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This page will describe in detail the controversies that have torn this campus. Please include references where possible.
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This page lists titles and brief descriptions of the controversies that have torn this campus. If an event will be discussed in a dedicated page, please make the heading here a link to that page.
  
 
==2005==
 
==2005==
  
[[Anchor housing]].  See the 'History' and 'Student Opinion' sections of that article.
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=== [[Anchor housing|Anchor Housing]] === 
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Debate over new system of residential life devised by the [[CUL]] reaches a crucial point, and all sectors of Williams from the administration, to the students, to the trustees enter the debate over the future of residential life at Williams.  Student opponents of the system organize themselves as [[Anchors Away]].  See the [[Anchor housing#History|History]] and [[Anchor housing#Student Opinion|Student Opinion]] sections of the main article.
  
 
==2004==
 
==2004==
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=== [[Art Department Racial Slur Incident]] ===
  
 
A comment using the term "nigger" made by [[studio art]] professor Aida Laleian to studio art professor Laylah Ali '90 at a department meeting in Spring 2004 was the spark for a number of events of campus-wide publicity and importance that, together, are probably rightly called a scandal. Read more about the [[Art Department Racial Slur Incident]].
 
A comment using the term "nigger" made by [[studio art]] professor Aida Laleian to studio art professor Laylah Ali '90 at a department meeting in Spring 2004 was the spark for a number of events of campus-wide publicity and importance that, together, are probably rightly called a scandal. Read more about the [[Art Department Racial Slur Incident]].

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This page lists titles and brief descriptions of the controversies that have torn this campus. If an event will be discussed in a dedicated page, please make the heading here a link to that page.

2005

Anchor Housing

Debate over new system of residential life devised by the CUL reaches a crucial point, and all sectors of Williams from the administration, to the students, to the trustees enter the debate over the future of residential life at Williams. Student opponents of the system organize themselves as Anchors Away. See the History and Student Opinion sections of the main article.

2004

Art Department Racial Slur Incident

A comment using the term "nigger" made by studio art professor Aida Laleian to studio art professor Laylah Ali '90 at a department meeting in Spring 2004 was the spark for a number of events of campus-wide publicity and importance that, together, are probably rightly called a scandal. Read more about the Art Department Racial Slur Incident.