A Different World/Ms. Understanding

Ms. Understanding
Season 4, Episode 17
Airdate	February 28, 1991
Production Number	415
Written by	Yvette Lee Bowser, Judi Ann Mason
Directed by	Debbie Allen
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A Different World — Season Four

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Ms. Understanding is the seventeenth episode of the fourth season of A Different World, and the eighty-sixth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Ajai Sanders (Gina Deveaux), Cory Tyler (Terrence Johann Taylor), Andrew Lowery (Matthew), Gary Dourdan (Shazza Zulu), Rosalind Cash (Dean Hughes), Aaron Seville (Guy)

Co-Starring:

Plot Overview

Shazza Zulu, a student in his sixth year of undergraduate work, publishes a book discussing the sexist behavior of men at Hillman. The women take his words to heart; they get really worked up and decide to boycott all men. The men respond with a boycott of their own. Everyone gets upset with Dwayne and Whitley for refusing to take part, and Whitley's friends try to convince her that Dwayne is fooling around with the female students he tutors. After a food fight breaks out at the campus movie theater, Dean Hughes calls a summit to get the two sides to work out their differences. The students turn against Shazza, who insists that he is trying to promote harmony. He singles out Kim as someone who has turned against her race by dating a white man. She tells him off and storms out. Ron, who had earlier expressed a similar sentiment, apologizes to Kim and admits that he was jealous.