USA faculty, graduates want university to denounce racism after Halloween photo controversy
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Numerous people gathered on March 5 for a protest at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. The protest was due to the resurfacing of pictures of current faculty wearing and holding insensitive racial symbols .
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Two groups at the University of South Alabama recently released open letters to members of the administration, including President Tony Waldrop and the Board of Trustees, regarding March’s Halloween photo controversy.
Nearly 275 faculty of color at USA signed an open letter calling for the university to put out a statement saying that the university is anti-racist, institute term appointments for department chairs and college deans and more.
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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) Three professors at the University of South Alabama have been placed on leave after racially insensitive Halloween photos surfaced of them, the university said.
USA President Tony Waldrop made the announcement Friday. An independent investigation into the incident will be conducted by attorney Suntrease Williams-Maynard, a former trial attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Mobile and a former assistant U.S. attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama and the Southern District of Texas, he said.
The pictures were taken at an on-campus Halloween party in 2014, according to a petition created by USA students, multiple news agencies reported. Then-Dean of the Mitchell College of Business and current finance professor Bob Wood was dressed in a Confederate soldier’s uniform, while professors Alex Sharland and Teresa Weldy posed with a whip and noose.
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