Word: blsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they really objected only to the insensitivity they perceived on the part of the Law School administration, in their handling of the race course, and of minority hiring in general. "The fact that one of these visitors, Jack Greenberg, is white is simply not the animus behind our actions," BLSA executive committee member Donald Christopher Tyler wrote in a recent letter to The Crimson. A press release issued by the National Black American Law Students Association, BLSA's national body, issued after the press furor, also denies that students ever took real exception to Greenberg's race. "The fact that...
...students' affirmative action plans, since he had made clear that he had no desire to seek permanent employment with Harvard. "This issue has been part and parcel of an ongoing struggle to enhance the 'minority' presence at HLS," Muhammad Kenyatta, president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA) wrote to Chambers after the announcement, explaining why his group would urge a student boycott of the course. "The campaign for the course has been a stratagem, the broader goals of which include increasing the number of full-time, tenured Black and 'Third World' faculty members at the Law School...
...have remained silent. But the angry law students went a step further--attacking Greenberg's ability, as a white person, to teach the course. Kenyatta wrote a letter to Chambers in mid-May, in which he outlined his group's perspective: "Shortly after learning of this proposed arrangement, the BLSA executive committee met and carefully considered the matter in light of several relevant factors. Paramount among these is BLSA's desire that Constitutional Law and Minority Issues be taught in its entirety by a minority professor." The Law School's Third World Coalition was perhaps more blatant. The group...
...Harvard Law School chapter of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) has endorsed a May 22 march to be held in New York City in honor of African Liberation Day. Muhammad I Kenyatta, president of BLSA said yesterday...
...coalition of groups at the law school, including the BLSA, the Women's Law Student Association, the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Issues, Alianza (the Hispanics Law Students Organization), and the Law Students Council has formed this year to endorse African liberation and to press for the University's divestment from companies economically involved in South Africa...