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Show Racism Plagues No fewer than seven campuses (CPS) were disturbed by racial confrontations, cross burnings and charges of insensitivity in mid-Februar- Eastern Colleges Mid-Wester- n, of Pennsylvanias Human Relations Commissi on. Students on college campuses are coming from or all-bla- ck all-whi- te schools. Many of the problems have been in Anliots own state. At Cabrini College in Pennsylvania, officialsFeb. 11 discovered the word nigger" scrawled over a poster naming college staff member Tyrone Carr, who is of Caribbean descent. It was theeighthincidentof racism on the campus in 13 months. The colleges 1,200 students about 4 were ordered percent of whom are black to attend a campuswide meeting with college President Eileen Currie Feb. 15 to discuss the outbreak. At Villanova, also in Pennsylvania, students say the school unfairly treated a black student who tried to steal a piece of fruit out of a school dininghall by demanding y. Students at Bradley, Villanova and Slippery Rock universities, Cabrini and Vassar colleges, the University of Illinois and the New School for Social Research in New York all found themselves contending with some sort of racial problem. There was no common cause of the which disparate, unrelated incidents have erupted at scores of schools throughout school year the 1989-9but some observers blamed the racially segregated lives most students led before getting to 0 campus. Part of the problem is not enough education in the or college do of to what in terms about system feelings of conflict or tension, said Richard Anliot (pre-colleg- e) University of Illinois gathered to protest racist material on their campus, too, this time in The Daily Illini, the student paper. The group objected to several items recently printed in the paper, saying they were racist and perpetuate black identification," Villanova spokesperson Roune said. Eugene stereotypes. n Vassar students, angry over a racial A fight between black and white students Feb. 11 at Slippery Rock slur that New York Sen. Daniel Moynihan University in Pennsylvania and a cross allegedly made, ended their burning later that day has resulted in the occupation of a campus building after arrest of two student wrestlers, both of Moynihan returned a $1,000 lectureship whom were charged with ethnic grant and college officials agreed to discuss intimidation and harassment. other demands, including setting up a task In New York City, some students at force to deal with racial harassment. the New School for Social Research charged Bradley University freshman Matt administrators were racist for allowing a Hale faces campus disci plinaiy action after certain poster, which depicted a caricature he tried to recruit members for a white of a black man, to be displayed in a campus supremacist group on the Peoria, 111., exhibit. he present identification. The student refused, and local police arrested the student. Some students allege had he not been black he would not have been asked to give pre-daw- 35-ho- Students, professors and deans Feb. 14 discussed the poster, which was shown e last fall as part of a Shin collection shown at the school. Matsanuga It depicted a black man whose face was dominated by the whites of his eyes and his white lips. It was originally used in a 1983 advertising campaign for a Japanese soft 350-piec- Nude Olympics at Purdue Univ. Banned (CPS) While Purdue University authorized the arrest of students who d Nude participated in its Olympics" in January, students at the University of Pennsylvania are trying to establish an annual streak through the Philadelphia campuss quadrangle. About 20 males, wearing nothing but their socks and tennis shoes, shouted get naked" as they ran through Pennsylvanias now-banne- campus Feb. 12. Although this is the second consecutive year students have streaked through the quad, a university spokesman denied its become a Pennsylvania tradition. This was just a spontaneous thing done by a group of students," said spokesman Carl Maugeri. Penn has no rule against streaking. Purdue does. Hoping to end a circus . like atmosphere and the potential health hazards involvedin naked students dashing through the frigid January nights of Indiana, Purdue banned the annual Olympics" in 1985. Since then, however, a hearty band of students has maintained the tradition each year since the ban. Eight students were arrested for their participation in the nude race through the Purdue campus Jan. 26. Other schools are more relaxed about the issue. In 1988 the University of Texas at Austin officially recognized the student group NUDE which sought to promote a clothing-optiona- l lifestyle. The group, which sponsored trips to nude beaches, naked volleyball tournaments and hot tub parties, disbanded last spring because of lack of membership. Utah Poetry Series drink. The main aim is to protest racism, sexism and homophobia," said George Argyrous, an economics grad student. On Feb. 7 a group of students at the Maura Stanton Thursday, April 5 Nunemaker Place, 8:00 p.m. Heather McHugh Thursday, April 19 3rd floor Converse Hall, 8:00 p.m. Mary Jo Salter Thursday, May 3 Nunemaker Place, 8:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, University of Utah Creative Writing Program, The Kings English Bookstore and Westminster College Hale distributed fliers the second week in February urging student to join the American White Supremacist Party, sparking student protest against Hale and his followers. Anliot said such supremacist groups seem to be becoming more visible. The Ku Klux Klan, he noted, started making an appearance in Pennsylvania two years ago. 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