A Washington State University assistant professor who used a vulgar racial term during a heated political dispute with Republican students was "immature" and "thoughtless," but his actions did not constitute discrimination, a new university report concludes.

John Streamas has also called WSU a "racist university" and contended that some say WSU should stand for "White Supremacist University," said the report from the Center for Human Rights.

The report was given to the parties involved in the dispute, and a copy was released Tuesday by Dan Ryder, the student who complained, saying he had been insulted.

The report directed some blame for the incident toward WSU's College Republicans, who on Nov. 2 erected a 24-foot-long stretch of chain-link fence on campus as a show of support for the Bush administration's plan to build a fence on the border with Mexico.

The fence drew a crowd of protesters who engaged in heated arguments with College Republicans.

During the dispute, Ryder said Streamas, an assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies, called him a "white (solid waste)-bag."

College Republicans demanded that Streamas be fired. University President V. Lane Rawlins said Streamas would be reprimanded, but not fired.

This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page D5.