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Five resident assistants of Long Island University’s C.W. Post campus have been fired from their jobs after making (and posting) a culturally insensitive video. The video showed the five wearing black ski masks and pretending to speak a Middle Eastern language. They apparently meant to simulate Muslim hostage-takers (the hostage was a rubber duck, reportedly the C.W. Post mascot). The homemade video was posted to YouTube and Google, then taken down.

2/14/07  Read More from American 

Update From the Student Press Law Center: “A state court has issued a temporary restraining order preventing the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University from taking further action against five resident assistants who made a fake hostage video that the university claimed was offensive. The judge's ruling, issued Feb. 9, ordered that the university reinstate the students to their jobs and prevented the school from taking further punitive action until a Feb. 28 hearing.”

2/16/07  Read More from the SPLC