My name is Rosemarie Allicock and I am a fifth year senior at Delaware Valley University. I started my academic journey at DelVal in Fall of 2016, when I quickly realized that the school is nothing like what it advertises. The school preaches unity and inclusivity, and even holds kindness and respect for all people as one of its pillars, but also coddles racists. In my five years at DelVal I have witnessed numerous accounts of unchecked racism, but the thing that bothers me, and many other students the most, is the fact that the university allows students to display the confederate flag and other symbols of hate not only in their rooms, but sometimes also in their windows facing down on the campus. I am calling for DelVal to ban confederate flags from its campus and to take legitimate action against the hate on campus. The emails we receive every time a slur or a racial symbol/effigy is no longer enough, not that it ever was to begin with.
We the students are tired of the virtue signaling and complicate behavior of the university, it’s time to step up. It’s time to actually act like the inclusive university that you claim to be, instead of selling lies to prospective students.