Bellevue Community College: Professor Punished for "Racially Insensitive" Exam Question
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Bellevue College
Case Overview
FIRE Victory closed
Bellevue Community College (BCC) dropped its proposed punishment of Professor Peter Ratener, who composed a math exam problem that featured a woman named Condoleezza dropping a watermelon off the roof of a federal building. Ratener wrote the problem in 2004, but came under intense scrutiny after the exam question was made public in March, 2006. For seven months, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø opposed BCC's attempt to suspend Ratener for a week without pay before BCC finally announced that it would not suspend Ratener.