BrownUniversity recently coded information on student IDs which grants them access to certain facilities around campus after the buildings normally close. All undergraduates taking engineering classes are allowed access to Prince Lab, the instructional computer facility. Another facility now open to students is the BioMed building. Students who are taking courses in a specific department that requires after-hours work also have the new coding programmed on their cards. Now, students who don't have time during the day can work on their labs into the wee hours of the night.
Thirty-five students distributed fliers that made allegations of racist, sexist, and violent behavior against fraternities and individual students. The double-sided, one-page flier, was entitled "The Shit You Don't Hear About." The group that distributed the fliers also dumped manure on the lawns of the Alpha Chi Alpha and Beta Fraternities last week.
The flier included the text of an allegedly racist and sexist poem that was read aloud at the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity during the summer term. The poem, which was identified as the work of a Beta brother, describes another brother, who after being rejected by one woman, had sex with a Native-American woman. "I was right, there's my squaw," the leaflet states, "Off to the NAD house, following the trail of tears." The poem then goes on to quote the Native American woman saying, "Hey, wanna come back to the NAD house and eat all my lice," and "Come back, smoke a peace pipe, we'll do it again."
Jason Fanuele '96, former president of Beta, said that the poem does not represent the attitudes of the house and the poem's author was subsequently punished by Beta. In an electronic message, Fanuele wrote, "I am personally outraged at the cowardice displayed in distributing this leaflet. In no way does the leaflet facilitate the cultural harmony and racial Shangri-La that it insinuates Beta violated."
With signs proclaiming, "This peace is killing us," three students protested the Israeli peace process on the College Green. They handed out fliers to the people who stopped to read the signs and ask questions. Dave Crystal '99 organized the protest, which originally was intended to take place in response to Sunday's bombings in Israel. The group postponed their protest so that it would not interfere with Monday night's memorial vigil for the victims of the bombing. According to a statement released to the Daily Pennsylvanian, "We did not want to turn such a solemn moment into a political rally," Crystal said.
-Compiled by You Jung Park from The Brown Daily Herald, The Dartmouth, and The Daily Pennsylvanian.
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