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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...
...letter published in the Harvard Law Record, BLSA chastised the administration for neglecting its duty “to set a responsible institutional tone of civility, decency and respect for minorities.” About 400 students, faculty and even admitted students who were visiting the campus walked out of classes and joined BLSA on Monday in a protest rally outside Harkness Commons to oppose racial harassment at the Law School and to urge administrators to take further action...
...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...