By Sarah Schweitzer
Boston Globe

In September, a black female student discovered a racist comment scraped into the door of her dormitory room at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H. A week later, the faces of six black students were crossed out with a magic marker on a photograph hanging on a dormitory bulletin board at Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn.

Now, one week since at least 23 black students at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., received letters in the mail that students said read, "bang bang get out of here," the unsolved incidents are sparking painful soul-searching by administrators and students. They have reawakened worries about race relations on prep school campuses.

A half century after the nation's most prestigious preparatory schools undertook major recruitment and aid initiatives to transform their all-white student bodies, significant numbers of blacks, Latinos, and Asians attend today, and the schools trumpet the diversity of their student body. But some minority students say the cultures of the campuses have yet to catch up with the marketing.

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