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When Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49 prefaced a question to Law with the statement, "This may sound like a question about abortion but it isn't." Law replied, "Thank...
...faculty rejected the Council's proposals, however, unleashing a wave of protest that rivaled the upheavals of a year ago. The proposals had emerged from dialogue with a faculty liaison committee appointed by Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 to stem the tide of unrest after boycotts, demonstrations, and sit-ins locked the campus last spring. For may, their defeat signaled the failure of student efforts to work within established channels, and previously passive students entered the fray...
About 50 students, led by former Law Record Editor Louis J. Hoffman, staged a sit-in in Pound Hall, defying Vorenberg's demands that they disperse and forcing him to relocate a faculty meeting...
...Dean of the Law School James Vorenburg '49 disagreed, saying, "If indeed there is a tradition, I think it's the other way." Vorenberg asked the committee to consider the student's complaint as past of a broader problem of negative student perceptions...
...have taken encouraging measures in the past couple of years to show students an alternative direction. The fledgling Public Service Program and the 68-year old Phillips Brooks House combined this fall to channel one-sixth of the undergraduate population into volunteer projects. In December, Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 unveiled a subsidized loan plan for those foregoing the lucrative summer internships for lower paying jobs. But these programs are by themselves insufficient, because they ignore the fundamental problem of making a living for oneself while helping others...