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Queer Bash Email Incident

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major rewrite . . . i wish this kind of work would wait for a non-work night
The An email sent by Nate Winstanley '04 on behalf of the [[Queer Bash E-mail Student Union]] (QBEQSU) scandal of to all-campus to publicize the fall 2003 concerned a series of e[[Queer Bash]] drew vehemently disapproving emails from two [[first-mails between Nate Winstanley on one side and year]] students, Jon Pritchard '07 and Brandon Lucien '07 separately on . When Winstanley, feeling threatened by the other side. Although Pritchard emails he'd received, made them and their senders public by forwarding it to various [[listserver|listsevers]] and Lucien were members adinistration officials, the exchange became a subject of the same class widespread campus attention and debate, and of the football team, they seem to have acted independently. The ''Record'' [http://www.williamsrecordcause for a disciplinary investigation.com/wr/?sawContrib=yes&view=article&section=news&id=4820 reported]
<blockquote>:A series The email exchange transpired between October 10th and 14th 2003. Full ramifications of the event included prolonged debate within [[College Council]] , of ewhich Winstanley was a member; a widely publicized special QSU meeting to discuss the events, at which Pritchard and Lucien's [[Junior Advisor]]s were present; and the two first-mails sent years' decision to Queer Student Union (QSU) social coordinator Nate Winstanley ’04 rocked withdraw from the College for a year, perhaps part-induced by pressure from the queer community disciplinary investigation and incited heated discussions on campus last weekproceedings against them.
See also:Three e-mails were sent between Oct. 10 and 14 by two first-years, John Pritchard ’07 and Brandon Lucien ’07, in response to the all-campus e-mails Winstanley sent out to publicize the annual Queer Bash party on Oct. 11.
* [http:The first two e-mails, sent by Lucien, objected to receiving e-mails about queer events//www.williamsrecord. :The third e-mail, written by Pritchard, provoked Winstanley com/wr/?view=article&section=news&id=4820 "QSU reacts to forward all three abusive e-mails"], with the names of the writers still included, to the Dean’s Office, President Schapiro, the Committee on Diversity and Community and the Queer Student Union (QSU), College Council (CC) and Junior Advisor (JA) listservers by Tuesday afternoon. :The text of that message, which has since been cited in an all-campus e-mail sent out by CC included the following excerpt: “Why don’t u ''[sic] faggots keep to ur [sic] god damn selves. You people disgust me...i [sicRecord|The Record] almost threw up when i [sic] saw all that crap you people wrote on the sidewalks last week.” :President Schapiro and Dean Roseman both assured Winstanley at that time that the College would take appropriate action. </blockquote> It is not clear what actions'', if anyOctober 21, the College took. Both Lucien and Pritchard took time off from Williams and became members of the class of 2008. Pritchard has since left the College. It is not clear if he will return.2003
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