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The people who work in the music department were really awful and terrible to me. I enrolled in this school in 2006 and tried to audition for the music dept to play clarinet since I played in high school. I was told by the administrative dept that I could take a specific music class. When I went to the class this horrible professor took one look at me and said, "there must be some mistake. You don't belong in this class." He did not here me audition or play at all and yet he made that comment. I stayed in the class for a while and the professor was unbelievably mean and horrible to me. He would not allow me to participate in the class at all and told me that I need to speak to another person in the department. Several people walked into the class to talk to him and then the students played a song after they left. I clapped for the students after they played and then the horrible professor chased me out of the class and said that I need to speak to the people who just left the class. When I left the class, I asked the people if they are in fact the ones I need to speak to, and they said no, you have the wrong names. It therefore turned out that the professor simply did not want me there. I was the only black person and female and all of these professors and students were both white and male. I asked administration about remaining in the instruments dept and I was told that I have to drop the class. Since I never auditioned and was angrily chased out of the class, this most likely means that the professor who chased me out and many of his coworkers are racist. They are horrible horrible people. So if this or something similar happens to you or someone you know be sure to report it and try to have them fired. That is what I should have done. Despicable.