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Last May, 50 members of the Black Law Students Association--joined by Bell--occupied Vorenberg's office for 24 hours to protest the paucity of minority professors. And Alianza, the school's Hispanic student organization, held two silent demonstrations and postered the campus this spring to protest the lack of a Hispanic professor. In April 125 law students held a study-in as part of a protest involving students at over 35 law schools nationwide demanding greater faculty diversity...
Demonstration organizers have said they favor quieter methods of protest because "we didn't think that [stronger forms of protest] would work here now," according to Ivette Pena, the incoming chair of Alianza, a Hispanic students' organization. Pena added that Alianza would continue its negotiation with the administration over the next academic year, but "we don't want to be forced to take harsher measures...
Today--A noon rally in front of University Hall. Alumni from the 1969 student strike and undergraduate student leaders will speak on activism then and now. There will be speakers from student groups including La Alianza, Black Law Students' Association, Committee on Central America, Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, Dining Services Union, Minority Students' Alliance, Southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the Woman's Alliance. Music by the Radical Arms Troop and the Pipettes...
...Alianza plans to participate in a national minority group protest on April 6 that will include over 30 law schools, said James Vigil, a third-year student. Stanford, Chicago and Yale are among the law schools whose minority groups are participating...
...Alianza, which organized the protest this Tuesday, has been actively publicizing its cause in the past two weeks, Salazar said...