Fans Chant Anti-Semitic Remarks at Private School Ball Game

February 16, 2004

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/nyregion/07bias.html?ex=1077080400&en=3df960ebb2be46d7&ei=5070

On February 16, 2004 The New York Times reported, "Basketball fans from the Trinity School, one of New York City’s elite private schools, chanted anti-Semitic slurs at a player from the rival Dalton School at a recent game, taunting him with references to gefilte fish, yarmulkes and other Jewish foods and customs. The incident, at a game in the Dalton gymnasium on Friday last week, produced a storm of controversy, an investigation at Trinity, an apology to the Dalton parent who heard the offensive remarks and complained and intensified classroom discussion at both schools about diversity and tolerance. A spokesman for Trinity was unwilling to say whether or how the offending students would be disciplined. But details of the incident are not in dispute."