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WHEN PRESIDENT BOK finally announced last week that professor James Vorenberg will succeed Albert M. Sacks as dean of the Law School, many students did not know how to react...
Most were not surprised at Bok's choice--they knew last fall that Vorenberg was one of the leading contenders for the post--but few knew what he stood for. Students know Vorenberg from the classroom--he is a popular criminal law professor--but his vision of the school and the issues it faces remain enigmatic...
Students' unfamiliarity with Vorenberg is testimony to the secrecy and mystery surrounding the way Bok chose the new dean--a procedure that should be changed in time for the next dean search at any of Harvard's faculties...
Given the century-old Law School tradition of deans selected from the faculty, the choice of Vorenberg to head the school seems a good one--no one is more knowledgable and dedicated to the school than he. We hope he will be amenable to student participation in both discussion and decision-making at the school. The issues students seem most concerned with include faculty hiring--particularly the search for qualified minorities and women to join the faculty--and the school's generally casual attention to affirmative action. Vorenberg should be sensitive and receptive to these concerns...
...Vorenberg said this week that students should not participate in faculty hiring--one area in which students have said they want more input--because they are at the school for too short a time...