October 24, 2018
7pm
1787 Room, Campus Center
Reservations are required.
Call 802-468-1119 or visit the Box Office in the Fine Arts Center between 10 am - 4 pm Monday-Friday.
Reservations will not be accepted after 4pm on the day of the event.
In 2010, five student athletes from the Bronx, NY were accepted to attend a private Catholic school in Vermont. A school in desperate need of students and five teens in search of an opportunity to escape one of the worst crime areas in New York should have been a perfect match. Instead, the youths were met with resistance and conjecture that they had been recruited to prop up a failing basketball program. Feelings of entitlement and resentment, fueled by social media and helicopter parenting, grew to a xenophobic frenzy. “Divided by Diversity” tells the story of how these young men, along with their coaches, teammates and supporters, endured physical and verbal attacks as well as covert attempts to have them returned to New York. It also reveals many of the modern elements that are contributing to racial tension nationwide.
The film will be followed with a Q & A panel including the film's director, film participants and the president of the Rutland chapter of the NAACP.