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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buffaloed | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Stephanie P. Wexler, | Title: The Mystique Of The Game: Alumni Call It For Harvard | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Olivia F. Gentile, | Title: Free Speech, Codes Collide | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Murray A. Rabinowitz, | Title: Talk of Free Speech, Race Divides U. Penn | 11/5/1993 | See Source »

Campus-wide debate has focused on Part II since last January, when Penn sophomore Eden Jacobowitz was charged with racial harassment for calling black sorority members "water buffalo." Jacobowitz said he made the remarks late at night from a dormitory window because the sorority members were making too much noise...

Author: By Murray A. Rabinowitz, | Title: Talk of Free Speech, Race Divides U. Penn | 11/5/1993 | See Source »

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