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...students enrolled in the course are Afro-American Studies or Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) concentrators...
Even within this community, Jeffries has been extremely offensive. He has charged that DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, is a "faggot and a punk." This attitude is disgusting and has no reasonable place in an institution like Harvard...
...should reserve a majority of the class space--perhaps 60 percent--for Afro-Am and VES majors, while allowing for students with other interests and backgrounds to fill the rest of the slots. These students could be chosen by a random lottery or by a selection process requiring them to write a short essay about what they think they could learn from and add to the class...
...insists on restricting his entire class to Afro-Am majors and to VES majors, the University should ensure that the entire, diverse Harvard community gets the opportunity to hear what this prominent, controversial figure...
...implying, as an insensitive student did during the question-and-answer period on Friday, that Afro-Am majors are a homogeneous group that agree on every idea. But by addressing himself to one particular set of students, Lee seems to condone the very packaging of racial groups that leads people to think of others as Others...