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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1837246" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>BUFFALO, N.Y. – Cries of racism broke out across the campus of the University of Buffalo this week when students found Jim Crow-esque signs in a building on campus.</p><p></p><p>Someone had posted “White Only” and “Black Only” signs near several bathrooms and water fountains in Clemens Hall.</p><p></p><p>“It brought up feelings of the past of a past that our generation has never seen which I think is why it was so shocking for us to see,” Micah Oliver, president for the Black Student Union, tells <a href="http://abc27.com/2015/09/17/white-only-signs-stir-up-controversy-at-university-of-buffalo/" target="_blank">ABC 27</a>.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://eagnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Buffalo-white-only-e1442575991756.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://eagnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Buffalo-white-only-e1442575991756.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>More than 100 students turned out to a Black Student Union meeting to discuss the signs.</p><p></p><p>“There was fear expressed, anger, disappointment – all of that,” according to Oliver.</p><p></p><p>And then, Ashley Powell, a black graduate student, stood up in the meeting to admit she had hung the signs, claiming it was part of an “art project,” The Buffalo News <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/university-at-buffalo/white-only-black-only-signs-at-ub-linked-to-student-art-project-20150916" target="_blank">reports</a>.</p><p></p><p>Students were reportedly “outraged” and “walked out” of the meeting. Other students denounced Powell’s project as “racist” and “an act of terrorism.”</p><p></p><p>According to the News, “the project was for a 400-level art class titled ‘Instillation: Urban Space.’ Powell said the goal of the signs and project was to see what people’s reactions would be to them.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1837246, member: 12952"] BUFFALO, N.Y. – Cries of racism broke out across the campus of the University of Buffalo this week when students found Jim Crow-esque signs in a building on campus. Someone had posted “White Only” and “Black Only” signs near several bathrooms and water fountains in Clemens Hall. “It brought up feelings of the past of a past that our generation has never seen which I think is why it was so shocking for us to see,” Micah Oliver, president for the Black Student Union, tells [URL='http://abc27.com/2015/09/17/white-only-signs-stir-up-controversy-at-university-of-buffalo/']ABC 27[/URL]. [URL='http://eagnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Buffalo-white-only-e1442575991756.jpg'][IMG]http://eagnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Buffalo-white-only-e1442575991756.jpg[/IMG][/URL]More than 100 students turned out to a Black Student Union meeting to discuss the signs. “There was fear expressed, anger, disappointment – all of that,” according to Oliver. And then, Ashley Powell, a black graduate student, stood up in the meeting to admit she had hung the signs, claiming it was part of an “art project,” The Buffalo News [URL='http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/university-at-buffalo/white-only-black-only-signs-at-ub-linked-to-student-art-project-20150916']reports[/URL]. Students were reportedly “outraged” and “walked out” of the meeting. Other students denounced Powell’s project as “racist” and “an act of terrorism.” According to the News, “the project was for a 400-level art class titled ‘Instillation: Urban Space.’ Powell said the goal of the signs and project was to see what people’s reactions would be to them.” [/QUOTE]
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