In the wake of Friday’s series of deadly terror attacks in Paris, the student government at the University of Southern California is due to take up a resolution formally asking the administration to set aside admission spots and scholarship money for refugees from war-torn Syria.
“[T]he Syrian Civil War is in its fifth year, and there is no indication that a peaceful resolution to the conflict is forthcoming,” the resolution solemnly declares, according to Campus Reform. The declaration also laments the fact that “millions of Syrian scholars and students are among those displaced” by the complicated, multi-party civil war.
These scholars and students “require emergency assistance and refuge,” the Southern Cal student council resolution urges. School officials “should offer scholarships and spaces to Syrian students and scholars fleeing for their lives.”
USC’s “core values compel it to act in solidarity with Syrian students and scholars, in keeping with its commitment to develop ‘human beings and society as a whole through cultivation of the human mind and spirit,'” the resolution proclaims, according to Campus Reform. (RELATED: USC Silences ‘Pro-Life’ Club, But Celebrates BDSM SEX CLUB)
If successfully passed, the resolution will call on USC’s provost to detail “the specific spaces and financial assistance that it will provide to Syrian refugee students and scholars.”
Right now, the cost of tuition and fees alone at the fancypants school is about $47,000 each year. With room, board and basic expenses added, the figure easily grows to over $60,000.
Some members of the USC student government are not enthusiastic about the resolution.
“It’s just poor timing,” student senator Jacob Ellenhorn told Campus Reform. “It seemed almost insensitive to propose something like this in light of the news that one of the terrorists in Paris was a Syrian refugee.”
Ellenhorn also observed that tuition rates at USC inexorably increase each year.
The Paris terrorist to whom Ellenhorn refers is Ahmed Almuhamed. According to the Daily Mirror, a British newspaper, Almuhamed was among the refugees rescued off the coast of Greece when a refugee boat sank.
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