I suppose Babson should be praised for addressing anti-Semitism on campus but aren’t they a little late to focus on something that happened in 1978?

Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.

College Implements Sensitivity Training Over 35-Year-Old Incident

Babson College apologized this week for anti-Semitic acts surrounding a soccer game with a rival campus that took place in 1978 – 35-years ago – and announced it will launch anti-bias training for its students and faculty starting this fall because of the infamous incident of long ago.

When asked if there were any recent acts of bias or racism on campus that would spur the need for sensitivity training, a spokesman for Babson College told The College Fix in an email that the new sensitivity training is tied to the episode nearly four decades ago and “in (a) desire to support our diverse campus community.”

With that, students and faculty will go through the training, called “A Campus of Difference” and led by the Anti-Defamation League, Babson spokesman Michael Chmura told The Fix, declining to say how much the Massachusetts-based private university will pay for the training program.

Anti-Semitic acts surrounding the 1978 soccer game between Babson College and Brandeis University, a nearby campus with a high Jewish-American enrollment at the time, included Babson players wearing swastikas, yelling racial slurs, and hanging a banner that said “Happy Holocaust,” the Boston Globe reported, adding:

The incidents were controversial at the time, and Babson College administrators and students took several steps to respond: the athletic director and soccer players issued apologies, the Babson president wrote a letter to the college community, and the soccer team was required to watch a movie about the Holocaust and to attend a series of other educational sessions.

But Babson President Len Schlesinger, who found out about the incident earlier this year, says those actions were not good enough.