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Bowdoin update: On Facebook, school flaunted photos of alumni, students in school-provided sombreros

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/03/04/bo...

An interesting difference between these is that last year's school administration sponsored sombrero event was organized by american faculty members and was considered fine by the same faculty; whereas the "offensive" sombrero event was organized by an actual latin american student and was considered by faculty members to be an offensive stereotyping event worthy of sanctions.

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