Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the Black community at Harvard followed the events regarding the Currier House incident. The four students who shattered the glass window were required to withdraw for one year, as was the student who made the first phone call containing a racial slur, while his roommate received disciplinary probation "vice severe" for placing the second call. The punishments meted out to the students who confessed to the three aspects of the incident were deemed fair enough...
...discuss race relations at Harvard and this year the College created the new post of dean for minority relations. And two weeks ago the Administrative Board required a student to withdraw for making a prank phone call to a Black student which the disciplinary body deemed a racial slur...
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...
...impossible to know what was going through his mind when he made a racial slur in a prank call to a Black student at the Currier House bells' desk last January 23. Was he moved by malice or by drink...
...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...