Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recognize why you are here and the message you want to send to the Law School and the Law School faculty," Vorenberg told students at the protest. "And I want to thank you for carrying on this forum in a considerate and careful way. It adds to the strength of what you have...
...student political activity has not been consistently sedate this year. Last fall, controversy over a proposed amendment to the Law School Council's charter culminated in sabotage, personal attacks and charges of bigotry by both proponents and opponents of the amendment...
Tensions were sparked when a council-organized committee advising the search for a new Law School dean expressly set aside two seats for members of the Coalition for a Diverse Faculty, a minority student alliance. When the council would not similarly reserve seats for members of a conservative student group, the group proposed an amendment preventing the council from reserving seats for members of any specific student organization, except in special cases...
...This proposal is racist," said Robert L. Wilkins, president of the Black Law Students' Association. "The assumption it asked people to make runs counter to the idea of fighting discrimination. This whole thing became very insulting because conservative students were trying to equate their experience as an 'ideological minority' with that of Black, female or gay students...
...March, the Women's Law Association wrote to a visiting professor, charging that he repeatedly used sexist language in his lectures and in a textbook he authored. The professor responded with a sharp criticism of the group's claim, saying "this whole affair...reeks of McCarthyism...