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Bellevue Community College (BCC) has 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 the last seven months, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø has opposed BCC’s attempt to suspend Ratener for a week without pay. ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø’s efforts proved successful last week when BCC announced that it would not suspend Ratener.