Thursday, December 2, 2010

Fake White Student Union Flyers at West Chester University « Student Activism

Fake White Student Union Flyers at West Chester University « Student Activism

Fake White Student Union Flyers at West Chester University

Early this week my Google search results started lighting up with hits on an old post on White Student Unions. It took me a while to track down the source, but I eventually did — it turns out that someone was posting flyersat West Chester University advertising a meeting of a new white student group on campus.

West Chester, outside Philadelphia, is a public university of twelve thousand students. Its student body is about 85% white. As photos of the flyers circulated on Twitter, WCU students were upset and annoyed … but also skeptical.

As it turns out, they were right to be. University administrators have announced that there is no White Student Union forming on the campus, and that the flyers were a hoax. The intent, they say, was “to draw anti-racists