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...eminent Black attorney, he was of little use to the students' affirmative action plans, since he had made clear that he had no desire to seek permanent employment with Harvard. "This issue has been part and parcel of an ongoing struggle to enhance the 'minority' presence at HLS," Muhammad Kenyatta, president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA) wrote to Chambers after the announcement, explaining why his group would urge a student boycott of the course. "The campaign for the course has been a stratagem, the broader goals of which include increasing the number of full-time, tenured Black...
...students stopped here, the great legions of reporters and national pundits who love to draw "lessons," and prove trends by citing occurrences at Harvard, might have remained silent. But the angry law students went a step further--attacking Greenberg's ability, as a white person, to teach the course. Kenyatta wrote a letter to Chambers in mid-May, in which he outlined his group's perspective: "Shortly after learning of this proposed arrangement, the BLSA executive committee met and carefully considered the matter in light of several relevant factors. Paramount among these is BLSA's desire that Constitutional...
...Kenyatta, for one, blames Vorenberg for the tumult. The dean sent a letter out during the summer to all 2L's and 3L's, describing the boycott being planned by BLSA, and enclosed copies of a wide variety of views on the issues--including Kenyatta's, the Third World Coalition's. Greenberg's, and Vorenberg's own. But Kenyatta now questions the need for such a summer missive, suggesting that in part it was an attempt by Vorenberg to raise the issue at a time when minority students were least able to orchestrate a response. The letter "set the stage...
...asked black Lawyer Julius LeVonne Chambers to take over in 1982-83. Chambers asked Greenberg to help. At the same time, the course was rescheduled from its usual slot to an intensive three-week January miniterm. The switch and the choice of a white teacher were "insulting," said Muhammad Kenyatta, head of the 125-member Black Law Students Association. Kenyatta has created a major stir on campus by calling for a boycott of the course by students...
Much of Moi's trouble may be of his own making. After he was elected in 1979 as the successor to Kenya's legendary founding father Jomo Kenyatta, the new President was praised by observers for his relatively liberal approach to politics. But in the past six months Moi has shown an increasingly authoritarian bent. He has ordered the detention, without charges, of seven people, including four Nairobi University lecturers, presumably for expressing reservations about his rule, and the lawyer who took up their case. In June, after the country's most prominent left-wing tribal leader...