Jeffries takes on issues woman's case Racial troubles test professor in Tier visit Supreme Georgia for By GEORGE BASLER "It's ironic that members of the of her Staff Writer Jewish community felt compelled she said, to take a position that is antisexually Professor Leonard Jeffries Jr. democratic and pro-Nazi in that said Wednesday night that some its viciousness," he said. try for Jews have attacked him with when it His three-hour speech - which the Nazi-like viciousness. began two hours late because missed plane connections delayed of the Jeffries, who's come under fire him was in part a call for black called the for his comments about whites students to study their African and Jews, spoke to a capacity auruling dience of 1,150 at the Concert culture and themselves history. from Students the Euro- need 3A. Theater of the Anderson Center at to free Page pean-slanted views to which they the state University Center at See JEFFRIES/Page 5A Binghamton. for of dollars of school according Regan said Department school services. FIGHT on the basis same Hamburg RACISM officials findings, ( Color ERIC C. HEGEDUS PHOTO deal brothers with that keeps monopoly "stranglehold" brother million in They also within a business Eliot Spitzer "because they rights and taken away a from the were From prison, control of said. SUNY-Binghamton freshmen left, and Marc Brown, 19, join protesting the appearance of Jeffries draws By STEVEN N. LEVINE Staff Writer A rally Wednesday by state University Center at Binghamton students against City College of New. York Professor Leonard Jeffries Jr. turned into a show of Jewish solidarity. Roughly 200 students, mostly Jewish, criticized what they said was Jeffries' bias against Jews and homosexuals. Nearby, more than 800 people waited patiently to enter the Anderson Center Concert Theater. There were no problems and only a single representative of the radical New York City-based Jewish Defense Organization that swore to disrupt the talk showed up. Rally organizer Daniel Mar- ( Coo ERIC C. HEGEDUS PHOTO City College of New York Professor Leonard Jeffries Jr. addresses the media Wednesday night prior to his lecture in the Anderson Center at the state University Center at Binghamton. The three-hour speech drew a capacity crowd of about 1,150 spectators. Jeffries, who's been criticized for alleged anti-Semitism, spent much of his speech defending himself against those charges. Matthew S. Schechtman, 18, in Wednesday night's rally Professor Leonard Jeffries Jr. protests golis of the Jewish Student Union said he hoped the rally would fuel local opposition against anti-Semitism "veiled under the cloak of academia.' Undergraduate Julie Zarady said she was offended by what she saw as Jeffries' efforts to "denigrate the Jew to uplift the black race." Agbonoga Tokulah, a Nigerian undergraduate student, was also offended by Jeffries' claim that Jews funded the Af- rican slave trade. "For him to blame one group is repulsive," Tokulah said. "I know sure he doesn't speak on behalf of all Africans." Undergraduate Shulaika Lacruz said she wanted to hear for herself what Jeffries' "beliefs are.'
