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...year ago, students at 36 law schools around the country protested the underrepresentation of minorities and women on their faculties. While the turnout for such demonstrations included up to half the student body at many schools, only 200 of the approximately 1700 students at Harvard participated in a sit-in a Langdell Hall...
...years ago, a group of Black law students staged a sit-in at the office of Dean James Vorenberg '49 to demand that the Law School boost its complement of minority faculty members...
Woody goes after that sound in two ways. First, by using a wide open mouthpiece and a very hard reed -- a Rico Royale No. 5 -- which provides a lot of volume but requires cast-iron lips to play. (Benny Goodman once borrowed Woody's clarinet for a sit-in and had to shave the reed down with a kitchen knife before he could get a toot out of it.) Second, by playing an Albert System clarinet -- an antiquated, wide-bore instrument based on a virtually obsolete fingering method. Why the Albert System? "Because all the guys I liked played...
Stanford University was rocked by controversy earlier this year over that most basic of academic issues: what speech should always remain protected and what is so offensive that it can be stopped. After a sit-in on the president's office and various disciplinary penalties, the issue has yet to be resolved...
Stanford University was rocked by controversy earlier this year over that most basic of academic issues: what speech should always remain protected and what is so offensive that it can be stopped. After a sit-in on the president's office and various disciplinary penalties, the issue has yet to be resolved...