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Members of the Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR) yesterday protested the lack of diversity on the Law School faculty during a town meeting held by Dean Robert C. Clark...
...really think you're making a contribution?" shouted Fessenden Professor of Law Bernard Wolfman as CCR members continued reading from their list of names...
...never ceases to amaze me how some people can bombast about the evils of bigotry at one moment while breathing forth their own form of prejudice in the next. A prime example of such hypocritical bigotry was the Law School Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR) rally on Friday, February 26 in support of granting tenure to University of Michigan law professor Catharine MacKinnon, a longtime advocate of state-enforced censorship and sex discrimination...
...ugly and divisive as MacKinnon's sentiments are, she has a right to free speech. But her hatemongering should not win her tenure at Harvard, nor should it take the place of balanced scholarship as a required academic credential. For CCR, which claims to champion civil rights, to endorse her candidacy reflects utter hypocrisy. No civil right is more important than free speech, and few are more precious than the equal protection of the law. Only Orwellian doublespeak can justify granting a bigoted censor tenure under the guise of promoting civil rights. Who will CCR support for tenure next? Leonard...
Third-year law student Camille D. Holmes, a member of the Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR), said yesterday she felt the graffiti was a "symptom of students' discontent...