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...April 4, 1985, about 5,000 students gathered in Harvard Yard for a protest organized by SASC, which had invited Reverend Jesse I. Jackson to speak to the riled crowds. Jackson had written a letter to Bok a month earlier in which he urged the University to divest...
...long-time Law School insider and a member of Kagan’s “kitchen cabinet,” Minow has proven her ability to navigate the egos and politics of the school during what has been a seamless transition, says Law School professor Howell E. Jackson, who served as interim dean...
...don’t come here in the early 80s as a diminutive young woman and succeed the way she succeeded without being pretty tough,” Jackson says. “You can say she’s conciliatory, or you can say she’s from Chicago and she knows how to get things done...
Though most deans teach occasionally, Minow managed to teach a yearlong course and a class during the winter term—as well as lectured at various universities and completed a book on Brown v. Board of Education to be published this summer—an academic load that Jackson says is unusually heavy...
...It’s a signal to the faculty that that’s what she thinks is important,” Jackson says...