"I'm definitely surprised by (the theme)," said Melvin Hines, a black sophomore from Albany. "I thought that after all this time things would have changed. People don't see it actually offends other people." Hines also said a bar like General Beauregard's does more to separate the University, and in the long run, the state as a whole.
He probably said this in the confines of the Black Student Union while planning the separate black graduation ceremony for this year.
8 posted on 09/04/2003 5:32:10 AM PDT by clockwork