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Harvard Extension School student Jonathan Eliot Morgan '92 has become the subject of widespread national media attention since alleging this week that City University of New York (CUNY) professor Leonard Jeffries threatened his life...
...Morgan, a staff writer at The Harvard Crimson, said that the threat came during an interview for the What Is to Be Done?, The Crimson's weekly magazine. According to Morgan, Jeffries--who has been charged with making anti-semitic remarks in the past--demanded Morgan's tapes and issued the threat when he learned that many of The Crimson's top editors are Jewish...
...Morgan is Jewish, but said that Jeffries did not know his religious affiliation during the interview...
Earlier in that interview, Morgan has claimed, Jeffries called Henry Louis Gates, the chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, a "punk" and a "faggot." Jeffries confiscated the tapes containing those statements and threatened to kill Morgan if he used the quotes in his story, Morgan said...
EDITORIAL FINANCE: Eric A. Berk (Manager); Genevieve Christy (Deputy); Patricia Hermes, Esther Cedeno, Morgan Krug, Katherine Young (Domestic); Camille Sanabria, Carl Harmon, Sheila Sharney, Aston Wright (News Service); Linda D. Vartoogian, Wayne Chun, Edward Nana Osei-Bonsu (Pictures...