Word: buffalo
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...Shut up, you water buffalo." Those words, shouted in January by Eden Jacobowitz, an Israeli-born freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, sparked one of the more bizarre incidents in the annals of political correctness. Jacobowitz was reacting to the noise being made by five black sorority sisters outside his dorm room. The women summoned the campus police. And though Jacobowitz, an Orthodox Jew, explained the epithet as a translation for the Hebrew behemah, slang for "fool" or "dummy," he was charged with racial harassment under Penn's hate-speech policy and threatened with suspension. The case became a symbol...
More and more, the courts are being prodded to legitimize a sea change in societal norms that legislators have refused to recognize. One day after the Steffan decision, a New York court ordered the state university's law school in Buffalo to halt campus interviews by military recruiters, because, said Judge Diane Lebedeff, "there is no dispute the military currently engages in sexual-orientation discrimination in its employment practices." With two such clear strikes against the Pentagon's practices, it is only a matter of time before the Supreme Court takes up the issue...
Marv Levy, a graduate of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and head coach of the Buffalo Bills, says there is no greater pleasure than taking on the Bulldogs and winning...
...debate resulted partly from a much-publicized incident last January in which a Penn sophomore, Eden Jacobowitz, was charged with racial harassment for calling a group of Black women "water buffalo...
...code is worth having," Peress said, "but one must remember that it all depends on how you enforce it. If enforced as in the water buffalo case, it's a total travesty...