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...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...
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...