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SANDERS Theatre was packed with students of different ethnic and academic backgrounds at Lee's first lecture. But then Lee announced that he was looking forward to imparting his knowledge to "young Afro-American film-makers." And when asked which students would be admitted to his class, Lee answered, "First of all, this is for Afro-Am majors...
...class enrollment must be restricted for practical reasons, Afro-Am and VES majors should have priority. After all, these students have demonstrated an interest in the subject that Lee has come to teach. But we all have something to learn from Lee (whether or not we agree with him), and no doubt he could learn from the rest of us. But he doesn't seem to want to address the rest of us--the Jewish student of American history, the Korean student who concentrates in government, the Italian psychology major...
After months of refusing to take any real action for fear of rankling Jeffries supporters on campus, even the City University of New York said last week they would remove Jeffries from his bully pulpit as chair of the Afro-American Studies Department...
Many students attending the class--even some ofthe privileged VES and Afro-Am concentrators withchoice floor seats--said they were glad the firstlecture had been moved from modest-sized Emerson210...
...very upset," said Afro-Am concentratorLovita Tandy" 92. "Where were all these people ayear ago when [the University was] ready to letthe department die? They should have had it inEmerson...