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...letter, co-signed by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Assistant Dean for Race Relations and Minority Affairs Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, acknowledged the magazine's right to free speech, but called the language in the Peninsula poster "offensive, hurtful, and insensitive to the feelings of Black students...
Peninsula magazine officials voluntarily removed the flyers after a face-to-face meeting with the deans last Friday--an action which the deans' letter called "a first and important step in lowering the level of anger and tension caused by the original poster...
...complaints from students about the poster, which we found offensive," said Epps, adding that these complaints prompted the deans' meeting with Peninsula...
...magazine's executive council said yesterday that the flyer, which also showed a picture of a Black woman performing a striptease for a white audience, was not racist when put in the proper context. "The deans' letter didn't really make it clear that the language used in the poster was offensive when taken out of context," said Senior Council Member Chris G. Vergonis...
...poster was actually criticizing white liberal stereotypes of Black people in the 1960s...