Hate Report site up
Nov. 30, 2007
A Web site where students can report incidents of bias on the MU campus is up and running as of Wednesday.
The site offers a place to check boxes detailing what happened, including verbal assault, retaliation, unwanted sexual conduct, fear of safety and other, with a place to fill in information.
It also includes a place to specify which type of bias occurred.
There is also a box to describe what happened in the incident, association with the incident (victim or witness), affiliation with MU and optional contact information.
The Missouri Students Association has been working with Equity Center Director Noel English this semester to implement the plan.
MSA Senate Speaker Jonathan Mays and juniors Kelley Robinson and Sameera Ali co-authored a Senate bill in October 2006 calling for the MSA executive branch to re-implement the Hate Report, which was a statistical log of anonymously reported hate crimes committed on campus.
The Hate Report was published from 1996 to 1999, when one of its main proponents, Marcia Chatelain, graduated.
Robinson said this is important in city like Columbia, where people have not been exposed to many people of other cultures.
The next step to the plan is for English to submit a request to the Campus Institutional Review Board so the information gathered from the report can be released to MSA.
Mays said Chancellor Brady Deaton, Student Affairs Vice Chancellor Cathy Scroggs and Chief Diversity Officer Roger Worthington said at a Four Front meeting that they would support English and the Equity Office in any way necessary.
Mays said he plans to make sure they keep that promise and that English gets any support she needs.
Robinson said the results of the report will be used to spread awareness of hate-related issues and to promote safety on campus.
The MU Campus Climate Study, which was completed in 2005, states that 2.4 percent of its participants reported being victims of hate crimes at MU.
"Marginalized students feel that they're not represented," Robinson said.
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