ABSTRACT
Over the last several years, there have been episodes of racist graffiti, jokes, anonymous hate notes or brawls at 175 campuses, including top private colleges like Brown University, Smith College, and Colby College, as well as at public universities like Michigan and Wisconsin (Berger, 1989). The incidents have ranged from the racist hate notes received by four black women at Smith college, to racial jokes broadcast on the university radio station at the University of Michigan, to an attack on a black student at the University of Massachusetts. These incidents seem to reflect an increase in prejudice and racism on college campuses in the U.S. Prejudice and discrimination are not limited to college campuses, however; they are pervasive aspects of social existence. Antipathy between groups of all sorts, from collegiate fraternities to racial and religious groups, is commonplace.
