At the University of Pennsylvania, an Orthodox Jewish freshman named Eden Jacobowitz was accused of racial harassment when he shouted "Shut up, you water buffalo" to a group of black women making a lot of noise late one night outside his dormitory. In his defense, Jacobowitz claimed that he had unconsciously translated a common Hebrew chastisement. Nonetheless, the Judicial Inquiry Office pursued the charges for the entire semester, until the university was barraged with negative publicity.

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