This article contains explicit and potentially offensive terms that are essential to reporting on this situation. Last month, a prisoner serving time at a federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Penn., was listening to a local radio broadcast when the speakers spat out a string of racist phrases. “Niggers,” one of the voices said. “Black people should be dead,” said another. A third voice said, “Lynch them.” The following week, the prisoner told a local prisoner advocacy group about what he heard, and the group contacted the station: WVBU, the student radio station at Bucknell University. On Monday, the three students featured in the broadcast -- which was called “Happy Times" -- were expelled. “It is clear to me that this is not an isolated incident,” John Bravman, Bucknell’s president, said in an email to students this week. “Racism exists on campuses across the country and, in fact, throughout society. We need to look no further than recent news headlines to see that.”

April 1, 2015 ・ From Inside Higher Ed