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...more astonishing because Harper had been seen as a “team player in every way,” says anthropologist and outspoken Summers critic J. Lorand Matory...
Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., who has known Harper for over 30 years, says his friend’s decision to step down was “the first indication at all that there were differing opinions among the governing boards in terms of the president’s leadership...
Even though Harper will not be at this year’s Commencement exercises, he says he’ll be having lunch in New York City with a current Law School student to discuss her career plans...
...Harper will go down in the University’s history books as the first African-American member of the Corporation and for his commitment to civil rights...
...cites two cases from early in his career among his proudest moments as a lawyer. At age 28, as an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund, Harper argued on behalf of black Little Rock, Ark. residents seeking membership in an all-white club. He took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court?...