The press coverage has been very hurtful: it's a bit like taking a blow in the stomach because of the way it's been conducted, certainly from the other side.
They are cold, hard and brutally hurtful statistics which have adversely affected our wheat farms," he said.
"Even so, contemporary black students encounter color-based discrimination in many subtle and debilitating forms, and they suffer the no-less hurtful slights and disparaging assumptions about their abilities that Du Bois endured," it said.
He rejected the commission's findings as 'extremely hurtful and unfair.'
While it may not be as effective as the annual conference-type evaluation, Jennings believes the general format is far less hurtful in a legal sense than if subjective, interpretive critieria are used.
Oppenheim was quoted at the time as condemning the act as "horrible" and "hurtful."
"I can't even find the word for it, it's so hurtful," said James Oppenheim, president of the student group.