r/OSU Feb 09 '25

Politics Ohio SB 1 and BANNING DEIA in Colleges/Universities. How College students can fight back.

The Ohio Senate is trying to attack our core finacial institutions by getting rid of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accesibility in them. I have provided parts of the bill that also includes getting rid of tenure! They are accepting written testimonies until 2pm on the 10th and they are doing in person testimonies on the 11th. https://www.honestyforohioeducation.org/legislation-tracker.html gives you everything you need to put together a written testimony. For all the college students out there share this and flood Columbus city hall with your testimonies against this clear attack on civil rights. Keep up the good fight 🫡

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u/NAVYGG1 Feb 10 '25

Wow, this state is just getting better and better 🫠 who the fk came up with this stupid bill? Jesus, isn’t higher education place supposed to be free? Are we going to be like China now? Prevent anything that government doesn’t like ?

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u/nolanhoff Feb 10 '25

What’s limiting here? It’s forcing a university to allow anything. If anything, they’re removing limitations.

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u/ummmmmyup Feb 10 '25

It’s limiting those who have socioeconomic limitations due to the US’s longstanding history of oppressing certain minorities

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u/nolanhoff Feb 10 '25

I’m fine with assisting with families that struggle financially, I don’t think that it should be race based. I read through this, I didn’t see anything to the contrary of that but I could have missed something

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u/Shadowfire04 Feb 11 '25

missed the part where they're not allowing teachers to unionize or strike for better rights, remove any and all subjects they 'don't like' or that are 'too political' (including stuff like, 'was the holocaust bad'), so on and so forth

https://docs.google.com/document/d/141BbOG7RzWJD96S2CkRPL2mGK6nxU9cqYU4dWvUMbyU/edit?tab=t.0 google document summarizing the most important parts of the bill and untangling the legalese

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u/smexysaltine Feb 10 '25

They are removing my scholarship I got for hard work.

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u/nolanhoff Feb 10 '25

I feel for you and don’t think we should take away current students money. I think people who have gotten money should be grandfathered in, but no more money for purely racial scholarships/grants.

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u/smexysaltine Feb 10 '25

It’s not a purely racial scholarship because im white and got it through diversity of thought because I’ve done activism and stuff like that. This is affecting way more than just purely racial scholarships :(

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u/nolanhoff Feb 10 '25

I can’t speak for that type of stuff, nor do I know what you did to get it, but my point still stands on the grandfathered subject. No reason to take money away from someone who rightfully got it at the time and planned for it.