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...Hall, Bok had pursued the opposite tack. When a group of protesters held an all-night "study in" at the Law School's library, Bok ordered coffee and doughnuts and thanked the students for "coming to show your concern." Bok's colleagues from his Law School days, including James Vorenberg, professor of Law, clearly remember the "very cool, moderate role" the young dean played in calming a school beset by its share of the heat...
...Faculty and Bok's primary competitor for the presidency--Bok, through his writing and services, had established himself as an expert on collective bargaining and negotiation techniques. Since joining the school's Faculty in 1961, he had developed a reputation as a "very serious and very intense scholar," Vorenberg says. "People who looked at him the day before he became dean of the Law School would see a committed academic." Says Bok today: "I did not come into academic life with any idea of taking on administrative functions...
Even if a center is established, the criminal justice program at the Law School will continue its current projects, but may take on others jointly with the K-School center, James Vorenberg, professor of Law, said yesterday...
...State Senate appointed Vorenberg chief counsel to the special committee on ethics chaired by State Sen. Chester G. Atkins. As counsel, Vorenberg handled the senate's investigation of State Senators Joseph J.C. DiCarlo and Ronald MacKenzie, who had been convicted for extortion earlier in the year. The commission's inquiries forced MacKenzie to resign his seat and led to DiCarlo's expulsion...
...three gubernatorial appointees to the Commonwealth's new commission, Vorenberg is responsible for running its bi-weekly meetings and wielding the gavel at all commission inquiries. "We have the whole field of conflict of interest, bribery and corruption in our jurisdiction," Vorenberg notes. "We intend to fulfill our intended role, for the history of this legislation makes it clear that neither the public nor the legislature would find it acceptable if we became merely a receptacle for files...