Fascinating case

[Michael deHaven Newsom]

I still need to know more about Mormon - non-Morman relations in Utah, and in the
University of Utah.  The fact that one group is the majority is not necessarily
controlling.  The factor is relevant, but so are a lot of others that explore,
more fully, the relationships between various groups in that University.

"Vance R. Koven" wrote:

> At 12:14 PM 8/16/01 -0400, Michael deHaven Newsom wrote:
> >The answer to Rick's question, as is true with most of the questions about
> >this matter, turns on context.  For example, Rick's hypo "feels" different if
> >the drama student is attending a predominantly African-American school, like
> >the one in which I teach, rather than a predominantly white school with a
> >history of bad race relations. Furthermore, I would want to know a great deal
> >more about race relations, the choice of plays and the like, in the
> >particular drama department before I even attempted to answer Rick's
> >question.  The same reasoning applies, or at least I think it does, to cases
> >involving religious disputes, not ostensibly racial ones.
>
> Fair enough. What we do know about the Axson-Flynn case is that we had a
> Mormon student attending the University of Utah. This suggests to me that
> we may have a case of a theater department deliberately putting its thumb
> in the eye of a major portion of its public constituency. So which way does
> that cut?
>
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