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Higher Education

The University of Maine

Series

1983

Racism

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Bot Expands Umaine Anti-Hazing Rules, Rich Garven Oct 1983

Bot Expands Umaine Anti-Hazing Rules, Rich Garven

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

One black female student sits among 200 white students in an Introduction to Anthropology class and the professor is speaking on physical characteristics of races. He singles her out of the class and asks if she has trouble sleeping because of her braided, Bo Derek-style hairdo. She says no, and he replies, "You must have a really soft pillow, but then, they don't have pillows in Africa."


Accused By Origin, Barney Berube Sep 1983

Accused By Origin, Barney Berube

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The subject of rape for the lead story in the Maine Campus makes for titillating talk and gossip. That seems universal. Why shouldn't the Maine Campus cash in on this human frailty? Other papers indulge in this kind of reportage gratuitously. That's only one of the curiously sad aspects of the Maine Campus indulgences.