In CA, Classes are Cancelled in Response to Hate Crimes

March 13, 2004

Source: KRON News

http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1703846

On March 13, 2004 KRON News reported, "About 2,000 students and faculty at the Claremont colleges chanted "ignorance has got to go" Wednesday as they converged in a display of anger after a professor's car was spray-painted with racial slurs, the latest in a rash of hate incidents in this tranquil college community... At the mass nighttime rally, students wearing black shirts in a show of unity carried photos of the vandalized car and signs saying 'pro-diversity, anti-hate.' Professors canceled classes earlier in the day as the group of seven campuses sprouted with sit-ins, teach-ins and forums as hundreds of students, faculty and trustees discussed their bitterness and how best to respond... The colleges were galvanized after a Claremont McKenna professor's car was vandalized and covered in racist, anti-Semitic and sexist epithets on Tuesday night. The incident occurred while the professor, who was not identified, was speaking at a forum about the need for tolerance and racial harmony at the colleges."