Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North House senior today will ask the Administrative Board to reconsider its decision to require him to withdraw for one year as punishment for using a racial slur last winter in a phone call to a Black student working at the Currier House bell desk...
...College's chief disciplinary body last Tuesday also handed down the same punishment to four other students who shattered a window near the Black student that same night, less than an hour before that student received the phone call containing a racial slur. The events of that early January morning rocked the Harvard community, spurring a reassessment of racial attitudes on campus...
...deliberations last week the Ad Board decided that the four students involved in the window-breaking and Jack C. Patterson '88, who made the phone call with a racial slur, were not acting together. The Ad Board ruled that the window-breaking was not racially motivated...
...Board also will consider today the case of a sixth student, who was Patterson's roommate last winter, who made a second phone call to the Black student at the bell desk five minutes after the one with a racial slur. That second phone call did not contain a racial slur...
Williams said yesterday that he thought the punishments meted out to the students who broke the window and made the phone call containing a racial slur were "a little strict." Williams said he was not asked to testifybefore the Ad Board...