User talk:Easternalum

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Wikipedia is not a place to vent your grievances[edit]

Wikipedia content must follow our neutral point of view policy. Please stop using Wikipedia to vent your grievances. In the scheme of the history of the university, your little kerfluffle is essentially meaningless drip in the sea, and certainly not worthy being called out in its own section. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 00:08, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Red Pen, I would like to address your statement: "In the scheme of the history of the university, your little kerfluffle is essentially meaningless drip in the sea, and certainly not worthy being called out in its own section."

You're comment is empirically inaccurate. Also, what credentials do you have to speak about the history of the university? The university is in conflict with the federal government - and soon to be federal policy - which is surely notable. There has been a growing counter-response, which can be empirically verified with citations, from students and alum. The university has been criticized in the past for their stance on lgbt issues. Some of these issues are hard to cite due to lack of transparency on the university's part and will unfortunately have to be omitted due to such, but the contemporary conflict is citable and newsworthy. Your comment about neutrality policy could have been useful and generous, but rather you criticized a user and deleted relevant information (rather than rewording such information). Thus, you portrayed yourself as having a stake in this information being omitted from the page. -- Rab1130 (talk) 01:31, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

oh please. not a year goes by that students dont protest something that the administration did or didnt do. Now if the protests lead to changes in policy and the hiring of a trans person as "Student Affairs Liaison" then there would probably be something worth including, but give the total lack of response from the administration, this is no more impact or import than a fart in a hurricane.-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 02:33, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]