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Altshuler, who has been dean since 2004, said in a phone interview that when Faust asked him to stay on until December, “it was an easy decision to say ‘yes.’”
Smith, on vacation in Europe, has not returned requests for comment. It remains unclear how the dean-to-be will fill the most important unoccupied position in University Hall, the College deanship. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross '71 resigned last week, two days after Smith sent his letter...
Justice Stephen Breyer led Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in dissent, arguing that the districts' use of race served their powerful interest in making sure that students reaped the benefits of learning in racially diverse classrooms. And what about Brown v. Board of Education, Breyer...
Breyer seems way too pessimistic. Kennedy's concurrence suggests that schools might figure out an acceptable way to use race in assigning students, and there are apparently five firm votes on this court for allowing race as a factor in creating good public schools. What's more, the decision did...
Today's decision should weaken that charge, but Mark Tushnet, a professor at Harvard Law School, says these issues may be the next legal battleground for school diversity. "School systems are going to try to achieve these (diversity) goals," he explains, "and they'll use proxies, and it will be...