On December 12th, 2015 around 11:50pm, CUC Campus Safety received a report of a threat made to a Scripps student at a Harvey-Mudd College Christmas themed party. The student was wearing a Christmas sweater and a person came up to the student and said, “I can tell you are Jewish because of your nose and your hair…fucking kill all you people.” This is the the fourth threat directed towards students at the Claremont Colleges in the past 8 days. With each new threat I’m more and more frustrated that members like these exist in our community. I chose Pitzer and the Claremont University Consortium largely because it’s community was accepting of differences and diversity. There’s no excuse for threats like these. There’s a difference between free speech and hate speech. This is hate speech. I hope next semester our community will return back to being a safer place for students feeling targeted right now.
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