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Urging high standards for the hiring of faculty members, fried questioned the discretion of the City University of New York in tenuring controversial Afro American studies professor Leonard Jeffries. Jeffries spoke at Harvard earlier this month.
Fried said that Jeffries--who has been criticized for making statements perceived as racist, anti Semitic and anti-gay--was unqualified for this post, calling him "a totally deplorable person, morally deplorable."
Audience members whispered to each other and appeared visibly agitated in response to Fried's comments on Jeffries.
Later, during the question and answer period, Black Law Students Association member David Strickland criticized Fried's use of Jeffries as "an exemplar."
"[Jeffries] does not necessarily represent all Black candidates," said Strickland, one of the panelists.