Word: jeffriesism
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Alvin L. Bragg '95, president of the FBT, said the group chose the topic in the wake of controversy over last week's speech by City University of New York Professor Leonard Jeffries.
Linda L. Wei '92, president of the Asian Americans Association, says she was surprised by BSA's decision to invite Jeffries--who has been condemned as a racist, an anti-Semite and a homophobe.
"I think that any time a controversial speaker like Leonard Jeffries comes to speak there's a risk of fragmenting the community," said Nicholas C. Wienstock '91-'92, co-chair of Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism.
Eight student organizations banded together and assembled a crowd of approximately 450 to protest outside the Jeffries speech.
In fact, Held--who organized the rally against Jeffries--and BSA President Art A. Hall '93 began planning for an anti-Duke protest even before the Jeffries affair ended.