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About a month ago, one Law School professor circulated a memo claiming that there was a bitter split among faculty members. According to the professor, Charles R. Nesson '60, associate dean of the school, the faculty has been divided into a "right" and a "left" camp throughout the past decade. The faculty division had become so deep. Nesson charged, that it led professors to engage in "Villification of the opposition, name-calling, backstabbing and character assassination...
Many professors--though not all--agree with Nesson's assessment. While most of these faculty members do not believe the split is as intense as Nesson says, they do agree that the polarization affects the way the faculty operates...
...Nesson, a member of the committee responsible for the report-the first major review of the school's curriculum in two decades-said in a memo that the Law School is suffering from a "polarization" of the faculty into a "right" camp and a "left" camp...
...Even Nesson has not yet offered an actual plan. "I am not prepared at this point to offer a specific agenda for peace negotiations," his memo says. Nesson was not available for comment yesterday...
...Nesson says that the Law School's "central objective" should be to produce peace among the faculty, calling it "our biggest problem...