Amherst Overenrolled

paying3tuitions
Mon, 21 May 2007 03:24:53 +0000

A student at Williams and her non-student boyfriend in his late 20’s posted pictures of Hitler on students’ doors, and the poster graphics were based upon a previous poster advertising the campus event for Holocaust Memorial Day. She did stuff like take the Star of David from the Holocaust poster and reshaped it into a marijuana leaf. But the main thing was that students woke up and found big pictures of Hitler on their own doors. Then a Jewish student group called a meeting, held in the town, but the campus administrators didn’t attend, so there was some criticism that they were silent. The girl maintained it was her free speech right. I’m not from Williams so I’m only reporting what I heard elsewhere. Sounded ugly, and something the college admin should have addressed. There was some identification of the boyfriend with racist organizations, and the girl remained angrily attached to her right to do this without any accountability to anyone else.