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Fri Oct 30, 2015, 08:26 PM Oct 2015

Louisville’s President Apologizes for Insensitivity, Students Demand Changes

October 30, 2015 by Mary Ellen McIntire

... Mr. Ramsey apologized for the incident and any pain it had caused students, faculty, and staff. At a Halloween party at the university-owned mansion on Wednesday, Mr. Ramsey and several other officials donned sombreros and mustaches and held maracas in a photograph. Mr. Ramsey also wore a multi-colored poncho in the photograph ...

Students stood outside the president’s office on Friday afternoon and chanted “Racist Ramsey has to go!” Mr. Ramsey, however, was in North Carolina with the university’s football team ...


http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/as-louisvilles-president-apologizes-for-insensitivity-students-demand-changes/106268

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