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...Eden Jacobowitz, who garnered national attention in 1993 when he faced racial-harassment charges for yelling, "Shut up, you water buffalo," to a group of African American women outside his high-rise window, has settled his 1996 lawsuit against the University...
...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...
...Much hate-speech regulation seems designed not to solve a problem but to make a statement," notes Vincent Blasi, a law professor at Columbia. The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Jacobowitz, applauded the old code's demise but insisted that the best code is no code at all. Said Deborah Leavy, executive director of the Pennsylvania A.C.L.U.: "The university should stick to what it does best and educate...
...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...
...ensuing debate--which received attention in the national media, from The New York Times to Rush Limbaugh--has focused on the dilemma of fostering civility on campus without infringing on free speech. The sorority members dropped their complaint against Jacobowitz earlier this year...