After two years, Dunn suspended the class, whereupon his students set up their own weekly workshop, which they eventually called Judson Dance Theatre.
A coalition of Jewish organizations had launched a campaign against the course, claiming it was "antisemitic" and "anti-Israel", and last week the elite school suspended the class, saying it "did not receive a sufficient degree of scrutiny".
He's in danger of being voted out of the school by his classmates, yet, when he is ultimately suspended, the class philosopher, Lucy, whom he had bullied, says, "I don't like the things he does, but it's boring when he's not here".
After a stream of negative news stories and editorials, the northern California school, considered the top public university in the US, announced that it was suspending the class because it "did not receive a sufficient degree of scrutiny to ensure that the syllabus met Berkeley's academic standards".
When Tucson Unified School District formally suspended the classes in January of 2011, administrators plucked seven titles -- almost all of them by Latino authors -- from classrooms, citing their involvement in litigation.
The ruling "contravenes the considered judgment of Congress that the president should have the unreviewable authority to suspend the admission of any class of aliens," the brief argues.
Within days, Joseph P. Frey, an associate commissioner with the State Education Department, said in an interview that the department would suspend the licensing effort, allow the classes to continue and instead lobby for legislation adding yoga to a list of activities that are exempt from regulation.
Japan suspended the Number 13 class while the conference was in progress before any ship was laid down and formally cancelled them on 19 November 1923.
Hall also became infamous as a disciplinarian, even suspending the entire senior class of 1901 for returning from Christmas vacation a day late.
With their teachers on holiday and classes suspended, the older students gather in what is known as the television room, bare except for the darkened set placed high on one wall.
And then over the weekend, Ilaria bravely announced that she has breast cancer and would have to suspend her classes for the time being.
