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Jennifer K. Sunami '02, for example, said she admired the panel's "statements against people's complicity" towards media misrepresentations of race.

However, others lamented that the panel failed to provide practical suggestions towards changing race representations in media.

"I was disappointed," said Mawuena M. Agbonyitor '04. "I thought they were going to discuss how we can go about changing the ways minorities are represented in the media."

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Some of the questions last night hit close to home. One student in the audience asked if Lee was making a statement about the University by making Pierre de la Croix, the creator of the minstrel show in Bamboozled, a Harvard alum.

"No. No way," Lee said.

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