Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...January, Williams' roommate and teammate, Jack Patterson, made a racist phone call to a Black attendant at the Currier House bells desk. Williams followed up Patterson's call with a non-racist but harrassing call...
...Currier House attendant had already been the victim of a physical attack: four students shattered the Currier House window. Patterson and Williams were not connected with this physical attack, but they had seen the results...
Last week, Patterson was required to withdraw from Harvard for a year So were the four students who shattered the window. Williams was put on disciplinary probation, a punishment that carried with it, for Williams, a terrible clause: no football...
Nevertheless, the incident shouldn't evoke self-righteous condemnation of Patterson. Passing judgement on him on the basis of this incident, no matter how reprehensible it was, is both premature and arrogant...
...Board has already judged Patterson's actions. We students should now take time to judge ourselves. Better to consider how many others of us at Harvard might have uttered such a remark casually or might have let it pass without comment. Who has never spoken or thought an ethnic slur? Consideration of how often each of us regards someone on the basis of race will do a lot more to improve this campus than making Patterson the focus of anger...