Word: jeffriesism
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More than a decade later, The Crimson againfound itself embroiled in a controversy centeringon race. Crimson reporter J. Elliot Morgan's lifewas allegedly threatened during an interview withLeonard Jeffries, an Afro-centrist professor atthe City University of New York.
As a result, black studies fell into a long decline on many campuses, which was made worse by the buffoonery and outright nonsense of some of the field's best-known advocates. At City College, part of the City University of New York, for example, former black-studies chairman Leonard...
Or, in 1991, you would have found the New York Civil Liberties Union defending crackpot Afrocentrist professor Leonard Jeffries of New York's City University. Thanks to such support and the fact that CUNY is a public-sector employer, Jeffries still commands a lectern, from which he is free to...
The Dean of Harvard Medical School established the faculty committee last year, and it has met 30 times, with lawyers and with Dr. Mack. Its mission is presumably to determine whether Dr. Mack's research and clinical activities satisfy certain unspecified academic criteria. But, at bottom, the committee will necessarily...
Bragg's year provided a stark contrast both tothe protesters of 1969 and to the presidentialterms before and after his. His predecessor,Zaheer R. Ali '94, helped bring controversialspeakers like Jeffries to campus and sponsoredanti-administration broadsides with titles like,"On the Harvard Plantation" and "The PeculiarInstitution."