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...protest that was as alarming as it was original, Harvard Law School professor Derrick Bell last week declared not a sit-in but a walkout: he announced that he would take a leave of absence at the end of this academic year and would return to work only when Harvard added a tenured "woman of color" to the law faculty. "I cannot continue to urge students to take risks for what they believe," he said, "if I do not practice my own precepts." Added Bell, whose salary is about $100,000 a year: "I will view removing myself from...
When about 70 law students first staged a sit-in in Clark's office more than a week ago, as part of a nationwide strike for greater diversity in law school faculties, Clark treated the protesters brusquely...
...instance, when students staged a sit-in in the office of former Dean James Vorenberg '49 two years ago, Vorenberg had gone out of his way to be polite and make the students comfortable. And when students occupied Law School buildings in the tumultuous protests of the late '60s, then-dean Derek C. Bok is said to have brought the students donuts...
After their first protest, students found Clark's demeanor so offensive that they decided to sit-in again. But when students confronted Clark on Monday, the dean, for once, made an effort to at least appear open to discussion...
...Come Back--When Law School Dean Robert C. Clark ordered Griswold Hall locked and secured Thursday--as students were staging a sit-in inside--police took their orders seriously. Very seriously. At one point, a security officer apparently became nervous that three protesters standing in an open doorway might let more in. So the stocky, trench-coat clad officer used his body to block off the door, and began pushing the students out. A shoving match ensued, and one woman law student ended up on the ground...