The Hearing - Part 6

CASE HEARING RACISM

Chair:                           Professor Deltdrick Ross, Head of Electrical Engineering

Department

Committee Members:   Professor Floyd Bohrer, Architecture

                                    Professor Elena O’Brien, Civil Engineering

                                    Professor Moses Fogel, Mineral and Mining Engineering

Witnesses:                    Delbert Ballas, Electrical Engineering student

                                    Frank Covington Posey, Electrical Engineering student

Agnes Davis, Electrical Engineering student

                                    Carlo Erickson, Electrical Engineering student

                                    John Martin, Electrical Engineering student

                                    Yolanda Miller, Electrical Engineering student

                                    Angeline O’Connell, Electrical Engineering student

                                    Jennifer Wallace, Electrical Engineering student

Logan Wittels, Electrical Engineering student

Professor Phyllis Bligh, Electrical Engineering

Professor Richard Grant, Electrical Engineering

Victim:              Frieda Pianas, Electrical Engineering student

                                   

Accused:                      Jennifer Miller, Electrical Engineering student

                                    Dina Wise, Electrical Engineering student

While John Martin leaves, Professor Deltdrick Ross calls the next witness.

DR:                              Yolanda Miller, please.

Yolanda Miller looks a bit nervous.

DR:                              Ms. Miller, please tell us about the events three weeks ago.

Yolanda Miller (YM):   Well, first of all I want to say sorry. It was wrong to participate. I… I shouldn’t have laughed. At the moment I… I simply wanted to belong. I feel a bit like an outsider and thought, if I join and laugh with them, I might not be so alone anymore. The jokes were crude in my opinion… I still laughed, and I’m sorry about that.

DR (stern):                   What were the jokes about?

YM (picks at a scab on her left hand and her eyes brim with tears): I think swans are more beautiful than Hispanic women and a bar joke. I have forgotten the content of the bar joke. I’m really sorry. I’m not good at it at all.

DR:                              So you thought something is wrong with the jokes from the beginning?

YM (nods):                  Yes.

DR:                              Thank you for your explanation. You can leave.

 

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