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Former University President Derek C. Bok criticized the Bush plan—which suggests these percent programs as alternatives to using race as a factor in admission. He said the percent plans were irrelevant to private universities like Harvard and to professional schools...
...Bok, who in 1998 co-authored The Shape of the River, a book defending affirmative action in higher education, added that a percent plan completely contradicts Harvard’s admissions policy...
...latest of the visiting professors,Wisconsin Law School Professor David Trubek, wasgranted tenure by the faculty last spring, but hisappointment was reversed by Bok after a minorityof opponents charged that the scholar was tenuredfor political reasons. The decision representedthe first time that a president had reversed thevote of the law faculty in recent memory...
...Bok's decision to intervene in Trubek's casewas the first implementation of a policy,announced in 1985, that called for the presidentto intervene in Law School tenure cases if therewere charges of polical bias...
Opponents of CLS used this policy successfullyto convince Bok to review the Trubek case, andsupporters of the movement used the same tactic toask for Bok's second look at the Dalton case...