracurricular activity. Northwestern's attorneys argued to the NLRB that athletes are not employees because they are, in fact, regular students. "Northwestern considers its students who participate in NCAA Division I sports, including those who receive athletic scholarships, to be students, first and foremost," Northwestern vice president for university relations Alan Cubbage wrote in a statement on March 26, 2014. "We believe that participation in athletic events is part of the overall educational experience for those students, not a separate activity."

Of course athletes are different from regular students. Of course the athletic scholarship is a form of compensation that has far less to do with school than it does with sports. But when you've spent years pretending under oath that athletes are average students and their scholarships aren't tied to their performance on the field, then you can't yank their scholarships for organizing a boycott. That's something regular students do a lot. They belong to a very idealistic age group. Protests are part of the deal on a college campus.

To discipline players who boycott would be an admission that their scholarship is compensation for their athletic participation. (Again, of course it's compensation for athletic participation. The people in charge have chosen to pretend it isn't.) It would also be an admission that revenue sport athletes aren't regular students. Regular students wouldn't lose their financial aid for protesting peacefully.