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- <text id=91TT1918>
- <title>
- Aug. 26, 1991: Confronting Campus Racism
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 26, 1991 Science Under Siege
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- Confronting Campus Racism From Day One
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Sidney Urquhart/Reported by Andrea Sachs
- </p>
- <p> Not every college orientation week includes a jolting
- theatrical experience. But this summer CORNELL UNIVERSITY has
- sent letters to its 3,000 incoming freshmen urging them to
- attend campus performances of David Feldshuh's prizewinning 1989
- drama Miss Evers' Boys. The play is a searing account of the
- U.S. government's lethally misguided effort to study the
- degenerative effects of syphilis on a group of rural black men
- in Alabama. Opening the school year with the play "is an
- institutional statement that we would like all of the diverse
- people on our campus to understand," says Cornell law professor
- Larry Palmer.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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