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The president of North Dakota State University has offered an apology to the campus community and proposed a “plan of action” to help fight campus racism. President Dean Bresciani suffered the wrath of student activists who, in early December, had demanded more action against racist hate speech. Bresciani’s response to a racist Snapchat incident was called “completely unacceptable” and “horrible” by at least one student. Not helping Bresciani’s case with the activists — despite it being 100 percent correct — was his pointing out that the university is limited by the First Amendment as to what sanctions it can mete...

Edgewood College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college in the Dominican Catholic tradition in Madison, Wisconsin, Tony Chambers, VP for Student Development, sent out a public notice regarding what the administration judged to be an "act of cowardly hatred" on campus. The document was picked up and shared by talk show host Vicki McKenna on her Twitter feed, with a link to the document at Scribd. A short time later it was discovered that Scribd had deleted the document. It is presently available on Flikr but who knows for how long. This document is a perfect illustration of the...