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President Bok this week criticized the organizers of a controversial boycott of a Law School course, saying the attempt by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) to replace a white professor with a minority "was not the best choice of tactics...
...first public comment on the dispute--which drew national publicity this summer--Bok said in a broad-ranging interview Wednesday that he "would have become somewhat involved" had the Law School acceded to the BLSA's request...
...BLSA had initially launched the boycott because it objected to the selection of white co-instructor Jack Greenberg, chief counsel of the legal defense of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP...
Though some boycott organizers had criticized Greenberg's refusal to abandon his NAACP post in favor of a Black attorney, the BLSA has subsequently stressed the need for more minority Law faculty in explaining the boycott...
...BLSA executive committee member Donald Christopher Tyler said last week that his group would not judge the success of its boycott strictly by numbers. "I do feel the boycott will emphasize to the Law School the need for more minorities and women professors...