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However, five of the BLSA demands that called on the school to meet specific minority hiring goals--including the appointment of Professor of Law Derrick Bell as Vorenberg's successor--were dismissed in the settlement. "Matters related to specific faculty appointments are confidential and could not be discussed," Vorenberg said in the statement...
...interview yesterday, Vorenberg said the terms of the agreement were not the result of pressure from the protest, but rather the reiteration of the Law School's existing commitment to improve minority representation on the faculty...
...think it was a compromise because I think we're all looking towards the same goals," Vorenberg said. "We have a special search committee for minorities. We already have a requirement that the appointments committee report every year to the faculty on the prospects for the hiring of women and minorities...
After the protesters moved their demonstration from Vorenberg's office to the doors of yesterday's faculty meeting at Pound Hall, Wilkins and two other BLSA representatives spoke to the professors for about a half-hour. According to Bell, who was at the meeting, the students were applauded for their arguments...
...While Vorenberg said that he regretted that the BLSA staged a sit-in and Byse said he was saddened "that society has developed so that law students think that this is necessary," BLSA leaders said they thought the sit-in was necessary to make the faculty...