Race, Scholarship, and Affirmative Action

The decade of the 1980s has seen a rise in racial incidents on America’s campuses. At Smith College, “NIGGERS, SPICS, AND CHINKS QUIT COMPLAINING OR get out” was painted on a campus building. In a UC Berkeley building, “nips go home” was scrawled on the wall. The University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus radio station featured ethnic jokes aimed at blacks. The Dartmouth Review, an independent conservative student newspaper, published an article satirizing black language titled, “Dis Sho’ Ain’t No Jive, Bro.” A leaflet opposing Holocaust studies and a swastika painted on a wall were found at Stanford University. At Philadelphia’s Temple University, a White Student’s Union was formed. Since 1986, the National Institute against Prejudice and Violence has documented racial incidents on 160 college campuses, including some of the nation’s most prestigious. In addition, more and more colleges are becoming the focal point of membership recruitment by the White Aryan Resistance, Skinheads, and the Ku Klux Klan.

Racial incidents have not been a one-sided coin. A black full professor at Dartmouth College frequently uses the term “honky” in his classroom in reference to whites. A black student at Vassar College hurled anti-Semitic insults at a Jewish student which included “dirty Jew,” “stupid Jews,” and “f Jew.” At the University of Pennsylvania campus, three black non-students crushed the skull of an Oriental student. On the campuses of Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania, black nonstudents have been alleged to systematically seek out white students to extort and rob.

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The decade of the 1980s has seen a rise in racial incidents on America’s campuses. At Smith College, “NIGGERS, SPICS, AND CHINKS QUIT COMPLAINING OR get out” was painted on a campus building. In a UC Berkeley building, “nips go home” was scrawled on the wall. The University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus radio station featured ethnic jokes aimed at blacks. The Dartmouth Review, an independent conservative student newspaper, published an article satirizing black language titled, “Dis Sho’ Ain’t No Jive, Bro.” A leaflet opposing Holocaust studies and a swastika painted on a wall were found at Stanford University. At Philadelphia’s Temple University, a White Student’s Union was formed. Since 1986, the National Institute against Prejudice and Violence has documented racial incidents on 160 college campuses, including some of the nation’s most prestigious. In addition, more and more colleges are becoming the focal point of membership recruitment by the White Aryan Resistance, Skinheads, and the Ku Klux Klan.

Racial incidents have not been a one-sided coin. A black full professor at Dartmouth College frequently uses the term “honky” in his classroom in reference to whites. A black student at Vassar College hurled anti-Semitic insults at a Jewish student which included “dirty Jew,” “stupid Jews,” and “f Jew.” At the University of Pennsylvania campus, three black non-students crushed the skull of an Oriental student. On the campuses of Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania, black nonstudents have been alleged to systematically seek out white students to extort and rob.