Administrators in the Commerce School have initiated an investigation into a racially offensive remark a Commerce employee allegedly made to an African-American student on Friday morning, Commerce Dean Carl Zeithaml said yesterday.
Third-year College student Jennifer Goldson accused the employee of making the remark after a confrontation in the Newcomb parking garage around 11 a.m. Friday, Zeithaml said. Goldson confirmed that she had put her turn signal on and was about to park her car when the employee parked in the space. Goldson then reportedly confronted the employee and told him that she felt his actions had been inconsiderate.
The other driver allegedly responded, "I'll think about that and your people on Martin Luther King day,"
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