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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (636381)	11/17/2011 7:36:09 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1583560

I'm not interested and the burden of proof is on you since you told the lie.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (636381)	11/17/2011 9:55:52 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583560

are all you hillbillies up there also racists. New Paltz is your neck of the woods home > news > local "Colored Only" Sign Posted Over NY College Drinking Fountain State University of New York at New Paltz investigating posting of racist signs. Thursday, Nov 17, 2011 \| Updated 9:38 AM EST View Comments (25) \| Email \| Print Getty Images / Joe Corrigan/Stringer SUNY New Paltz President Donald Christian has sent memos to students and faculty decrying the incidents and proposing a campus-wide forum on Nov. 30 to discuss the issue. Campus police at an upstate New York college say they're investigating the posting of racist signs in two buildings at the school. A sign reading "Colored only'' was found posted over a drinking fountain in the Humanities Building at the State University of New York at New Paltz, 65 miles south of Albany, reports The Times Herald-Record of Middletown. The sign was found Nov. 8. The newspaper reports that three other similar signs were found in a dormitory later that week. SUNY New Paltz President Donald Christian has sent memos to students and faculty decrying the incidents. He is also proposing a Nov. 30 forum to discuss the racist incidents. advertisement While there have been no arrests, campus police Chief David Dugatkin said Wednesday the investigation has turned up several potentially strong leads. Multimedia Weird News Photos LOOK PHOTOS Weird News Photos Top New York News Photos of 2011 LOOK PHOTOS Top New York News Photos of 2011 More Multimedia Associate Professor Major Coleman, of the Black Studies Department, sent a letter to the college president noting that SUNY New Paltz's undergraduate student body is just 5 percent black. "It is our hope that over the coming weeks and months your administration will use this tragic event to begin the process of what Martin Luther King Jr. called 'substantive equality,' which is so desperately needed on this campus," the professor wrote.