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ITHACA. N.Y.--U.S. Department of Justice officials met last week with about 80 minority students to discuss complaints of racial harassment raised by students in the past few months, the Cornell Daily Sun reported last week.
Requests from students in December prompted Justice Department Official Jon Johnson, a conciliation and mediation specialist, to start an investigation of race relations on campus. Johnson has visited Cornell five times since early February to talk with students, faculty and administrators.
Racial incidents on campus within the past few years have included the vandalization of the Africana Studies and Research, and the disruption of Ujamaz, a predominantly Black living center on Campus, by a series of bomb threats, a broken window, and the theft of its sign.
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