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Dec 16, 2006 8:00 pm US/Eastern
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Tufts Students Stage Campus Rally On Racism
BOSTON (CBS4) ―
There is still anger about a racially charged poem that appeared in a student-run magazine at Tufts University.
Saturday, students staged a rally, to call attention to racism on campus.
Last week, the "Primary Source" published a parody of a Christmas carol called "Come All Ye Black Folk."
The editor said the carol was supposed to be a "tongue-in-cheek" attack on affirmative action.
Written from the point of view of a Tufts admissions officer, the carol has lines like "boisterous yet desirable" and "no matter what your grades are F's, D's or G's give them privileged status".
"This senate does not have the luxury of remaining silent on matters that degrade any members of this campus because of their background, racial and otherwise," said Mitchell Robinson, the student senate president.
"Many people interpret this carol as having crossed the line from making fun of a harmful institution to making fun of the black race. This was not my intention," said Allison Hoover, the magazine's editor in chief.
While next semester's editor of Primary Source did apologize for the Christmas Carol, he also insisted his staff would not back down from tackling controversial issues like Affirmative Action head-on.
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