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Spurred by concern over the new dean selection and by frustration over the potential departure of two of five Black tenure or tenure-tracked professors within the next year, Black Law Students Association (BLSA) members said they were convinced the faculty's commitment to minority hiring was at best superficial...
...professors' departures, coupled withfrustration at previous meetings with seniorfaculty members, prompted BLSA to hold a 24-hoursit in at the dean's office...
...protest--noteworthy for its nonviolentnature as well as its emphasis on hiring--prompteda meeting between BLSA leaders, Vorenberg andAssociate Dean Andrew L. Kaufman '51. The resultof those meetings was a general agreement topursue seven of the BLSA's 12 demands and areaffirmation of the Law School's commitment tominority hiring...
Contrary to BLSA demands, the Law Schoolrefused to set quotas for minority hiring...
Wilkins, the BLSA president, said he felt the sit-in and the rally were very successful and announced that Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49 "specifically agreed to going ahead" with seven of the 12 student demands...