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<text id=89TT1144>
<title>
May 01, 1989: American Notes:Wisconsin
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 01, 1989 Abortion
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 43
A Step Toward Civility
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<p> One of the goals of higher education is to instill an
appreciation of other cultures and races. But the outbreak of
racial antagonism that has plagued campuses from Dartmouth to
Berkeley over the past few years has jeopardized that
objective. Last month the Board of Regents at the University of
Wisconsin took a first step toward restoring some measure of
racial civility. If the state legislature approves the plan
adopted by the regents, students caught hurling racial epithets
in a threatening manner will be expelled from school.
</p>
<p> The regents were responding to a series of obnoxious acts
by white students. Last fall the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity staged
a mock slave auction, complete with some pledges in blackface.
More recently, white male students have trailed black female
students, shouting, "I've never tried a nigger before." Some
civil libertarians have complained, however, that the new rule
violates constitutional guarantees of free speech, no matter
how irresponsibly that right is exercised.
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</body></article>
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