So I’m guessing this is one of those Georgia schools full of leftists I keep reading about.
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Like, I’m totally on this kid’s side, but like, he really, like, needs an english writing adviser worst of all.
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Nurse! Call security! There are people waiting in my waiting room!
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Secretary seems to think she is working for a Hollywood producer and not a University.
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Yeah, I sort of agree with you. Removing race from the behavior does not make this a better story. How can a college advisor’s office behave in such a manner toward a student seeking their services? That’s unacceptable. If it’s found to be in some way racially motivated, then it’s even worse. Waiting to see an advisor is in no way harassment, unless expecting people to do their job is harassment in general.
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Still, it would have been a perfect rejoinder if Bruce had said, “Yes, ma’am – if you’d just show me where the colored folks’ waiting room is.”
I’m sure the irony would have been lost though.
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This reminds me of an episode of Judge Mathis. A young college student had her classes dropped due to having some difficulty with financial aid papers. Mathis had told her to make sure she meets with the advisors and get them to help her. He said sometimes they aren’t as responsive as they should be but to stay on them, that that is their job and they are supposed to help you.
I guess he’d be accused of harrassment too.
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Racism, pure and simple. One of the last refuges of racists is to claim that they are not racist because they don’t use the N-word.
Everyone is jumping on the adviser here, because the situation seems so obvious and one-sided. But it is in exactly that situation where one should hear both sides. We do not know what prior history she and the student may have had, and that may make all the difference. Did he bother her daily? Act inappropriately in previous sessions? Ring her doorbell at home? Let’s reserve judgment until we know more.
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This staff member at Kennesaw should be asked to resign or be fired immediately.
Made me look it up:
Solecism: a grammatical mistake in speech or writing.synonyms:(grammatical) mistake, error, blunder
Thanks. It’s not so often I run across a word I don’t know. Now I just have to find an opportunity to use it. 
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Sounds like previous experience consisted of appointments set and then canceled.
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According to twitter, she treats pretty much EVERYONE the same way she treated this student. That’s why he keeps repeating that it’s not a race issue. She really just hates her job.
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I’m sorry, but I advise and teach at a university. My office is in an advising center, and the four of us work pretty damn hard. The only times we have turned students away is when 1) they did not attempt to work on a schedule before our registration meetings (and we tell them to do that in advance), 2) we are heading to class, or 3) we are leaving the office. Otherwise, some students might have to wait a few minutes for a meeting. In addition to scheduled appointments, we have scheduled walk-in hours four afternoons a week, so students can do exactly what Mr. Bruce did- see his adviser.
Apparently, Kennesaw’s Wellstar School doesn’t take advising seriously, and it and the university should have to pay a price for that.The only joy they should have is taking Ms. Dawson’s keys and id and escorting her off the campus.
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harassment n : a state of being that occasions the inadvertent discomfiture of overly officious white women.
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Frankly I Don’t Give A Damn… Over my career I earned 3 PHDs, still can not spell and for sure can’t put a grammatical sentence together. However, I do know that ideas are where it is at and when I was teaching always, always had overflowing classes with years long waiting lists.
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I have decided that there are two kinds of racists: Blatant and Latent. Some swear they are not racist because they aren’t blatantly so. The sad, and scary, part is that their latent racism is such an integral part of their lives, they really don’t see it as racism.
For instance, the Georgia principal insulting folks as they left graduation. She says that calling them black instead of African American doesn’t make her a racist.
She doesn’t get it that it wasn’t about what she called them, it was about her calling them out.
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When I was still in the work world it was common for passive-aggressive types to throw the word “harass” around casually.
They knew damned well it was a “trigger” word. It’s evidently still true.
More than once I warned a subordinate not to use the word casually, or as some kind of coded threat, especially in a “zero tolerance” workplace so common these days.
If someone was being mistreated in some way, I wanted to know about it, but don’t talk “harassment” of some some friendly office banter absent any kind of sexual innuendo, bullying or personal insult.
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I feel the counselors pain. Customers call me all day long, harassing me about the software did this the software did that, how do I get this data, that report won’t run…blah blah blah…my life would be much easier with no customers, just as this counselors life would be so much easier without any students to counsel…hmmm…I can’t put my finger on it, but something about that isn’t right…
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This must be a joke response because I’m falling off my chair laughing. If he had a habit of ringing her doorbell (and she was aware of it), wouldn’t she have called the police. He is, after all, black. Bother her daily? You do realize that the young man said that he had made previous appointments, which she cancelled. Waiting in a waiting room to talk to an adviser about your class schedule at a school that happily takes your tuition check is not a crime. Even when the student is an unarmed black man.
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