Nina Kim says she felt the report unfairly “points a lot of the blame back at me rather than really looking at the larger issues that occur on the campus.”
But she adds her main issue is with WSU, rather than the two students or the task force report. WSU could have handled the situation more fairly, she says.
Marc Brenman, executive director of the state Human Rights Commission, says the task force didn’t pass judgment, but simply noted facts and made recommendations.
“We went out of our way to quote her actual language and we also constructed a chronology of events,” Brenman says.
“Some feedback we’ve gotten from other people in the field is that this report was done well and was objective,” he says.
Shari Song, president of the Korean American Voters Alliance, says the report didn’t interview all those involved and didn’t come up with concrete resolutions.
Nadine Shiroma, chairwoman of the Eastside Asian Pacific Islanders, said in a statement that her organization supported the rights commission task force’s recommendations, such as diversity training in freshman orientation. But the organization expressed concern that not everyone involved in the incident was interviewed.
— Associated Press
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