Some students at Brown University are getting very stressed out trying to balance the demands of course work with their desire to engage in protest activity. The College Fix.com Assistant Editor Dave Huber says one of the deans at the Ivy League institution is sympathetic to student who seek time to protest. He provides them with notes they can take to their professors encouraging them to give extensions to complete papers and prepare for exams.
“Some of the complaints came from students whose professors had the cajones to say, ‘no!’ ”
In his article, Huber tells of one student, Liliana Sampedro, who is active with a group that demands more diversity in Brown University inclusion action plan. She had a research presentation that needed to be completed that week. “I remember emailing the professor and begging her to put things off another week,” she told Huber. The professor denied her request.
“Homework was the least of my worries,” she said.
Huber pointed out that if anyone has an excuse to complain about lack of time it is students who are working to pay their way through school.
Huber was a guest on 790 KABC’s McIntyre in the Morning with Doug McIntyre and Terrie Rae Elmer.
