Word: swastika
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Drivers on the Tri-State Tollway just southwest of Chicago were startled last week by a billboard plugging the Afro Country Club, "where only the ball is white." They were even more startled the next day, after overnight vandals wrote NIGER (sic) and K.K.K. and daubed a swastika on the sign. Similar racist graffiti were sprayed on road signs in the town of Justice, the racially mixed bedroom community of 11,500 where the billboard was located...
...violence is showing itself most ominously in scattered eruptions of neo- Nazism. Swastikas are turning up on the walls of Berlin and Cottbus and Leipzig, put there not by elderly lost-cause Nazis but by teenagers with crewcuts and black boots. The neo-Nazism is mostly an eastern manifestation, but it shows up in the west as well. In Bonn, the municipal symbol of a reformed and repentant Germany, a sidewalk last month blossomed with a childish scrawl: (swastika sign...
...involved in a symbolic free speech debate. Cabot House resident Timothy P. McCormack '91-'92 hung a Confederate flag in his dorm room window as a sign of support for Kerrigan's right to hang the flag, while Cabot House resident Jacinda T. Townsend '92 counteracted by hanging a swastika from her dorm room window, in an attempt to stretch University policy to such a limit that it would eventually ban such offensive symbols...
...LATE FEBRUARY, as the Gulf War was winding down, Bridget Kerrigan '91 hung a Confederate battle flag out her Kirkland House window. Cabot House resident Tim McCormack '91 followed suit with a Southern Cross of his own. An outraged Jacinda Townsend '92 responded by hanging a swastika with the words "Racism--No?" out her window...
...letter to the editors, Jacinda Town-send '92 writes: "While I may be sensitive [the reason she gives for taking down the swastika hanging in her window], there are many individuals who are not, and without a policy change we may not be able to "sensitize" the person who hangs the swastika next year, next month or tomorrow...