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-- Theola Labb¿ and Allison Klein
Hate Crime Alleged at Gallaudet
D.C. police are investigating a possible hate crime at the high school on the Gallaudet University campus, after a black student was held against his will by a group of students who wrote "KKK" and drew swastikas on him, according to Chief Cathy L. Lanier.
Lanier said what apparently started as horseplay among students early Sunday in a dorm turned ugly when six white students and one black student, ages 15 to 19, ganged up on a black student at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf.
The residential and day high school has about 170 students from across the country.
No charges have been filed.
Gallaudet administrators emphasized that they are taking the incident seriously. A schoolwide assembly was held at the high school this week.
"I'm torn up about it," Provost Stephen Weiner said yesterday. "I can understand high school kids trying to play with each other -- but to use hate symbols . . .
"I'm a deaf person and I'm Jewish," he said. "As a person who has experienced discrimination . . . I don't want anyone to experience that."
-- Susan Kinzie
