Students at Stanford University were caught in a scheme to ruin the inauguration of their new president-elect.
According to a leaked email, members of a campus organization called “Who’s Teaching Us?” plotted to use a “mass of people” to protest. Why? Because the new president was a continuation of the “legacy of white leadership and cisgender male leadership.”
Earlier this year, Stanford announced Marc Tessier-Lavigne as its new president. Although The Stanford Review described him as having “spectacular and singular experience, outlook, and skills”, this apparently wasn’t enough for the dissenters.
Tomorrow we'll inaugurate Marc Tessier-Lavigne as the 11th #StanfordPresident. Follow along live here: https://t.co/y8fNFKqu7N pic.twitter.com/xoi4tyuPWN
— Stanford University (@Stanford) October 20, 2016
Initially, when word spread that the new president would be a white male, there was backlash, including The Stanford Political Journal which wrote:
…it would be presumptuous to assume that there were no non-white or non-male individuals who would have been at least as qualified and willing to lead the university.
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