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UCLA Pays Students to Fight Whiteness, Patriarchy

<p><em>This is as liberal as it gets&comma; folks&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The University of California-Los Angeles &lpar;UCLA&rpar; is paying 18 students &dollar;13 an hour to fight &ldquo&semi;social injustices&comma;&rdquo&semi; &ldquo&semi;privilege&comma;&rdquo&semi; and &ldquo&semi;oppression&period;&rdquo&semi; Students involved in the Diversity Peer Leader internship program will be tasked with helping others &ldquo&semi;navigate a world that operates on whiteness&comma; patriarchy&comma; and heteronormativity as the primary ideologies&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Students involved in the program will &ldquo&semi;create change within their spheres of influence&rdquo&semi; by hosting group dialogues with other students on issues like race relations&comma; cross-cultural communication&comma; toxic masculinity&comma; and gun violence&period; In exchange&comma; interns will receive training in dialogue facilitation&comma; leadership&comma; and conflict resolution&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Depending on the number of hours put in by each intern&comma; the program will cost&nbsp&semi;UCLA between &dollar;28&comma;000 and &dollar;42&comma;000 per year&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As UCLA student Arik Schneiderman points out&comma; &ldquo&semi;The cost of the program alone could have gone to multiple scholarships&comma; and potentially given a disadvantaged student a full ride through college&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Funding for the Diversity Peer Leader internship program&nbsp&semi;comes from UCLA&rsquo&semi;s mandatory &ldquo&semi;Student Services Fee&comma;&rdquo&semi; which costs each student &dollar;1&comma;128 every academic year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The program is a &ldquo&semi;waste of student funds to address the leftist agenda&comma;&rdquo&semi; says Schneiderman&period; &ldquo&semi;Students should only be forced to subsidize programs which are necessary&period; It is the perfect example of the worst of Big Government&comma; Big Bureaucracy&period; It does nothing and turns into a bottomless pit for money&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In March&comma; the leadership program hosted&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;SolidARiTy&colon; Plural Identities&comma;&rdquo&semi; an event in which students were encouraged to create art to represent intersecting identities such as class and race&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8212&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A similar&nbsp&semi;internship at Miami University pays up to seven interns each year to promote &ldquo&semi;social justice and radical feminism&rdquo&semi; on campus&period; In March&comma; intern Elisabeth Dodd pointed to the architecture of the student center as one of the major social justice issues on campus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;In our student center&comma; everything is glass&period; And it kind of felt like students are on display&hellip&semi;Miami definitely advertises its students&comma; in a way that isn&rsquo&semi;t comfortable for everybody&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> Perhaps the conservative leadership will one day realize how biased our universities are&comma; and actually do something about it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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