CHARACTER LIST

Minor Characters (Continued)

Minor Characters - M.I.T.

Thomas Washington
A black graduate student at MIT who works in the MITES program.

Jenica Dover
An MIT MITES student from Newton, Massachusetts.

Isa Williams
An MIT MITES student from Atlanta, Georgia.

Micah Mitchell
An MIT MITES student from Baltimore, Maryland.

Mark McIntosh
An MIT MITES student from Miami, Florida.

Belinda McIntosh
An MIT MITES student from Miami Florida, and the brother of Mark.

Kelly Armendariz
An MIT MITES student from Carlsbad, New Mexico, who is a piano prodigy and math whiz.

Andrew Parker
An MIT MITES student from Hawaii who refuses to tutor Cedric in Physics.

Joseph Leverich
The Physics instructor for the MIT MITES program.

Unnamed Caucasian student
An MIT MITES student from Oklahoma who is 1/128 Potawatomi Indian and the only white student in the program.

Susie
The assistant to Bill Ramsey, she comes from West Africa.

Arryn
An MIT MITES student who helps Cedric celebrate his birthday.

Unnamed black DJ
Impressed by Cedric's knowledge of music during an MIT MITES cruise party.

Minor Characters - Brown

President Vartan Gregorian
President of Brown.

Phillip Arden
A Brown freshman, the son of a millionaire British industrialist.

Evan Horowitz
A Brown freshman from Stamford, Connecticut with an SAT score of 1430.

Sonya Garza
A Brown freshman from Sanger California, with an SAT score of 970.

Unnamed second-semester Spanish professor
Briefly advises Cedric about her class.

Professor Jonathan Lubin
Teaches Math 10, a third-semester calculus class.

Professor Robert Pelcovits
Cedric's academic adviser.

Rabbi Alan Flam
The university chaplain who facilitates diversity meetings for dorm units.

Vida Garcia
A Hispanic third-year resident counselor who assists in Flam's diversity meetings.

Unnamed Koran American student
Identifies herself as a tennis player.

Unnamed exchange student from Singapore
Does not relate to the idea of cultural identity.

Ira Volker
A Brown freshman from Los Angeles with political ambitions.

John Frank
A Brown freshman and son of a Manhattan psychoanalyst.

Kim Sherman
A Brown freshmen who attends the same diversity meeting as Cedric.

Registrar office clerk
Gives Cedric his permanent student ID card after he lost his temporary card.

Zeina Mobassaleh
Arab American Brown student from Potomac, Maryland, who Cedric likens to Janet from Three's Company.

Corry Mascitelli
A Brown freshman from Southbury, Connecticut and Zeina's roommate, who Cedric likens to Marcia Brady.

Billy Mosberg
A Brown student from Baltimore, Maryland, who Cedric likens to George H.W. Bush's son.

Unnamed short girl with dark curly hair
Brown freshman who has a conversation with Cedric about the classes she's taking.

Male employee at school bookstore
Offers no help to Cedric when he asks if classes are full.

Female employee at school bookstore
Also offers no help to Cedric during the same incident.

Elie Wiesel
Nobel Peace Prize winning author and convocation speaker a the start of Brown's 1995 school year.

Stephan Wheelock
A black graduate student who teaches the Richard Wright seminar that Cedric takes his first semester.