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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.
The incident was first drawn to students' attention by an email from President [[Morton Owen Schapiro]], containing a preface announcing the beginning of what would be called the [[Diversity Initiative]]s, and in which he delivered a communication from then Acting Dean of Faculty, [[Bill Lenhart]]. Lenhart's text stated that a professor had
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