Word: belle
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...Bell, now teaching at New York University Law School, said he would not seek reappointment. The 61-year-old scholar said he is skeptical about the prospect for meaningful change at the school, and about the administration's commitment to faculty diversity...
...years at the Law School, Bell was an outspoken and often controversial advocate of increased minority faculty hiring. He left Harvard in 1980 to serve as dean of the University of Oregon Law School, but resigned over a faculty hiring dispute in 1985 and returned to Harvard...
...Harvard yesterday, Bell said discrimination is so systemic that increased hiring of minority faculty would not be enough. "I think that while race and diversity are dramatic things, they are only visible pieces of much deeper problems," he said...
Responding to questions from a standing-room only audience, Bell discussed his experiences at Harvard as well ashis new book, Faces at the Bottom of theWell...
Asked about Harvard's new president, Neil L.Rudenstine, Bell shook his head in resignation. "Iwould've hoped that there was going to be a newstart there...