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Yohannes Tsehai, president of the Harvard chapter of the Black Law Students’ Association (BLSA), attributes much of the law school gender gap to the higher enrollment of black women in college nationwide...
...When you look in the U.S. News and World Report you see the number of women, the number of blacks,” said Jennifer A. Gray, a BLSA executive, but you don’t see the number of black women. Admitting women minority members allows admissions officers to increase the percentages of two underrepresented groups...
Also, late last night the Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA) announced it will file a brief today along with the Stanford and Yale BLSA groups...
Specifically, we heard members of Harvard Law School’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) recently announce their desire to introduce a code to ban offensive, racially-charged speech after a number of on-campus incidents involving racial slurs. It was not without some historic irony that Harvard’s BLSA called for codes proscribing offensive words; after all, it was in this very same law school’s marketplace of ideas that eventual Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., studied, taught and vigorously defended the constitutional right of free, unfettered speech...
Those calling for speech codes frequently see themselves as victims, and victimism exploits its position by calling for greater “diversity” in the community in which the victim exists. Likewise, BLSA members have advocated greater diversity in the student body and faculty at the Law School. But that very diversity normally brings individuals with unpopular views into the academic community, precisely the views the proposed speech code would attempt to silence. Thus, the call for diversity is actually disingenuous—what speech code advocates really want is a greater representation in their community of individuals...