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Phrased in this manner, the commentators who hold an inexplicable fascination for all events at Harvard, immediately came to Jack Greenberg's defense, and it was the alleged racism of the students--not the Law School faculty's racial balance--that got all of the attention. Greenberg in particular attracted this defense because of the almost unequalled regard he has in litigating important civil rights suits. The New York Times rushed to the defense of academic freedom which it perceived as under attack, editorializing: "Surely Harvard law students should be able to make up their own minds about a teacher...
...face of this onslaught, the minority students backed off, saying that they had never intended Greenberg's race to be an issue. Saying this argument was tangential, the students contended that they really objected only to the insensitivity they perceived on the part of the Law School administration, in their handling of the race course, and of minority hiring in general. "The fact that one of these visitors, Jack Greenberg, is white is simply not the animus behind our actions," BLSA executive committee member Donald Christopher Tyler wrote in a recent letter to The Crimson. A press release issued...
When the issue had quieted down, almost all the parties in the conflict agreed that one of the most puzzling aspects of the affair was the extraordinary press it had attracted. Greenberg is shrugging aside most of the publicity, and still looks forward to a good turnout for the course. "One has to do the best one can and make whatever contributions one can," he says, in explaining his continuing commitment to the course. Administrators also seem to shy away from harping on the subject. "We're just surprised at how much attention the whole thing got," says Lance Liebman...
...blames Vorenberg for the tumult. The dean sent a letter out during the summer to all 2L's and 3L's, describing the boycott being planned by BLSA, and enclosed copies of a wide variety of views on the issues--including Kenyatta's, the Third World Coalition's. Greenberg's, and Vorenberg's own. But Kenyatta now questions the need for such a summer missive, suggesting that in part it was an attempt by Vorenberg to raise the issue at a time when minority students were least able to orchestrate a response. The letter "set the stage for the sensational...
Whether Vorenberg's letter fueled the journalistic fires or not, others believe it alone is not sufficient to account for the sort of media fascination the subject commanded--a media fascination that brought the story to headlines as far away as Honolulu, and placed Kenyatta and a supporter of Greenberg in debate on a recent edition of the Today Show. Stern attributes some of the story's popularity to the Law School administration's success in "framing" the issue for popular consumption. "The students didn't have time to structure a public relations approach as the administration did," he says...