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Activists from the student group United Non-Discriminatory Initiative Against Equality (UNITED) held a church-style "preach-in" at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) yesterday, protesting what they view as a lack of diversity in the faculty and denouncing what they say has been an unresponsive administration on the issue...
...While Williams has decided to remain at HDS, Callahan, who spoke at the protest, is leaving after this year because he was denied tenure, according to Roshan K. Anderson, a founding member of UNITED and a second-year HDS student...
...root of the problematic culture which has plagued this academy has been its reluctance to hire and foster the tenureship of faculty members of color," said first-year HDS student Luis S. Hernandez Jr., also a founding member of UNITED, in opening remarks at the gathering, which was attended by close to 100 people...
...After loud applause and a hymn, some students stood up to voice their support for the movement for greater diversity at HDS. A Latino man and a black woman read poems they had written about minorities' struggles, including one entitled "Mr. and Mrs. White Guilt...
...Veninga pointed out that due to Thiemann's extended absence from HDS, there are now many new students like herself who aren't even aware of the circumstances under which Thiemann left...