School Daze

Story, such as it is, focuses on the conflict between the militant activists on campus and the goodtime boys of Gamma Phi Gamma fraternity which comes to a headduring homecoming week. Leading the freshman pledges class and begging for acceptance is the diminutive Half-Pint (Spike Lee). In the course of becoming a frat brother he is caught between the demands of fraternity life and the responsibilities of being black advanced by his cousin Dap Dunlap (Larry Fishburne).
Making life miserable for Half-Pint is his pledge-master and Dap 's archrival Julian (Big Brother Almighty) Eaves (Giancarlo Esposito). On the female side , it 's the Gamma Rays vs. the Jigaboos illustrating the tensions between the light-skinned, straight-haired blacks and the dark-skinned sisters. On top of the already-complicated picture, Lee throws in the problems of male-female relations. (Jagr. in Variety, 17.2.1988)