Student leaders of Georgetown University of Washington apologized formally this weekend to New York University over the appearance of a Georgetown student dressed as a Nazi soldier during a recent basketball game here.
The apology was disclosed in a joint statement by student leaders of the two universities in which the Georgetown students called the incident one “innocent in origin but which had possibly offensive implications.” In accepting the apology New York University students declared they realized that “there was no malice aforethought, or anti-Semitism intended.”
The Georgetown students added that to guard against “unwonted defamation of any ethnic group” and to “project an understanding of the attitudes of the students at Georgetown,” they would “discourage” repetition “of an incident similar” to the one that brought sharp complaints from NYU students to heads of the two universities. The statement emerged from a meeting last week between representatives of the two schools.
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