Word: dunne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When housemaster Charles Dunn cancelled the first showing of the porn flick, most assumed the fight was over. But the film society, still hoping recoup earlier financial losses, decided to screen the movie the next weekend...
...black mobs that roamed through such ghettos as Liberty City and Brownsville, wielding torches and firing shotguns and pistols, terrified not only the whites who had been accidentally caught in those neighborhoods but also the police who rushed into the area trying to restore order. Declared Marvin Dunn, a black psychologist at Florida International University: "I've never seen anything like it. In the 1960s people got hurt because they got in the way. But in this riot, people have set out to kill white people...
Quincy House Master Charles W. Dunn also shirked responsibility by failing to represent the significant, though lesser, number of House residents who did not want the film screened in the place where they live. He should have taken a stand against the showing and encouraged fuller discussion of the issues involve. For example, neither Dunn nor any of the cinema guild's members considered that direct violence to a woman occurred during the production of Deep Throat--that Linda Boreman Marciano was actually raped in the film...
...whom we deeply disagree, and we abhor the district's attorney's action. But the Quincy House Film Society should never have allowed the issue to become a legal one. Because controversy over the film had been flaring for more than two weeks, the society, Quincy House Master Charles Dunn and other College authorities had more then enough time to agree not to screen the film--solely on moral grounds. While "legal" action must never hinder First Amendment right, in this case proper moral judgment should have obviated the legal question...
...Dunn said after reading Epps's letter he had decided to leave it up to students...