Eden shouted out "water buffalo" to which the sorority sisters were offended by and called the campus police. He then explained that "water buffalo" is a Yiddish word for "a noisy, oafish person". ... The most absurd part of this incident is that the administration found Eden guilty even though they were not sure how the word "water buffalo" is racist. ... The City University of New York states "sexual harassment is not defined by intentions, but by impact on the subject". ...
According to the article written by Michael deCourcy Hinds, a reporter for the New York Times, she describes how a young man by the name of Eden Jacobowitz is being punished for calling a group of African American students "water buffalo ". In Jacobwitz's defense, he claimed that "water buffalo " was the English translation of the Hebrew word, behayma, which is defined as slob. ...