After Purdue University Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon made a racist remark during the school’s Dec. 10 graduation ceremony, calls for his removal have gained momentum, with at least two petitions circulating that urge Keon's resignation.
One petition, created by “A Concerned PNW student,” captured 1,690 signatures by Friday’s deadline and asked the campus “to look at what he said and deeply recognize what effect this will have on the diverse communities at Purdue Northwest.” A second, posted and co-signed Dec. 15 by a group of Asian academics across the country, said Keon’s apology for the remark doesn’t address their community’s concerns.pretending to speak a made-up language that sounded Chinese went viral on social media.
“I don’t think it was a mistake,” Lee said. “It wouldn’t have been OK for him to use an African-American dialect, would it? Or Native American? People don’t see us as oppressed, so we’re often targets of widespread ridicule. And we know this because of Trump, who repeatedly mocked Asians and created the coronavirus nicknames ‘China flu’ and ‘Kung flu.
Enrollment during the pandemic, meanwhile, still fell, but not to the previous degree, the dashboard indicates. As Dedelow sat down, Keon came back to the podium and said, “Well, all I can say is” and proceeded to speak in a made-up language that sounded as if he were trying to speak Chinese. He then said, “That’s sort of my Asian version of his …” trailing off before going back on-script.
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