This morning CNN produced an article about 3 students from UNC Chapell Hill who got shot in the head by a man allegedly over a parking space but police are investigating if this was more a hate crime itself. The shooter is cooperating with police. There are allegations of comments online that has been surfacing and spreading about how the shooter being atheist said something around the lines of "when it comes to insults, your religion started this, not me. If your religion kept its big mouth shut, so would I". This has not yet been verified by cnn and other news sources.
But I believe how the media covered it and speaking with colleagues about even the potential of such a threat causing raising for conversation. Many times, the details of such events are unexplainable unless such hate is explicitly given. I believe that religious hate with diversity is another area where universities often ignore. But I hope these conversations will shed light to students safety, inclusion efforts at the university. How should universities respond?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/11/us/chapel-hill-shooting/index.html
Dean Choi
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