Word: jeffriesism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Officials from the City University of New York (CUNY) conducted a three-hour interview with Jonathan Eliot Morgan '92 yesterday in response to Morgan's allegations that CUNY professor Leonard Jeffries threatened his life two weeks ago.
Morgan said he presented the officials with several new details pertaining to his October 18 meting with Jeffries, who was reappointed Monday as chair of CUNY African-American Studies Department. He also provided them with an answering machine tape and handwritten notes he said supported his allegations against the controversial...
Morgan said that after his meeting with Jeffries, he was asked to wait in the outer office at the CUNY Afro-American Studies Department while staff retrieved a press packet for him.
Morgan, a Crimson editor, has claimed that after Jeffries made disparaging remarks about several noted professors in an October 18 interview, he confiscated Morgan's tapes of the interview and threatened his life. Yesterday's meeting was part of CUNY's investigation into Morgan's charges.
Jeffries has denied that his meeting with Morgan was an interview, that taping occurred, or that a death threat was made.