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At the University of Pennsylvania, a student was charged with racial harassment words after shouting “water buffalo” at a group of African American sorority women. Mr. Jacobwitzs claims that it was never his intention for his words to be interpreted as racial harassment words. “… I finally shouted. Shut up, you water buffalo… Then I heard one of them say they were looking for a party and I said, If you’re looking for a party, there’s a zoo a mile from here...” Jacobwitzs who was trying to write an English paper found that his hall was very noisy and he could not possibly concentrate with all the ruckus the sorority women were doing. As furious as he was Jacobwitzs shouted the first things that came to his mind. This led to a problem because as educated as he is he should know to choose his words wisely before saying it out loud. Mr. Jacobwitzs lost the case with the result of him being placed on dormitory probation and to apologize to the women has offended. UC Riverside was also involved on an incident regarding a T-shirt that Phi Kappa Sigma were wearing. …show more content…
This T-shirt had an image showing “caricature of two Mexicans on a beach, one holding a beer bottle.” The fraternity were fighting for their defense for they believe it violated the 1st amendment. The quote that appears on the shirt “it doesn’t matter where you come from as long as you know where you are going” is a quote from a reggae singer Bob Marley and has no bad message. Phi Kappa Sigma believes that they shouldn’t be punished for a quote that illustrates strength which happens to be one of their mottos. As the result of this case the fraternity was force to clean up at a Hispanic are and as fort the administrators they had to attend classes related to the 1st Amendment. Caltech also faced an issued that most of us in present day can possibly relate to and that’s sexual harassment through email. In this article Hu claims that he wasn’t the one that send that email to his ex girlfriend Wen. According to the article, Hu states that his friend had his password and that he sends it to Wu. Its impossible to know who send the email because it can be easily forged and very hard to prove who send that email. This may be true but in the article they also mention that maybe Hu could have forged his own email and send it from a different computer to make himself look like the victim. Hu was not punished, but he was expelled from Caltech. On Wednesday 28, 2015 a terrible incident occurred at the University of Yale. What started out as an email suggesting the students what not to wear for a Halloween party, slowly escalated to a bigger problem that we still face nowadays and that's racism. Nicholas Christakis send an email to the students regarding the costumes that could possibly threatens the community by disrespecting, alienating or ridicule the population base on race, nationality, religious belief or gender expression. The main event that started everything wasn’t the email that simply contain what not to wear for a Halloween party, but the fact that a group of fraternity girls held an “only white” girl party and turned away black women at a party that was held

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