Word: buffaloes
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...University of Pennsylvania has gone to the dogs. Or, perhaps more properly, the water buffalo...
...annoyed Jacobowitz implored, "Shut up, you water buffalo!" Other students yelled racial epithets at the young sorority sisters, but Jacobowitz was the only one who owned up to having said anything when University police stormed the building looking for racists and grabbing at straws...
Invoking the school's speech codes, the sorority members filed a charge of racial harassment against Jacobowitz, reasoning that "water buffalo" is a racial slur. Up until this point, both sides' idiotic behavior--the shouting and the charging of Jacobowitz--could be dismissed as overzealous love of study and complaint, respectively...
...subscription to Ranger Rick having long since lapsed, Read reasoned that the use of the term "water buffalo" was meant as a racial slur since a water buffalo is "a large black animal that lives in Africa." Pity for Read that water buffalo are found in Asia and not Africa...
Maybe Read had a premonition that the geographic distribution of water buffalo would not back up her wildly inaccurate flailings, for she offered Jacobowitz a deal: He could conduct a racial sensitivity session or he could face trial and clear his name--or get himself expelled...