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...Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell Jr. recently announced his decision to ask the University for one more year of unpaid leave. Bell went on leave in April 1990, threatening not to return until the Law School hired a Black woman. President Neil L. Rudenstine said last week that Bell's request could not be granted...
...Harvard Law School, the issue of minority hiring is about to explode. A student group is in the Massachusetts Superior Court trying to win legal standing to sue the University. Derrick Bell is calling on Harvard to extend his leave, which he took in order to protest the lack of minority faculty, and is filing discrimination charges with the U.S. Department of Education...
STUDENT GROUPS and faculty members such as Derrick Bell have been bashing the faculty minority hiring record for years...
...Derrick Bell has been urging the Law School to hire more minorities for over a decade. In April 1990, he took a leave of absence and is refusing to return to HLS until they hire a law professor who is a woman of color...
...CLEAR if this new dimension of dissent will work with the Harvard administration. If the law students or Derrick bell succeed in their legal action, it is not definite that there is anything they can do to force Harvard to hire certain people. There are too many factors--such as the consent of those to whom the University offers jobs--beyond the control of Harvard's faculty hiring committees...