Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Former BSA President Mecca J. Nelson '92 calledthe poster "not only intellectually irresponsiblebut blatantly racist... nothing less then hatespeech...
...Mecca J. Nelson '92, one of the studentswho brought the flyer to the attention of Collegeofficials, said she was not satisfied with thedeans' response...
Tamara Duckworth '91 and Mecca Nelson '92, the students who brought the flierto officials, said they will express theirreaction to the posters in a letter to The Crimsontoday...
Some house checkers identify with students on another level, by getting involved with their regular house residents' interests and activities. Roberta D. Janus, who checks in Kirkland House, knows her sports, thriving on the house's reputation as a mecca for jocks...
Certainly it was a financial event. Lee, who had never spent more than $14 million on a film, demanded $40 million in order to portray four distinct periods in Malcolm's life and to go on location for such crucial sequences as his pilgrimage to Mecca. When the studio refused, Lee trimmed his budget to $33 million. Sorry, said the studio, but $20 million was as high as it was willing to go. Lee made up some of the difference by selling the foreign rights for $8.5 million, then went ahead with shooting based on his $33 million projection...