If you're looking for a party, there's a zoo a mile from here,"[1] out of his window to a crowd of mostly black Delta Sigma Theta sorority sisters making noise outside his dorm.
He procured several expert witnesses who attested to this and others, such as Michael Meyers, President and Executive Director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, who gave testimonies that water buffalo was not a racial epithet against African Americans.
On April 23, several days before his hearing, the New York-based Jewish Daily Forward broke his story with the headline "Pennsylvania Preparing to Buffalo a Yeshiva Boy".
[4] The affair ended in May 1993 when the group of students agreed to drop charges, spokeswoman Ayanna Taylor saying that they were "disappointed by a judicial process which has failed us miserably".
[6] Vernon Jordan offered a dissenting viewpoint years later when he wrote "the participant in the white mob became a hero for the right wing, while the four black women remained faceless and the objects of national ridicule.