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The Daily OrangeMake this controversy bring change
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Posted: 10/21/05, 3:23 AM EST Section: Opinion
Will anything really change? That's the question that should be asked as the HillTV controversy envelops this university in a haze of anger, hurt and resentment.
While the producers of "Over The Hill" offer apologies like petulant children caught with their hands in the cookie jar, while SU officials scramble to conceal whatever blemish this incident has left on the university and while people who aren't directly affected or offended by the situation dismiss the coverage of it as "sensational," those who are new to Syracuse University should wonder if this is what the climate was like after the blackface incident that took place on this very campus a few years back.
Did that incident prompt all of the "dialogue" that there is so much talk about right now? Did that incident highlight the ugly truth about racism on this campus and cause everyone to rethink the kind of climate that exists at this school?
Apparently not, since we're dealing with yet another racially and sexually offensive incident, the type of which seems to pop up here at SU every few years. Since the student body then failed to bring about any real changes in response to the climate that exists here at SU, it is now up to the current student population to ensure that, yes, things will change this time around, and that such ugly incidents that have rocked SU's past and present have absolutely no place in its future.
Robert Smith
Sophomore advertising major
While the producers of "Over The Hill" offer apologies like petulant children caught with their hands in the cookie jar, while SU officials scramble to conceal whatever blemish this incident has left on the university and while people who aren't directly affected or offended by the situation dismiss the coverage of it as "sensational," those who are new to Syracuse University should wonder if this is what the climate was like after the blackface incident that took place on this very campus a few years back.
Did that incident prompt all of the "dialogue" that there is so much talk about right now? Did that incident highlight the ugly truth about racism on this campus and cause everyone to rethink the kind of climate that exists at this school?
Apparently not, since we're dealing with yet another racially and sexually offensive incident, the type of which seems to pop up here at SU every few years. Since the student body then failed to bring about any real changes in response to the climate that exists here at SU, it is now up to the current student population to ensure that, yes, things will change this time around, and that such ugly incidents that have rocked SU's past and present have absolutely no place in its future.
Robert Smith
Sophomore advertising major
