Lawsuit Against Community College Over Racially Charged E-Mail Hits Roadblock

The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 21, 2010, 12:14 PM ET

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled unanimously on Thursday that Arizona's Maricopa County Community College District did not violate a group of Latino employees' right to be free of workplace harassment when it did nothing to reprimand or otherwise take action against a professor who sent racially incendiary e-mail to a campus distribution list. Walter Kehowski, a mathematics professor, sent e-mails criticizing Día de la Raza, which is celebrated by some Hispanics instead of Columbus Day, as "explicitly racist" and touting the "superiority of Western civilization."

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