Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Malkin said he only acted because he had received a similar letter from Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, endorsing Tutu on official Harvard stationary. Malkin said he was especially angered because such official endorsements are against Law School policy...
Nathan M. Pusey '28, the 82-year-old former president of Harvard, offered his perspective on recent events at the Law School to a Crimson reporter in a recent interview. Pusey, who drew fire for calling in the police to arrest student protesters 20 years ago, compared the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement at the Law School to the student protesters of a generation ago. CLS, a radical school of legal thought that stresses the law's biases toward the economically privileged, has divided professors at the Law School and prompted Bok's intervention twice in recent years...
...years later, President Nathan M. Pusey '28 stepped down, and Law School Dean Derek C. Bok, who won praise during the student uproar for his moderate stance, assumed the University's top post...
...leader in the Black community in the years preceding the strike, had spent her time fighting many of the same issues the students were protesting--the Vietnam war, Harvard's rapid expansion into the predominantly, Black Riverside neighborhood and the city's lack of a rent control law...
Other changes--not directly linked to the student uprising--forced Harvard to reevaluate the way it dealt with the community. In 1970, the city enacted its current rent control law--designed to put an end to the practice of landlords splitting up apartments and to provide low-cost housing for the city's residents...