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Thomas frames his book around a series of events that rocked the HLS campus in 2002. The free speech crisis began when a 16-year old first-year law student—a prodigy named Kiwi Camara— submitted class notes to a school website that included the epithet “nig” as an abbreviation for African Americans. After one student complained, another student sent an anonymous e-mail to many members of the freshman class in which he complained about the response of African Americans to Camara’s email, adding that...
...days later, Professor Charles R. Nesson ’60 went into another instructor’s class and revealed the anonymous e-mailer to be first-year law student Matthias Scholl (who had given Nesson permission to disclose his identity). Nesson proposed that the class hold a mock trial of Scholl. For that proposal, Nesson would eventually be asked by a dean to stop teaching his freshman torts class...
...This week's academy report may provide hints as to whether this admittedly tricky model can survive as Evangelicalism becomes more assertive and its critics more defensive. Meanwhile, if the report is released as expected, academy personnel will have precisely one week to digest it before the next impressionable first-year class arrives, on June 29. --With reporting by Jeff Chu/New York, Rita Healy/Denver, Maggie Sieger/Chicago and Douglas Waller/Washington
...know both Dean Nathans and Dean Dingman to be fair, thoughtful, and experienced administrators,” Mancall says, “and the mission of the FDO will remain the same—helping first-year students to make the important transition from secondary school to college and beyond...
...despite the funding and administrative delays experienced during the first year of the program, the PEPFAR teams were able to reach the first-year targets for the number of patients treated set by the grant...