Change in direction

Due to some technical difficulties and running into a wall with my investigation I decided to change my course. In many of the stories I was interested in working on, many things were coming up dealing with different types of blatant and almost hidden types of discrimination on campus. I found that while one of the most basic types of discrimination still occurs here at UNI, there are also many different forms that people may not often think about.

Additionally, how these incidents were dealt with continued to gather my interest. Before I knew it I even became involved in some of the controversy when I was removed from a forum to discuss discrimination on campus and reprimanded by a member of administration for publishing my experience. I found my story, and Jewelette's interesting because it was almost like certain people were putting a lot of time and effort into keeping the truth of these kinds of incidents on the down low.

I have reorganized my project to investigate these types of discrimination on campus, and how the administration deals with each of these separate incidents. I think it will be very interesting to take a closer look at the different types of actions they take.

I have already done a considerable amount of work for this project. Last night I completed my video, which includes the Silent Protest by Maucker Union before Thanksgiving break and interviews with both the student that was assaulted and another student who attended the rally.

I have conducted an interview with Kate Klocke, a personal wellness student who was a victim of agriculture discrimination when her professor taught her class that all large farms practiced animal cruelty and were negative ways to get food.

I have also conducted an interview with the director of the ROTC who informed me about the discrimination many veterans experience when returning from war. He said often people will treat them as a loose cannon, especially in the aftermath of the Fort Hood incident. I will be attending one of their early morning training and possibly a class to get pictures and make this story into a slide show.

For my article I will interview members of the administration about how they deal with incidents of this nature, and how they would respond to allegations that they have attempted to sweep recent incidents under the rug.