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NATION, Page 43A Step Toward Civility
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.
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.