Word: blsa
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...than two weeks ago, a first-year law student at Harvard Law School (HLS) sent an agressive anonymous email to a classmate who had previously attacked an HLS website for referring to blacks using the term “nigs.” Although the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) decried the use of the term, other students defended his right to refer to black people using that word or any other. Since then, flyers with anti-black and anti-Semitic statements have been anonymously distributed around the Law School...
...acts, and promising an investigation. Such measures are the typical University response to hate speech and resort to the formula of “condemn and conference.” But this time, the administration’s failure to take further action is unacceptable. According to the group, BLSA has “lost its patience” with the Law School’s “indifference to the needs of black law students in crisis...
Thursday’s BLSA letter to HLS administrators included nine demands, including the creation of an “Office of Multicultural Affairs” and a new policy banning racial harassment...
...administration met one of these demand—for deans to meet with BLSA representatives—on Saturday...
...deans have plans to meet with BLSA again later this week, Armini said...