PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A group of students and faculty at Providence College is asking the school to take steps to combat what it calls a pattern of racial profiling of minority students on campus and a hostile climate.
Members of the newly formed "Coalition Against Racism" say campus security regularly questions minority students about whether they belong on school grounds. They say that minority students are followed by security in places like the bookstore and have been called racial epithets by other students and that the N-word was written in a dorm bathroom last year.