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Harambe the Gorilla - UMass Email

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Hello Syc 3 residents 1 hope you are all enjoying your first weekend at UMass in case you torgot, this s loor RAs We wanted to take a moment to address some phrases that are being written on the whiteboards-specificaty, ones involving Harambe" We understand that social medu has been populanizing Harambe in some crude ways, which may appeat as tunny to groups of people. However, these comments are not only derogatory, but also micro-aggressions to some UMass Students Similar to RAPs (Residential Academic Programs), UMass also otters "Defined Residential Communtes" (or DRPs). In which groups of students sharing similar hertages, ethnicities and/or identities are able to live together We ofter a DRP tocusing on African Amencan hentage and t is called the "Harambe floor "Harambe" ts uctualy a Swahill word, which stands for "the point where people pull together it has a very postive connotabons, but current social meaia has been misrepresenting it The noot has been in existence tor many years, so any negatve remarks regarding "Harambe" will be seen as a direct attack to our campus's Alrican- American community, Please be caretul of what gets writen on your whiteboards, as wes as what you write on theen if you are not the one wnting hese remarks, please let us or the RA on duty know ot body parts runs the isk of To be very clear using poputarzes phraseshashtags which encourage the exposhon being reported as a Tte IX Incident These are sexual assaut Incidences that not ony get reported to Communit Standard, but also to the Dean of Students. Needless to say, very serious ncident-especiary for a first year student be sate ths weekend and watch out for any of these phrases We need to be sure to respect a Anyways please UMass community members Let us know i If you have any questions/concerns

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Allch Chcar

Allch Chcar

Sep 07, 2016 at 12:49PM EDT

Yes there is infact a thing where Universities segregate housing.

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AcediantOne

AcediantOne

Sep 07, 2016 at 07:51PM EDT in reply to Allch Chcar

Yeah, that's what I took from this. Don't you dare micro-aggress against the designated black person floor.

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