Lo '05 e-mails Levin to criticize threat's handling
Students receive forwarded message, which was intended to raise awareness about harassment, discrimination
BY BESS HINSON
Staff Reporter
Yale Daily News
Eleven months after several students entered the suite of Katherine Lo '05 and left a message threatening Muslims on her door, Lo sent an e-mail to Yale President Richard Levin last Friday demanding a more extensive administrative response to this and other alleged racist incidents.
In the e-mail, which Sunny Kim '06 sent to Yale undergraduates on Wednesday, Lo said Levin and other administrators did not respond appropriately to the intrusion -- which was in response to an American flag hung upside down from Lo's window to protest the ongoing war in Iraq -- and have failed to address other hate crimes on campus.
Kim said by forwarding the e-mail, she intended to raise awareness about the issues Lo discussed in the letter.
In her e-mail, Lo said Yale neglects to address harassment, discrimination and assaults committed by students on campus due to racism, sexism, homophobia and classism. Lo said Yale "simultaneously cultivates" these behaviors by neglecting to address them.
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