Tufts offical says racial parody was harassing, hostile, and an exercise of free speech
by Paula Wasley
August 27, 2007
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A conservative magazine at Tufts University that was found to have harassed black students has successfully appealed a university ruling that would have required it to publish author bylines on all of its articles, the
Associated Press reported.
The
byline requirement was imposed in May by a university judicial committee after the student-run magazine,
The Primary Source, printed an anonymous parody of a Christmas carol called “O Come All Ye Black Folk” that many deemed racist but that defenders said was a legitimate satire on the university’s affirmative-action policies.