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While the tenure decisions themselves may or may not have been correct, the fact that a majority of the faculty is angered over how these decisions came about points to poor leadership by Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49. Yet rather than seek to heal the rift, Vorenberg decided to grease the appointment wheels by stacking the tenure committee with conservative stalwarts. The result, not too surprisingly, was to further divide the faculty...
...Vorenberg's first step should be to address the widespread discontent over the composition of the tenure committee by appointing a new one more acceptable to both sides of the faculty. Next he ought to work to either bridge the political divide within the faculty--an admittedly Herculean task--or establish a compromise on how scholars will be considered for tenure in the future...
...symposium called, "Challenges to Legal Education," Erwin Griswold, Langdell Professor of Law Emeritus, James Vorenberg '48, dean of the Law School, and Albert Sacks, Dane Professor of Law, and two other law professors suggested different recommendations for making curricula less theoretical...
...Vorenberg discussed plans for the school that he has run for the past five years. Calling for a program that would give assistance to the poor, he said, "I would like to see a joint program between law firms and the law schools, that creates a legal aid service." The program would have an additional feature of giving hands-on experience to law students, which he also said the law school curriculum currently lacks...
...addition, a letter signed by Vorenberg and other law deans said Manion had knowingly violated Supreme Court rulings he did not favor when serving as a legislator in his home state of Indiana...