Black graduate and professional students joined their undergraduate peers by appealing to the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly on Monday, which passed resolutions condemning hate. Leaders of the Black Graduate and Professional Student Association and the Black Graduate Business Association gave presentations to the GPSA. “And so I feel like this is the time where people who are not of color need to really step up.”Following presentations, the GPSA debated Resolution 4: Condemning Hate Crimes and Hate Speech, and Supporting Students, which was modeled off of a resolution passed last Thursday by the Student Assembly. “If it comes out that this person was unofficially or officially … linked to this organization, I would argue that [Psi Upsilon] should be held responsible,” Battaglia said. “It is my perception that there is political will in the GPSA to pass a resolution or to have some kind of discussion or continuing conversation on, for example, training graduate and professional students,” he said.

Source: Daily Sun September 26, 2017 03:56 UTC