Part one

Tony Kelsey COM-101
By the Beard of Education
As students walk into a dark, cramped room in the basement of Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall, the pleas of a young female begin to waft through the air. The lights flicker on as two young men scream "faggot!" into the face of a third.
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy” (James Madison, 4th President of the United States), this quote is one that has very high significance in this modern day era where governments are removing liberties in the pursuit of fighting a foreign enemy, an enemy that has become so terrifying that many have taken what was once a literal enemy and turned that image in to a generalization of a word “Terrorism”. This applies to the concept of Education in the way that our Educational system has become so oppressed with the pursuit of freedom that the United States that we are whole heartedly willing to surrender our liberties so that some overly scared group of people can feel safe knowing that everyone is now a suspect and no one is above the suspicion. The Educational aspect of this is that the oppressive nature of schooling has become rampant in the pursuit to stamp out a similar generalization “Stupidity”, this is due to the ‘No Child Left Behind Act’ in that now schools are making the same statements repeatedly in an attempt to stamp out this generalization in a blatant attempt in the pursuit of not teaching, but rather a pursuit of funding. This quest for funding forces students in to a oppressive position in that if they fail rather than have the teacher pile on extra work so that the student would understand the subject better the student would rather merely regurgitate answers and facts so that the teacher believes that that student is learning when in fact that student is merely become more and more informed on the ways to cheat the system.
This scenario is one of many that were displayed last night at the ninth annual Tunnel of Oppression, an event organized by Residence Life's elMundo Diversity Initiatives to show students examples of injustices in society.