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...will increase faculty awareness of student concerns. "Over 185 people signed up for the course. The numbers should send a very, very strong, clear signal to the faculty that we're not a bunch of troublemakers, that we're not isolated, and our actions are based on strong sentiment." Bisharat said this week...
...Bisharat said he expects about 12 professors and minority legal experts from around the country to come speak, although arrangements still need to be finalized for a number of the possible lectures. W. Haywood Burns '62, co-chairman of the New York-based National Conference of Black Lawyers, delivered Wednesday's lecture, speaking on "Racism and American Law. "A Historical and Theoretical Overview...
...addition to Burns Bisharat said that he has confirmed lecturers for the following three weeks: Robert T. Coulter, founder and executive director of the Indian Resource Center in Washington. D.C., John Britain, associate professor at the University of Connecticut Law School, and Neil Gotanda, assistant professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law. The lecturers will address other legal topics involving racial discrimination, particularly with historical analysis dating back to colonial America...
...Bisharat and other minority leaders are hoping that the course will gain increasing attention during the semester, indicating broad student support for the sort of curriculum and faculty reforms which they propose. "This is the first time in my four years here that I have seen actions of this sort. It reflects that students are waking up and taking an interest," Bisharat said...
...while the students who spent the fall organizing a boycott have now begun to address academic concerns more directly, they refuse to rule out the possibility of additional protest. "If the faculty does not respond in this then they are responsible for our further actions of protest," Bisharat said...