One of the funnier moments during my time there was spent in my labor law class. While I was reading the newspaper in the back of the class one day, a female student who was black began complaining about how a number of lesbian law students were always talking to her about how they understood her plight because they were oppressed too. This female student indicated to the professor, who was very liberal in her views and who was also gay, that this was ridiculous and that she didn't appreciate gay students trying to equate the oppression they were suffering with the oppression that blacks were sufferring. This caused a big uproar among the students in the class except for all of the white guys at the back of the class (please note that this was a required class) who kept their mouths firmly shut for the next 45 minutes. Anyway, once the bell had rung, the students who were interested in the issue of who was more oppressed kept right on arguing, while us less interested folk evacuated the area. BTW, I actually felt sorry for the professor during this brouhaha because it was clear that she didn't know how to handle the situation. Basically, the prof couldn't appear to support either side for fear that she might be mau-mau-ed by her fellow liberals for either not supporting the gays students (against the minority students) or the minority students (against the gay students).