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Williams is one of six students disciplined for their actions on January 23. Four North House seniors shattered a window near the Black student and 45 minutes later, Williams' rooommate, Jack C. Patterson '88, made a phone call that contained a racial slur to the same Black student. Williams followed up with a second prank call, saying, "How's the breeze in there...
...disciplinary body also required Patterson and the students who broke the windowto withdraw for one year. Williams was placed on"probation vice severe"--the most serious form ofprobation--one week later...
...whether Jack C. Patterson '88, who was required to withdraw for a year by the Ad Board, is more racist than the average Harvard student...
...matter what Patterson's motives, it is time to say that no racist remark or incident can be overlooked or dismissed. When people accept casual racial slurs, they reinforce attitudes that have no place. Such intolerable attitudes can lead to more overt and destructive racism...
Bryn Mawr President Mary Patterson McPherson believes single-sex institutions play an important role by contributing to a pluralistic approach to education. She frets about the sameness of so many American colleges: "There aren't many institutions anymore that have a very clear image." Futter concurs, "We are dealing with an increasingly franchised commodity. This isn't hamburgers; this is education." Finally, educational leaders are far from convinced that the women's movement has erased the prejudices that gave rise to women's colleges in the first place. "Maybe there will come a day when women and men will...