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...School Dean Elena Kagan said in an interview yesterday that she supported the committee’s decison to ask for Cox’s resignation. Kaufman and Kagan both said an earlier committee that drafted the FYL overhaul proposal in the spring had also barred BSA members. “The precedent was set last year,” Kaufman said...
Third-year law student Ronald M. Varnum, who is president of the BSA, said the committee was inconsistent with its conflict-of-interest policy. He said that committee member Virginia Wise, a senior lecturer on law for legal research, “has been involved directly with the existing [FYL] program...
Holly Hogan, president of the Law Students Council, said she will meet with Kaufman and Dean of Students Ellen Cosgrove this afternoon to discuss student representation on the committee. Hogan’s group selected Cox for a student post on the FYL committee and was surprised to learn that the panel barred BSA members from its ranks...
...panel “really was a fairly clear conflict of interest.” Richenthal noted that the committee has valued the BSA’s input throughout the reform process, and that “final decisions as to the status of the BSA in the FYL program have not been made...
...School established FYL four years ago after employers complained that Harvard graduates didn’t have adequate research and writing skills...