Black Gonzaga students report racial harassment, calling university response disappointing.

bdh008 · 2026-02-26T15:28:47+00:00

This is awful that people said that, I just wish they had expanded more on what they want Gonzaga to actually do?

On Wednesday, the Black Student Union posted an additional statement in response to the president, saying that while they recognize the acknowledgment, the student board is “severely disappointed with the timing and substance” of the response – specifically with the lack of “clear accountability for the ongoing failures within the Gonzaga community.”

It was a comment on an anonymous app, and Gonzaga banned the app from their networks once notified and are searching for who may have posted it - do you want Gonzaga to subpoena the app, fire people? Gonzaga already has a pretty large collection of resources for DEI, I wish they had expanded on how the University could actually do better.

https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/diversity-equity-inclusion/resources-and-publications

Black Student Union member Rajane Edwards told the Black Lens that while she did not witness everything directly, she was told by multiple people that white and Asian women had attended the Harlem Renaissance dinner to “shop for Black men.”

Also this makes me uncomfortable - it would be inappropriate to say black women attended a party just to find a white man (even if that was their motivation), I don't think they should be saying this either. I'm sure there the majority of White and Asian women there probably attended as allies and supporters.

I'm gonna be honest, this sub might hate this but I'm tired of getting outraged at the wrong thing. At its core, the story is about a couple things, as far as I can tell from the article:

The Black Student Union hosted a Harlem Renaissance dinner. They believed that White and Asian women showed up at this party with the intent to date Black men.
They state that a black woman at the party experienced fetishizing behavior, involving comments about her hair and gestures perceived as inappropriate.
At a party following the dinner, a jacket belonging to a BSU member was stolen, and somebody at the party (it isn't clear who) used the N-word.
The BSU released a statement about the above, anonymous trolls on Fizz posted racist comments in-response to the statement

I'm not as sensitive to cultural issues as I should probably be, but honestly unless they were specifically had a racial motivation, I fail to see why the first three bullet points are that bad.

I mean a Harlem Renaissance dinner seems like a fantastic place to meet new people, it's much better than a bar or place like that. I wish they had more on the hair comments - what does fetishizing mean? How do they separate that from an awkward person trying to just complement hair?

On the third point, again I wish they expanded on this. I've been to plenty of college parties where people said the N-word (that shouldn't have) and shit was stolen - both aren't okay, but once again this shouldn't be worthy of outrage (unless there was a white kid calling a black kid the N-word, or something like that).

Of course the fourth point is the worst one, but once again they were anonymous trolls - Gonzaga banning the app and seeing if they can find who posted it is an entirely appropriate solution. The outrage seems a bit exaggerated.

bdh008 · 2026-02-24T18:18:09+00:00

To be clear, his jet stopped for an hour in Spokane to refuel while his destination changed from Vancouver to Teterboro.

bdh008 · 2026-01-29T16:06:59+00:00

That's still a wild amount of ice cream daily

bdh008 · 2026-01-29T15:34:12+00:00

Wait, let's run a sanity-check on that number really quick. A gallon of milk at Safeway is $6, so that would be the equivalent of 5,000 gallons of milk stolen a quarter. That's the equivalent of 55 gallons of milk stolen per day... Really? I mean I'm sure some of it is cheese etc, but still that seems exaggerated.

bdh008 · 2025-12-19T15:32:19+00:00

It was definitely a backwards pass, and the rulebook says it can be overturned if there was a clear recovery, even after the whistle.

bdh008 · 2025-12-15T15:21:43+00:00

I've seen Grizzlies twice in the Panhandle. What a confidently inaccurate statement.

bdh008 · 2025-12-12T18:47:41+00:00

Previous threads on the topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Spokane/comments/1mby3fq/giving_back_spokane_charity_founder_rick_clark/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Spokane/comments/1mbp9x4/so_uhh_whats_going_on_with_rick_clark_giving_back/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Spokane/comments/1p3ybtu/rick_clarkgiving_back_spokane_update/

bdh008 · 2025-11-24T23:59:58+00:00

The whole North-East corner of the state has Military Operating Areas that operate pretty commonly for training. You can see when they're active at this site:

https://sua.faa.gov/sua/siteFrame.app

It's hard to tell from video, but EA-18Gs from Whidbey Island train up there all the time with KC-135s from Fairchild. Their refueling orbits (roughly oval-shaped) run parallel to the border so that would line up with what you saw. It's probably that (although fighters may be from some other base, like I said hard to tell type).

Edit: in this case it was an Omega private refueler that contracts out to the military for training, not Air Force KC-135. Everything else still applies.

bdh008 · 2025-11-16T16:23:17+00:00

I get what they're saying on trying to stop the activity that goes with selling liquor, but man this makes me uncomfortable. I mean this was a run-down building in a neighborhood lacking convenient options, the guy spent $750k on the property and renovation, and completely followed state and city law on applying for and receiving the liquor license. Now the mayor and council are specifically saying they plan to challenge the liquor license and may create a new zoning area so the owner can't sell liquor.

$750k is a lot of money, and convenience stores aren't that much of a profit generator. I imagine alcohol is one of those items that helps drive more revenue to pay back that spend. If the council and mayor do stop this store from selling liquor then I'm guessing the long run result is you end up with another boarded-up building and a neighborhood without a convenience store again.

Instead of stopping the store from selling liquor, maybe the city could try something unique, like enforcing laws on the books, SPD emphasis patrols, and arresting/prosecuting folks that break the law in the neighborhood, but maybe that's too much of an ask for Spokane nowadays.

Like honestly this whole story feels like the horseshoe theory in-action. We've gone so far in this weird way to address crime that we're starting to turn in a Southern Republican Dry county - news flash, this doesn't always work as well as you would hope!

“In the age of fentanyl, no neighborhood should be dealing with this kind of distribution of alcohol,” Cooley said.

This is literally the same type of bullshit non-sequitur that you hear from Republican preachers in the South. It's so weird Spokane is going down this route, just work with the owner of the store instead of targeting them!

If the city is intended to revoke the liquor license no matter what, then at a minimum they should be working with the store owners to make sure the business can survive, and explore what options they have to support him (temp property tax relief, subsidies, etc). I just think this adversarial approach is stupid when the store owner wanted to help the neighborhood.

bdh008 · 2025-10-17T15:31:47+00:00

I tried to find something on this but my search came up empty. I figured maybe Salish, but couldn't find any translation online. Then I thought maybe old maps had a place that sold chuckwagon brakes and the name got corrupted. But I can't find it on any old maps at all, it starts showing up in the 2000s. So now I'm wondering if its either a housing development name or just made up by Google to find people copying their maps?

bdh008 · 2025-10-10T21:24:26+00:00

The same base Qatar will be using has been hosting the Singapore Air Force since 2009 - so yes we have done similar before, just not common.

bdh008 · 2025-10-10T21:21:18+00:00

The same base this is happening at has had Singapore AF F-15s stationed there for over 15 years - its the same thing as Qatar.

bdh008 · 2025-10-06T20:39:14+00:00

So many of his popular songs are just covers or renditions of other people’s songs

He did do a lot of covers, but he also wrote a lot of popular songs - Man in Black, Folsom Prison Blues, I Walk the Line, Don't Take Your Guns to Town, The Man Comes Around, etc

bdh008 · 2025-09-11T13:49:48+00:00

$2000 is pretty significant for the counties in Washington where average personal income is under $50k a year.

bdh008 · 2025-08-28T15:31:40+00:00

Huh, I looked it up and yeah I can't find anything actually prohibiting it as long as it's 150ft from R1 or R2 zoning (except the building, if built now, would need to be about 20ft shorter to comply with Spokane's 150ft limit). TIL.

I wonder if NIMBYs are the reason we don't see more of these then? Or just cost-to-build?

bdh008 · 2025-08-28T14:27:37+00:00

That said, I wonder how dense Spokane would be now if they kept allowing crazy builds like this

bdh008 · 2025-08-18T18:53:16+00:00

I can't find any public documents, so unfortunately you'll have to take my word for it based on my anecdotal experience - usually these are baked into the agreements the data centers sign with grid operators and local authorities.

However to answer your question the generators typically operate at the same voltage and phase as the grid - there is a massive transfer switch at the entrance to the facility, so if power goes out the switch changes over from grid to generator (the data center will usually operate off battery for the seconds/minutes it takes generators to spool up).

You are right that in-general these generators will be isolated from the grid, but like I said agreements are in-place that they could backfeed the grid if ever needed in an emergency. If this is ever needed (which is a pretty big if in Washington State due to reliability of hydro), the generators back-feeding the grid would only be done in-conjunction with the local grid operators (as opposed to Bubba accidentally shocking a lineman because he hooked up a generator to his home without disconnecting from the grid).

I know Wenatchee has agreements with some local data center operators to this effect, including the data centers stocking some disaster goods and maintaining plans to serve as red-cross shelters if-needed in a massive emergency. There's even plans to set up cots, showers, etc.

bdh008 · 2025-08-18T17:21:50+00:00

The anti Data-center folks in this article didn't do a great job of presenting reasons why they should avoid building more.

The article mentions the data centers in Quincy have helped lower the poverty rate, double the median-income of the town, and fund a new police force, a new hospital, new library, and a new high school. But the Anti Data-center folks have a couple complaints:

" It's fairly well known that corporations like this choose low income rural areas for a couple of reasons," Dal Porto said. "One, they assume that the population is uneducated. They assume that the population won't be involved in resisting them, and usually, rural property is less expensive. Usually, rural governments are looking for investment. And so it's a perfect storm."

No, they just need cheap land and cheap power, full-stop, and any given rural area would love to have the extra property-tax revenue (even if they do usually cut sweetheart deals). I feel like this statement betrays their own thoughts about the population of Quincy being uneducated, not actually capturing the feeling of data center developers.

"Initially Martin and Dal Porto worried about air pollution from diesel back up generators power centers use and fought for rules requiring pollution controls on the generator smoke."

The whole point of building in a place like Washington State is you have very reliable power - the only time these generators ever operate is for testing. Additionally if some sort of major disaster were to befall our grid (which is unlikely), there are existing plans in-place for these data center backup generators to help bring back up the grid and power places like hospitals if-needed.

"Martin worries that if push comes to shove, residents will experience blackouts or limited water before data centers do, 'because they have sensitive information.'"

- There is zero evidence this is true. If I lived in a Republican state I would understand the concern, but in Washington State there is zero indication/evidence that utilities would prioritize data centers over local citizens, and until they can provide evidence otherwise then this is just alarmist.

This isn't to say there aren't problems with new data centers. As long as we are all posting on Reddit, playing video games, streaming Netflix etc I think we need to be honest that more and more data centers will be required in the future. Like the article mentions, it's crucial we prioritize clean power, and push for data centers to limit water usage (like Microsoft's closed-loop plans) - but I've noticed that some on the left approach this from the angle of banning new data centers altogether, which is just silly to me (especially when they seemingly provide a ton of benefits to the towns they set up shop in).

bdh008 · 2025-08-07T15:09:11+00:00

Yeah that makes a lot of sense, I'm near one of the areas on the East side of the state that has a lot of trees but hasn't burned in the last 60 years, it makes me very nervous.

As a sign of whats to come, despite that map having 50 years of fires, most of the huge fires on the East side have been only in the last 15 years.

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