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...Austin, however, has preferred to maintain a low profile. She has said she approves of the activists' goals, but has nonetheless remained detached from the actual protests, apparently in the hope that her name would not become too closely tied to the student demonstrations...
...year, student activists have been chanting "Regina Austin now, Regina Austin now," in the hopes that the Law School faculty would appoint Austin to a lifetime post, and make her Harvard's first tenured minority woman law professor...
...Harvard this past year, Austin quickly found herself at the center of a nationally publicized controversy over minority faculty hiring--a controversy she did not in any way instigate. And needles to say, the young torts scholar from the University of Pennsylvania does not seem thrilled about...
...became difficult to remain anonymous after Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, one of the school's three tenured Black professors, announced he was taking a leave of absence until the school offered a lifetime post to a Black woman. Immediately, all eyes turned to Austin--the only Black female professor on campus...
Since then, Austin has remained especially quiet, politely but consistently turning down all requests for interviews. Her only public statement on the matter was an open letter to the Law School community, in which she attempted to distance herself from Bell and his demands...