Ben Evans

UMaine #SApro

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

goodbye dad jokes, hello #HED598 class tweets (jk dad jokes may be included too)

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

#DearWhitePeople shares pictures of students in black face from colleges across the nation in the credits. #ohmyeyeopening #hed598

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

Professor Bodkin: "I read your entire fifteen-page unsolicited paper on why the Gremlins is actually about suburban white fear of black culture"

Sam: "The Gremlins are loud, talk in slang, are addicted to fried chicken and freak out when you get their hair wet" #hed598

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"the lynch mob is still here, it just rebranded itself" "as what?" "the republican party" #DearWhitePeople #hed598

[Alex Attanasio @alex_attanasio]

“Dear White People: Dating a black person just to piss off your parents is a form of racism.” #HED598

[Alex Attanasio @alex_attanasio]

“I preferred the family I had chosen to the one I had been given.” -Tara Westover, Educated

College has the power to create both canyons and bridges for first generation students.
#HED598

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

Dear #hed598 never try to use intersectionality in your paper, word will tell you that it doesn't exist... typical

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

To my fellow students of #hed598, do you think that the skin heads knew from the beginning that they wanted to use someone weak, like Remy to carry out a school shooting? #qotd

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

The film Higher Learning hits the feels of intersectionality, from race, to sexual orientation, to plain human rights. #hed598

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

@alex_attanasio I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT LIKE THIS!!!!

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Coaches make personal money if they put their students in Nike apparel.... #hed598

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

"I looked up the definition of indentured servant. It is exactly the same for student athlete. Food. Training. Work. and no pay." -@SchooledFilm #hed598

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

The cost of an education at UCLA = $31k a year. The football players get a "full ride" scholarship of $28k. Students literally don't have a way to make money to be able to buy groceries, due to NCAA regulations #hed598

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

"As a student athlete I am in a fishbowl and someone is always watching." Honestly everyone should live as though someone is always watching. #hed598

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

"the problem with tradition is you can't keep up with the present" -Stomp the Yard. And also real life... we always hear: "well that's how it has always been done" #hed598

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

"don't be so sensitive, it's just a little freshman hazing we all have to go through" -Stomp the Yard #hed598 yike

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

Florida guarantees any graduate of a community college to be admitted to a state school. Honestly, more states need to adopt this! #hed598

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

"I'm the least racist person in the world... When I was 6 my best friend was a black man" -Dean Pelham (and sadly a lot of other people in this world) #hed598

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

"we can't just have a white guy as our mascot" clearly they haven't stepped into a university library recently 😅 #hed598

[Ben Evans @EvansDiving]

"well there's just one of every kind of you" - Dean #hed598 YIKES. Diversity is not just "one of each kind"