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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 Speaking of apologies, today brought a good one from Seattle's klassy kousin to the east,
Bellevue, where Bellevue Community College President Jean Floten apologized for the racially offensive math question
that appeared on one of her school's practice exams. According to the Seattle Times, the question in question read,
"Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of the roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with
a velocity of 20 feet per second." Students were then instructed to formulate how long it would take Condoleezza's
watermelon to hit the ground. According to President Floten, the question originally featured the name of the comedian
Gallagher, whose signature shtick was to smash watermelons; when the question was later rewritten, the name was
changed to Condoleezza. At an open-campus meeting today, President Floten expressed her mortification at "this
act of institutional racism" and promised to redouble school efforts to improve racial and cultural sensitivity on
campus. Props to President Floten, who faced up to this stinky pile o' shit with aplomb, and who shouldn't feel too
bad-we get Gallagher and Condoleezza Rice mixed up all the time.
This settles it. If you aren't reading The Stranger, you should be. I especially recommend reading the archives of the
'Party Crasher' feature. I have never seen such an awesome source of house-party theme inspiration. C'mon a Cosby
sweater party? Who the fuck wouldn't want to come to that?!
Bellevue, where Bellevue Community College President Jean Floten apologized for the racially offensive math question
that appeared on one of her school's practice exams. According to the Seattle Times, the question in question read,
"Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of the roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with
a velocity of 20 feet per second." Students were then instructed to formulate how long it would take Condoleezza's
watermelon to hit the ground. According to President Floten, the question originally featured the name of the comedian
Gallagher, whose signature shtick was to smash watermelons; when the question was later rewritten, the name was
changed to Condoleezza. At an open-campus meeting today, President Floten expressed her mortification at "this
act of institutional racism" and promised to redouble school efforts to improve racial and cultural sensitivity on
campus. Props to President Floten, who faced up to this stinky pile o' shit with aplomb, and who shouldn't feel too
bad-we get Gallagher and Condoleezza Rice mixed up all the time.
This settles it. If you aren't reading The Stranger, you should be. I especially recommend reading the archives of the
'Party Crasher' feature. I have never seen such an awesome source of house-party theme inspiration. C'mon a Cosby
sweater party? Who the fuck wouldn't want to come to that?!