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When he was a student at Harvard Law School (HLS), his professors used to joke that only he and God were smart enough to understand his papers...
Thus, zero-tolerance means embracing diversity. The current conflict at HLS is not an isolated incident, but is a symptom of a larger, more pervasive disease: inexperience with diversity. To prevent events like those at HLS from reoccurring, Harvard should take precautionary steps to reaffirm its commitment to diversity and prepare students for active participation in a multiracial democracy and a connected world...
...little more than two weeks ago, a first-year law student at Harvard Law School (HLS) sent an agressive anonymous email to a classmate who had previously attacked an HLS website for referring to blacks using the term “nigs.” Although the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) decried the use of the term, other students defended his right to refer to black people using that word or any other. Since then, flyers with anti-black and anti-Semitic statements have been anonymously distributed around the Law School...
...response, HLS Dean Robert C. Clark, Dean of the J.D. Program Todd Rakoff and Dean of Students Suzanne Richardson sent an e-mail to faculty and students condemning the acts, and promising an investigation. Such measures are the typical University response to hate speech and resort to the formula of “condemn and conference.” But this time, the administration’s failure to take further action is unacceptable. According to the group, BLSA has “lost its patience” with the Law School’s “indifference...
Harvard, and indeed all universities, should seize the moment when incidents such as those at HLS occur. When students err on sensitive issues such as race, universities typically distance themselves from the situation, mistakenly framing the issue as an isolated incident. This “discipline and divorce” response reifies, rather than reaffirms the university’s commitment to diversity and democratic values...