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Daron S. Fitch, the treasurer of the Dartmouth Afro-American Society, said that the incident has created a mood of racial unrest on the campus. The Society released a statement on Monday which "expressed concern about the incident and the attitudes which letsomething happen and go unpunished," he said...
Along with the statement, the Society issued aseries of demands to Dartmouth President James O.Freedman. The first, which was denied, called forthe suspension of the four students until today'shearing, under a Comittee on Standards rule whichstates that any students who "present a threat tothe Dartmouth community" can be given 24 hours toleave the campus...
Fitch said the Society also demanded that thecollege issue a statement on racism. In response,Freedman spoke at a rally in front of ParkhurstHall, Dartmouth's main administration building onMonday. According to Rick Adams, a collegespokesman, Freedman called the students actions"unnecessarily and inapropriately provocative."The president added that "Racism, sexism, andother forms of ignorance and disrespect have noplace at Dartmouth," the spokesman said...
Yasser Arafat's mainstream Palestinian guerrilla group, Fatah, said in a statement in Beirut that "the driver had an accident and the car crashed into a power pole about 30 minutes before the time set for the bomb to explode...
...professor who has been accused of making racially insensitive remarks during course lectures last semester said yesterday that he was still not received a formal statement of the charges against...