University Creates Gender-Neutral Bathrooms After Alleged Black Panther Supporter Goes on Hunger Strike to Demand Them
- Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:36am by
Billy Hallowell
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Gender-neutral bathrooms have become a priority at The University of Minnesota-Duluth in Duluth, Minnesota, after student Blair Moses reportedly began a hunger strike. His goal? To convince the school’s administration that they are of paramount necessity. Moses allegedly stated that gender-specific bathrooms are “oppressive” and problematic, thus he took some curious avenues to ensure that more flexible facilities would be installed.
Last month, the student reportedly sent a letter to the school stating that if his demands were not met for more equitable lavatories by April 26, he would begin a three-week hunger strike. According to CampusReform.org’s Oliver Darcy, Moses insisted in his note that the university “take immediate action to begin the process of designating more gender neutral bathrooms.” He also maintained that officials needed to announce the change once it was implemented.
Making good on his word, the student uploaded a video to YouTube late in the day on April 26. In it, he claimed that he hadn’t eaten all day and that he was “sweating” as a result of a lack of nourishment. According to Darcy, the video likely made an impact.
On April 27, just one day after it was posted, the university apparently agreed to both of Moses’ demands. Darcy reports:
Chancellor Lendley C. Black issued a campus-wide e-mail stating the school would take “immediate steps” to resolve the issue and would “provide two gender neutral restrooms” in the student center. Additionally, he pledged that all new construction projects and remodels would include at least one gender neutral restroom.
Lucy Kragness, the chancellor’s Chief of Staff, initially denied knowledge of Moses’s hunger strike, when contacted by Campus Reform on Wednesday. However, when presented with evidence, she acknowledged the strike but refused to offer comment.
Moses was not reachable by Campus Reform for comment. And, curiously, the alleged video he created to announce and publicize his hunger strike has now been made “private” on YouTube.
It should be noted that The Blaze has covered Moses before. In September 2011, Campus Reform published a video of the alleged Black Panther supporter. In the clip, he gets into a verbal altercation with Phil Cleary, a man handing out U.S. Constitutions in honor of Constitution Day.
Here’s the video:
In the video, Moses said that he would “exercise” his Second Amendment rights if Clearly ever attacked the campus’s multicultural center. He also said, “I don’t even believe in the Constitution.”
Update: CampusReform.org was able to secure the video clip that was made private following the publication of the group’s original story about gender-neutral restrooms. You can view it here.
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Comments (150)
huey6367
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:09amShould have called his bluff and let him go on the hunger strike. He can always attend another university – unless they catch wind of his “threat”.
Personally, I don’t want to be in the bathroom with the opposite sex. All the sights, sounds, scents, etc. I think should remain one of those things you just don’t need to know. Men and women too sometimes go to the bathroom to get away from the opposite sex.
Lastly, who runs the university? Since when does the university cater to one individual and not do what THEY deem best for the general student body. They are setting a precedent that they cannot recover from. But then again, most college campuses are pretty liberal and are OK with this sort of thing.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:45amThe univ administration has Private gender specific restrooms, so they won’t be subject to this idiots demands. If my daughter was ever affected by these fools rules, I would cut their heads off. What is wrong with these dopes??
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:49amLet em starve, one less Obama food stamp recipient…….
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 10:01amI smell a rape case followed by a lawsuit and the college will be held at fault NOT THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS THAT PUSHED THIS AGENDA.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 10:11amtrue..let the SOB starve to death. We have pushed into all kinds of stupid things by stupid people
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:14amI guess I don’t understand why these imbiciles woulld believe in mahammad and the koran. Why you ask, look at what happens to gays, lesbians, or others that don’t fit their Utopia World. Remember what Amadinijad said about it? The reason, he stated that was because they kill them over there!…… See Pedophilia is accepted, but when it comes to men with men or women with women its like a Death warrent for them! So, why is it the Black Panthers want to accept it? Do they not know this? When Sharia is placed into a society, I don‘t think they’ll be accepting of it!
Report Post »mtcountrygrl
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:17amMost Universities have BIG problems with sexual assults. This is a BAD IDEA! They have shown that sexual assults increase when you add in co-ed dorms. So lets now make co-ed bathrooms. Brilliant.
Report Post »RedDirtTexas
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 11:33amReminds me of the scene in Blazing Saddles where Cleavon Little ( the new sheriff ) pulls his gun on himself! I mistakingly posted the actual script of the scene in reply to another comment and it got yanked. Give me a break Blaze! It was a funny!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 12:35pmWhat could go wrong?
Report Post »drbage
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 1:07pmGender-neutral bathrooms at an education-neutral university.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 1:27pmInteresting to note that the issue of integrated dorms and gender neutral bathrooms were first introduced by college women in the 1970′s. So its not so much the issue but the fact we are still discussing the same thing 40 years later that should concern us. Let the students decide. Everyone here seems to wrap themselves around the flag and speak of their devotion to liberty. Right up until the point another citizen wants to exercise theirs in a manner they don’t agree with. And I say this to individuals from both sides of the spectrum. Too many people, including virtually all of Congress is way to enchanted by what they believe and hearing themselves talk / comment. Point is very few people are interested in listening to ideological zealots speak about anything. As Shakespeare would have continued…first kill all the lawyers, then kill all the zealots.
Report Post »ACLUHater
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 2:11pmExactly. Let the piece of crap prove his seriousness by dying.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Report Post »ACLUHater
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 2:29pmQ. How can one filthy radical muslim have such influence? A. Because a filthy radical muslim is fradulently occupying the white house.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 4:47pmNATURE is Cruel: Let the Panther die!
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 5:14pmWhat is the old saying about the inmates running the asylum????????????
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 5:47pmLet the turd starve- it’d do him and America some good. It’s just like the liberal MN schools to cave in to the wishes of not only a minority of people, but a single person whining because he feels offended. Frigging Minnesota… I’m embarassed to be from here, which is where I should be- away from here.
Report Post »Phoenyx
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 9:14amI find that having a choice is always the better answer. And if people are so insecure with their own bodies that they feel the need to be in a single sexed bathroom than that is where they should go. But for those people who have the need to be free from the insults and the issues of the single sexed bathroom their needs should be met as well. This boils down to the patriarchal society, faced with hedgemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity that plaques this country.
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:08amStatistically his kind are very high on rapes per year. Gender-neutral bathrooms would make that easier.
Report Post »Watcher1952
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:03amKind of sounds like blackmale/extorsion doens’t it…… The school has now set a bad presidence and will pay for it in the future. When they get sued for allowing or not providing secrity to the person that gets molested or worse in there gender neutral facilities……it would be interesting to see how many and which students are using those restrooms…… Society wonders what is wrong with our school system….these school administrators won’t say “NO” they are afraid…cowards
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:03amThe only university this chump should be at is NU.
Report Post »brntout
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:03amNo wonder they need gender neutral bathrooms.Sounds like this guy has been neutered by TBP’s.
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:02amALL bathrooms should be gender neutral. What about the pool locker rooms? Either have 4 bathrooms and locker rooms, (1 straight guys, 1 gay males, 1 srraight women and 1 lesbian) or just 1 period. There is no reason that a straight male should have to be subject to have a gay male “Gazing” while in a locker room, but if they must, then just make 1 room so it is equal for everyone.
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:11amSeriously? I hope you were being sarcastic in your response.
Report Post »hi
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:19amThey only need 3. The gender neutrals will share the same one.
Report Post »sy212
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:34amI bet you love the kids….
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:00amI would have found his room and pulled up a chair as I ate my wendy’s double in front of him on like day 3!! Hence forth I would have enjoyed my lunches at his bedside while he layed there and starved…….The “university” caved because after only a couple hours this “student” began to sweat??? Yes folks, reminds me of the movie “PCU”…..just like “Idiocracy” a great teachable moment movie!!!!
Report Post »brntout
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:00amThe more I see of this ilk of society, the more I am glad I can proclaim that yes I am a Bitter Clinger.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:59amWhat I get from this is that Moses got jiggy in a bathroom stall once or twice before and wants to relive that experience without having to sneak the girl of his dreams in next time…
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:56amNever submit to ***. Wake up.
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:56amI would anxiously await every video installment to see how much weight he had lost and try to guess ow much longer he had to go before he expired. My bet is I could watch the videos longer than he has the willpower to starve himself.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:55amWow – even obama’s Black Panthers are going gay.
Report Post »retired_one
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 10:36amThey are following Obama. Maybe moochelle was once a man.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:55amExcuse me, but since when does what a bp want / demand have any effect on REAL AMERICANS?
These slimeballs want gender-neutral bathrooms? Head to france. They’ve had them for decades.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:54amI would have let him starve to death first but I am one of those old irrelevant people that the baby commies can’t wait to die off.
Report Post »You know, the ones that believe in God and decency and common sense.
RightUnite
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:52amMeh….. Let ‘em starve… One less moron to feed.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:10amNo kidding, do we bend to the will of every crackpot that threatens a hunger strike now?
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:50amGo on a hunger strike because you want gender-neutral bathrooms? Really? Let the idiot starve to death and take his DNA out of the gene pool. Do humanity a favor.
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:47amHow can this happen, let the bastard starve to death…it’s his right to do whatever he pleases. Shame on the university for lowering their academic standards for the nut.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 9:02amLooks like a great set-up to get raped (hate to be blunt). At least with his/hers, if a man walks in someone takes notice. Here, no big deal. Are academics so smart they are stupid? Let the guy starve to death for his “cause” – that’s what the great ones do.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:47amOver something as stupid as that? Just starve.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:46amAll i can say is OMG
Report Post »Blazebanned
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:46amYep, people like this surely help the “black” cause.It will only be after they start there race war and there are piles of black bodies in the streets that blacks will wake up………maybe……
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:45amso now we are suppose to bow down to these jerks because they want to use the same bathroom PLEASE !!! this is like a child with a tantrm, holding his breath, believe me he would eat soon enough, this is how STUPID our colleges are
Report Post »Steve28
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:44amGive me a break! Sure the ladies will love sharing a restroom with guys and feel secure. Will they now have to have a armed monitor?
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:56amYes, just wait until the actual and alleged molestations, rapes, etc. occur. Dang these college “officials” are stupid! LOL Guess they like to open themselves up for more crime and lawsuits! Yeah, sounds like a lot of fun to me! LOL
If this kid would have starved himself over this matter, so BE it!
One of the dumbest things I’ve heard yet. . .
Report Post »FeliciaJewel
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:58amI for one will not use a bathroom that allows both genders. Your right, I would not feel safe. This is incredibly stupid.
Report Post »williaml
Posted on May 11, 2012 at 2:18amIs this what you would call a “PINK PANTHER”
Report Post »Comeandtakeit
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:43amSince when is a major university run by one spoiled brat? What next? Is he gonna decide he wants something else and threaten to turn blue if he doesn’t get it?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:41amOWS calls the rape rooms.
Report Post »Corwin of Amber
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:39amYou guys must be upset by this. The city is Duluth!
Report Post »jadedinkc
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:52amShould be DA-STUPID!
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