Students at the University of Oregon complained about the filing system that was used for the university's extensive slide collection. For many years, labels on slides having to do with Japan have been abbreviated with the three-letter prefix JAP, a slur upon the Japanese and more recently, upon affluent young Jewish women. However, the prefix was in no way out of the ordinary—slides having to do with Mexico are similarly labeled MEX.

University librarian George Shipman agreed to relabel all 25,000 slides in question JPN, a costly task that could take years. Writing in the student newspaper, the Oregon Daily Emerald, Shipman said that "the university library serves people of all cultures and viewpoints, and the slide collection is an important campus resource supporting multicultural education. The library is happy to make this change in the spirit of diversity, sensitivity, and respect."

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