Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School is not alone in having few ethics specialists among its faculty. Accomplished ethics professors are a select group, say scholars in the field, and even the B-School's greatest efforts would fail to secure as many professors as teach in programs such as finance or marketing...
Tensions were sparked when a council-organized committee advising the search for a new Law School dean expressly set aside two seats for members of the Coalition for a Diverse Faculty, a minority student alliance. When the council would not similarly reserve seats for members of a conservative student group, the group proposed an amendment preventing the council from reserving seats for members of any specific student organization, except in special cases...
...Many people were against this not in principle, but because the conservative and libertarian students proposed it," says Sam J. Levy, who was a member of the group that proposed the amendment and also president of the Federalist Society...
...referendum campaign went beyond group-sponsored endorsements and condemnations of the measure: posters encouraging support for the amendment were defaced, and Levy received abusive letters and telephone calls from opponents...
...March, the Women's Law Association wrote to a visiting professor, charging that he repeatedly used sexist language in his lectures and in a textbook he authored. The professor responded with a sharp criticism of the group's claim, saying "this whole affair...reeks of McCarthyism...