A formidable assemblage of groups representing black students at the University of Minnesota is requesting that crime alerts on campus avoid including race. CBS Minnesota reports: School officials at the University of Minnesota are working with black student and facility organizations after they wrote a letter to the school's president about the racial descriptions given in crime alerts. The letter, sent on Dec. 6, 2013, was issued by members of the African American and African Studies, Black Faculty and Staff Association, Black Graduate and Professional Student Association, Black Men's Forum, Black Student Union and Huntley House for African American Males. (snip) The organizations wrote that while campus safety is crucial, the profiling can be devastating for black male students. "[We] unanimously agree that campus safety should be of the UMPD's utmost importance; however, efforts to reduce crime should never be at the expense of our Black men, or any specific group of people...(Read Full Post)