Word: jeffrieses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In February, eight campus groups greeted controversial speaker Leonard Jeffries with an indignant protest.
The problems first surfaced with the BSA's decision to invite Jeffries to speak on campus. The City University of New York professor has been accused of making anti-Italian, anti-Semitic and anti-gay comments in the past.
Former BSA President Art A. Hall '92 says the group invited Jeffries as part of a year-long celebration of black culture.
About 450 participated in the peaceful and subdued protest outside Sanders Theatre, where Jeffries addressed an audience of several hundred. Although BSA leaders emphasized the right of others to protest the event, the speech left some tension in its wake.
30 City University of New York professor Leonard Jeffries allegedly makes anti-Semitic statements and threatens the life of a Harvard extension school student, J. Eliot Morgan '92. Morgan, an editor of The Harvard Crimson, says the threat came during an interview for the What Is To Be Done?, The...