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Monday, March 7. 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Racial incidents increase Campuses report protests and death threats
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AMHERST, Mass. — Twenty years after race riots tore up cities and an assassin killed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., a rise in campus racial incidents is shaking some of the nation's ivory towers.
"Even from our crude figures we can see a tremendous increase in the number of reports of racial incidents in schools," said Eva Sears of the University for Democratic Renewal, a Ku Klux Klan watchdog group in Atlanta.
"We're not talking about juvenile jokes here. We're talking about something that can have a horribly, horribly vicious outcome." she said.
The number of incidents logged by the center has jumped from 14 in 1985 to 56 last year, she said.
They range from racist jokes on a talk show at the University of Michigan last year to alleged beatings of black students by whites at the University of Massachusetts in 1986 and earlier this year. Last spring, a caricature of a black man with a bone through his nose was drawn on a
At the University of Pennsylvania last week, campus police maintained round-the-clock protection for a black activist who reportedly received death threats. A school fraternity was ordered to close for 18 months for sponsoring a strip show in which white students jeered black dancers.
University of Wisconsin fraternity lawn.
In Massachusetts, 40 members of minority groups at Hampshire College ended a 9-day takeover of a school building last week to protest racism. A similar takeover at the nearby University of Massachusetts ended last month after meetings with the school's chancellor.
And more than 300 Dartmouth students rallied in Hanover, N.H., last week to protest bigotry while police guarded the offices of a conservative weekly publication that launched stinging attacks on a black professor.
"It was just a matter of time before things began erupting," said Joseph E. Lowery, president of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta.
Black leaders say recent racial unrest is rooted in an apparent lack of civil rights progress in the last two decades.
"We've come to the 20-year anniversary of the riots of 1967 and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King and I think people are saying, 'Wait a minute,' things haven't improved for blacks," said Samuel L. Myers, president of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, which represents 117 predominantly black colleges.
Black leaders say the embers of racism have been ignited by attempts to recruit blacks and keep them in college.
But there are signs that many students are resisting racism.
More than 1,400 blacks and whites rallied at the University of Michigan last year to denounce racist acts on campus.
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School claims students harassed black prof
The hearings adjourned Saturday evening, and a second day of hearings was scheduled yesterday. But before the hearings even started, Review editor Chris Baldwin said he expected to be expelled.
The students confronted Cole in his classroom after publishing an article last month in the Review that was harshly critical of Cole's teaching abilities.
HANOVER, N.H. - Four staff members of a conservative student newspaper faced a Dartmouth College disciplinary board Saturday, charged with harassing a black professor in an incident that sparked charges of racism at the Ivy League school.
The students, part of the off-campus Dartmouth Review, faced possible expulsion for a confrontation last week with William Cole, a black music professor who sued the paper two years ago for libel, then dropped the case.
The school charged Baldwin of Hinsdale, III., photo editor John Quilhot of Fort Wayne, Ind., executive editor John Sutter of St. Louis, and contributor Sean Nolan of Lexington, Mass., with harassment, disorderly conduct and violation of the right to privacy.
Baldwin said the Review contacted Cole by telephone for his response before publishing the first article, and Cole responded with profanities. The Review published those remarks in its article.
Then the four staffers approached Cole after one of his classes.
"We wanted to establish clearly that we were not denying Professor Cole space in the paper," Baldwin said.
The students went to his room armed with tape recorders and cameras, which led to the charges of violation of privacy. Baldwin said that because the incident took place in a public classroom on campus, Cole couldn't have any reason expectation of privacy.
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