Word: windowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last January, Jack C. Patterson '88--a starting safety on the team--made a racist phone call to a Black attendant at the Currier House bells desk. The student had already been the victim of an earlier physical attack: four students had shattered a Currier window with an orange...
Patterson called the student at the desk, saying, "Negro hit squad strikes again." Greg Williams '88, a defensive lineman, followed up Patterson's call with a non-racial but intimidating call of his own. The Ad Board found that the four people who shattered the window were unaware of the phone calls...
...possibly the most important of the issues to go before the council last year--reform of the disciplinary system--the council was captured by the administration. Rather than standing firm as the students' voice, the council leaders submitted to the deans and accepted window dressings in place of actual reforms. The council members didn't push to give students the minimal protection of a written code of rules...
During the silence that followed one of the committee members was permanently blinded as his eyes bulged so far from his sockets that they propelled at great velocity across the room and out an open window. The silence lasted until finally someone's bottom jaw hit the floor with a thud, and a thunderous laughter broke out in the meeting room...
Much of the Black community at Harvard followed the events regarding the Currier House incident. The four students who shattered the glass window were required to withdraw for one year, as was the student who made the first phone call containing a racial slur, while his roommate received disciplinary probation "vice severe" for placing the second call. The punishments meted out to the students who confessed to the three aspects of the incident were deemed fair enough...