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...disgusted and outraged by the Peninsula's advertisement and sponsorship of an event entitled: "Spade Kicks: A Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation." The terms "spade" and "Negro" used to identify African-Americans have angered and offended the Black community. "Spade" is an epithet similar to "nigger" in its derogatory denotation of African-Americans. Likewise, while the term "Negro" was historically used to describe African-Americans until the 1960s, its usage without qualification is now considered unacceptable and offensive. Furthermore, the title's assertion of the "Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation" invokes...
What are the conditions that make this "symposium" and its publicity possible on a campus that ostensibly wishes to foster an environment free of racial harassment? In our opinion, it is the University's refusal to define and enforce restrictions on hate speech. Thus, groups like Peninsula are able to mask racism under the guise and protection of free speech. A lack of any policy regarding hate speech makes us wonder just what the limits of hate speech are (if any exists) and who must be offended in order for such limits to be enforced. We do not believe that...
...Dean of the College, L. Fred Jewett, has recommended that Peninsula change the flier advertising this event. This pathetic gesture, suggesting a mere cosmetic change, fails to address the real issue and is another example of the University's evasion of the matter of hate speech. Tamara D. Duckworth '91-'92 Mecca J. Nelson '92 Lisa-Marie Robinson...
Late last week, Peninsula hung posters around campus advertising a lecture we are sponsoring entitled, "Spade Kicks: A Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation...
...Peninsula regrets the confusion and offense caused among some members of the community by misinterpretation of the poster. We have removed the posters in question and replaced them with ones we believe more precisely convey the speakers' theses. Chris Vergonis '92 Council of Peninsula...