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Brehm endorses recommendations from Racial Incidents Team
Sept. 13, 2001
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Repeating calls for civility and respect, IU-Bloomington Chancellor Sharon Brehm announced today she has endorsed new recommendations by the campus Racial Incidents Team.
The chancellor, concerned over reports of verbal confrontations and even physical assaults of some international students, said the group's recommendations should be distributed as widely as possible. Brehm added, however, that the vast majority of IU students have behaved in an exemplary fashion, organizing observances, giving blood and arranging other activities aimed at helping the victims of Tuesday's attacks.
The task force's recommendations are as follows:
1. Report any intimidating or harassing behavior to residence hall staff, the Bloomington Human Rights Commission, International Services, the Dean of Students' office or IUPD or Bloomington Police.
2. Keep checking IU's websites for solid information about what's happening on and around the campus. Some students may be hiding in their residences out of fear, communicating only by e-mail. The website http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/news is the source for information they can't get immediately from friends or family.
3. Remember that harassers will be held accountable. IU is a place of diversity and will remain so.
4. Report what you see and hear. Beware of rumors.
5. Report information about any suspected harassment, even if it didn't happen to you.
6. Reach out in support and friendship and encourage others to do so.
7. Reject the notion that it's ever acceptable to single out anyone because of their perceived connection to religious, ethnic or political groups, particularly as news reports link certain groups to Tuesday's terrorist attacks.
(Susan Dillman, 812-855-0850, sdillman@indiana.edu)