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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15CONFRONTING CAMPUS RACISM FROM DAY ONE
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- By SIDNEY URQUHART/Reported by Andrea Sachs
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- 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.
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