Word: racially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's episode is only one in a series of incidents that have increased racial tensions on campus over the last few years...
Daron S. Fitch, the treasurer of the Dartmouth Afro-American Society, said that the incident has created a mood of racial unrest on the campus. The Society released a statement on Monday which "expressed concern about the incident and the attitudes which letsomething happen and go unpunished," he said...
...scene was reminiscent of the '60s, but this time the sit-in was peaceful and the administration sympathetic. Upset by recent racial incidents, including an alleged attack by five white students on two blacks, nearly 200 minority students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst took over the school's Afro-American Center for 5 1/2 days and demanded greater efforts to fight campus racism. Last week, after 14 hours of negotiations with University Chancellor Joseph Duffey, the protest ended when Duffey agreed to many demands, including a new disciplinary procedure that would make involvement in & a racial episode cause...
...protest reflects a worrisome increase in racial incidents on U.S. campuses, including Columbia and the University of Michigan last year. At UMASS, tensions have run high since a 1986 black-white brawl among 1,500 students. Five months ago, an independent report criticized the university for a "historical denial" of the racial problems. Black students, who constitute 2.7% of the 26,400 student body, hailed the new agreement as a turning point...
...addition to airing some touchy intra-racial conflicts, the movie has a good deal of nasty, misogynistic business. Besides the several exaggerated catfights there's an especially disturbing scene where Jane is forced to have sex with Half-Pint, the runt of the Gamma pledges (played unremarkably by Lee himself) as part of his initiation. All the audience has in the way of explanation for this type of slanted portrayal (Lee even stoops to the tired fat-women-are-funny gag) is the film's surreal epilogue contained in the last sequence...