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An email sent by Nate Winstanley '04 on behalf of the [[Queer Student Union]] (QSU) to all-campus to publicize the fall 2003 [[Queer Bash]] drew vehemently disapproving emails from two first-year students, Jon Pritchard '07 and Brandon Lucien '07. When the text became public it was a spark for campus-wide discussions on homophobia and how insensitive speech should be handled at Williams.
==1958==
=== [[Coffin House Shooting]] ===
At 10:30 PM on a Saturday night in April 1958, a shotgun blast destroyed the window on the family home of Williams Sloane Coffin, the College Chaplain. Because Coffin was an outspoken opponent of fraternities, the police investigation focused on student members. Two students in Delta Kappa Epsilon, a sophomore and junior, eventually came forward and confessed. They were fined by the town and expelled by the College.