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...affair also reminds us that the hard-won emancipation of the human mind from those who would enslave it, now often taken for granted in the West, is more precious and more fragile than we would like to believe. The decision last week by some U.S. booksellers, including B. Dalton, Waldenbooks, and Barnes & Noble, to remove The Satanic Verses from store displays and shelves can only encourage future acts of intellectual terrorism. They have agreed to put the book back on the shelves, but their initial response is still disturbing...
...boomed -- more than 100,000 copies were in print around the world -- and a second U.S. printing was on the way, but distribution was a growing problem. Waldenbooks ordered copies of The Satanic Verses removed from its more than 1,300 stores after getting several threats. Next day B. Dalton and Barnes & Noble followed suit. "We have never before pulled a book off our shelves," said Leonard Riggio, B. Dalton's chief executive officer. "It is regrettable that a foreign government has been able to hold hostage our most sacred First Amendment principle. Nevertheless, the safety of our employees...
...During his term as chair of the Subcommittee on Appointing Women, Clark was responsible for appointing only one woman to the faculty. When Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, one of the School's two tenured Black professors, held a sit-in to protest the denial of tenure to Dalton, Clark said "This is a university--not some lunch counter in the South...
March 10, 1988-President Bok announces that he did not grant tenure to Professor of Law Clare Dalton, an adherent to the radical school of legal thought, Critical Legal Studies (CLS). The Law School Faculty becomes polarized over the Dalton issue and its ideological ramifications. Professor of Law Robert C. Clark is among Dalton's and CLS's-most vocal critics...
...Clare Dalton, to whom the Law School was untrue...