Dr. Drown
Une protest draft one
Feb/11/2020
In the event that UNE athletes, express any type of political statement during game or any political activity that affected the reputation of University of New England. For instance, athletics “take a knee” during the game while wearing the UNE uniforms. What’s the best alternative to reduce the impact? The president of the institution should be caution on his/her responses, because the coming responses will tremendously affect the general public which include the domestic and international students, staff members, parents, local communities and potential global communities and most importantly the reputation that can bring future student. IF the senior Leadership decide to restrictedly regulate any form of political protest in the campus then citizens in this free nation may not like this decision therefor such action will only intensify the problem. IF political protest Is not regulated, then it will eventually diverse the students which will only bring more chaos to the campus and to the name of the institution. When stable learning environment has been disrupted, it will affect students overall adamic performance and experience. Students legal guardian, parents, their primarily concern are always the safety of their children. False to meet such simple expectation will fundamentally damage the reputation of your school. The primary goal is to prevent that from happening. That been said, failed to manage public relation properly in anyway will be devastated.
Sports and politics have long history of interviing with each other. With the platform they have, they are trying to bring the public tension to things that they believe that it’s not right. Just couple years ago, Colin Kaepernick take a bold move on achieving what he believes is right during the anthem before the football game, he took a knee which in other’s eyes who believe is the symbol of the country. Taking a knee during the nation anthem become a trend in football filed for players to activity protest of civil right movement of African American aim to police violence. Soon later many football players regardless their age and division fallowed this trend. Celebrities and professional athletes in other league also pretested in variety different form. It creates divide within the nation with two side that holds completely different believe. The ideology from one side is that it’s a common action that most individuals use to shows respect to meaningful rituals by standing up. Refuse to so, in this case, taking a knee during the national anthem means disrespect to the army and those who have fought to protecting it in the history. Furthermore, they believe that athletics should just focus on sports itself and leave the politic to politicians. In those voice, a typical example will be President Trump who speak up multiple times in public with aggressive words criticizing even insulting Colin Kaepernick on “taking a knee” during national anthem. NFL fans were also one of the group of people that got affected the most. A lot of fans even threaten to never watch NFL again. The other believe that citizen of united states have the right express the idea and believe. Therefore, they should not be criticized and punished for it. Most importantly a big portion among them believe that Colin’s intension was positive which are addressing police brutality against African American. When people being asked about what’s their opinion on this event. One of them mentioned that his father and brother in law have both served in the army and did not fell ant kind of disrespects from Colin other protesting athletes. In the other hand, he indicates that the president use this “blowout” to attract citizens attention in order to cover his political failure. After 2016 Colin Kaepernick has remain unemployed until this day.
The issue is oblivious. Despite protestor’s intension, His action forms a controversy intensive debate in the nation. It brings social disruption to the society and disunity to the people of the united of states. If similar situation appeases in UNE and not being managed will, then it will break the unity of this community. All of the potential issue that I mentioned previously will tremendously damage the reputation of this campus. I have to note that, university of new England are tuition driving institution. Without stable registration every year, it will cause a lot of issues to this institution. Therefore, we must establish a thoughtful alternative that make sure it won’t head to the worst direction. In order to do so I need to give you a little background about NFL. NFL its far more just a professional sports association. Indeed, it’s a product of this Americanism. It provides value to the society in the way that is similar to the myth. Myth in sociological terms are far more difference than your idea of myth. IT certainly provides more than just a fiction story to the people. A well-known sociologist and anthropologist believe that myth play critical role when it comes to create a stable society. He mentioned “It brings social cohesion by presenting and justifying the traditional social order.” The American football are far more than just a sport, and it’s certainly are myth of here that have its own unique American characteristics in it. It serves the society as therapy, church and a safe house where you can ignore all the troubles in your life for a second. Most importantly when you are watching NFL, it gives you a sense of unity, a sense that you are part of something big. However, most often of the time the passionate you have for the flag and sports narrows down your view. It blinds your view.
IF relative incident eventually being executed by your students. I recommend you promote and focus on the core value of the university. Encourage students not be afraid to speak, but also speak educated, well thought and evidence-based statement, not no-sense that are tempted by rage. Moreover, It is the best to not restrict any form of legal non-violent protest that are organized by student. More restriction will give energetic passionate student more reason to do so. Most importantly, we have to inform the society and student to let them know that this university do not take any political stands, so any form of protest that are happening inside campus are totally out of the student’s own intension, and their opinion do not represent this institution.
