Thursday, February 7, 2008

From HMC Vice President and Dean of Students, Jeanne Noda

Does anyone know if anybody was punished for this?

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Dear Members of the CMC Community,

Per intercampus agreement, I am forwarding this message from Harvey Mudd College’s Vice President and Dean of Students, Jeanne Noda.

Sincerely,

Jeff Huang

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Good afternoon.
This morning, the following writing was viewed on the white board of an HMC dorm room - "Hillary is a foxy lesbian". It seems that the student residents wrote this message as part of a joke, without thinking about the impact it might have on others. It refers to a prominent public figure.

The message has been erased. Campus Safety has been notified. But those who might be concerned about this incident are encouraged to stop by and speak with us in the Dean of Students Office, the Office of Institutional Diversity, or with a member of the HMC Multicultural Ally Program (see http://www.hmc.edu/about/administrativeoffices/institutionaldiversity1/map1/allynames.html).

Some of the other resources include the Counseling Service, the Office of Black Student Affairs, Chicano Latino Student Affairs and the Queer Resource Center.
Jeanne Noda
HMC Dean of Students

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mad props for being on top of the news. You wrote this story less than 2 minutes after the e-mail was sent.

hmcwatcher said...

Ditto

hmclibertarian said...

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ConfusedMinority said...

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Charles Johnson said...

Confused,

You may very well be right. But I am sticking with it. Conservatism and libertarianism is often allied.