A University Examines Underlying Problems After Racist Incidents

By PETER SCHMIDT

At Oregon State, controversies over a noose and a blackface image force candid conversations

"Racism is … "

A student group called Team Liberation wrote those words across the top of a sheet of easel-pad paper and hung it in Oregon State University's Memorial Union, to see what passers-by would jot down. The afternoon after it was taken down, about a dozen people gather around a table — at one of many diversity-related events held on campus these