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More than 40 black students walked out of a symposium on race sponsored by the conservative magazine Peninsula last night after one speaker called sexual liberation the primary cause of the breakdown of some Black families and used the word "Negro" 15 times...
...walkout took place six days after Peninsulamembers posted a flyer advertising the symposiumin Cabot and Mather Houses. The flyer, whichcontained the words "spade" and "Negro" and showeda Black woman performing a striptease for a whiteaudience, was condemned by the Black StudentsAssociation (BSA) and also by College officials,who issued a statement Tuesday calling the flyer"offensive, hurtful and insensitive...
...Jones was hissed when he referred to HowardUniversity as a "traditionally Negro university inWashington...
...also condemned the Peninsula forflyers" which advertised a lecture entitled "SpadeKicks: A Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as aParadigm of Sexual Liberation...
...pretty standard--it's not going to changethe hurt that Black students feel," said Nelson,who denounced the flyer's use of the terms "spade"and "Negro" as "hate speech...