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...Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., Associate Professor Jerome Long, director of the Afro-American Studies Center, got a letter addressed to all residents of Malcolm X House, a black student dormitory. "I have a dream," it read, of "wiping all g.d. niggers off the face of the earth...
Though officials have sharply tightened security on the campuses and the FBI is investigating the incidents at Williams, Wesleyan and Harvard for possible civil rights violations, there is no evidence of who is behind the racist campaign, whether isolated individuals or concerted groups. Despite the Ku Klux Klan references and implications, there is no proof that the Klan is involved...
What particularly bothers students and school officials is that the news of each incident has seemed to spawn others. In an open letter to the college community, Wesleyan President Colin Campbell said he believed the anonymous letter delivered there was one example of "resurgent racism in society at large." Chandler concurs: "Because of the current shift in the national mood, I'm assuming that some rather ugly impulses have been liberated." Says Archie Epps III, dean of undergraduates at Harvard and a black: "In such a climate, an individual who has harbored resentment is more likely to feel free...
Cornell President Frank Rhodes conducted four meetings with administrators, faculty and staff members, and concerned students, and praised "the way they are helping me deal with [the incidents]." At Wesleyan, a rally by 600 of the university's 2,600 students heard 20 speakers, including Campbell, the mayor of Middletown, ministers and several black undergraduates. Before the Harvard-Yale football game, 250 chanting students, black and white, marched to the stadium carrying antiracist placards...
Minority students are quick to point out that the events at Harvard must be viewed within a national context which, in the past few months, has included cross burnings at Williams and Purdue, threats similar to the Harvard ones at Wesleyan and Cornell and the recent acquittal of six Ku Klux Klansmen in Greensboro...