Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Derrick Bell has been urging the Law School to hire more minorities for over a decade. In April 1990, he took a leave of absence and is refusing to return to HLS until they hire a law professor who is a woman of color...
...spring, his allotted two years of leave is over. Bell is planning to file suit for discrimination and take other legal measures. But barring any legal injunctions. Bell has only three options: he can convince Harvard to extend his leave, he can come back or he can resign...
President Neil L. Rudenstine said last week that he will not make any exceptions for Bell. And he shouldn...
...Bell may have felt forced to take a leave of "conscience," and he may think it's the University's fault, but that should not be enough to change this particular University policy. If Harvard starts allowing extra leaves, it will have to grant that privilege to other professors with causes. It will become difficult to draw the line between protesting and convenient association with this school...
...Bell feels so strongly that a woman of color needs to be hired at Harvard, then he cannot come back before that time without compromising his principles...