Not A Pretty Picture

Several students spoke in defense of the faculty action, but most attacked the new rules "Are they trying to make our classroom discussions look like their faculty meetings?" .. are to look in the minor," one member of the Law Review said, implying that the school's reforms should begin with the faculty itself.

After the speeches concluded at 11.30 a.m., approximately 250 students matched on the dean's office in Grisweld Hall, where a dozen Harvard policeman waited with orders not to interfere. The students confronted Vorenberg for half on hour and then sat down for the afternoon.

No Discipline

"I have no information that would be the basis for disciplinary action." Vorenberg said at a press conference Friday afternoon.

The students gathered in several groups at the dean's office and in Langdell Hall, discussing tactics and amusing themselves with songs--for instance, "Change, change, change your vote" to the time of "Row, row row your host." A collection was taken up for pizza, and the Third World Coalition, the minority student group that was responsible for much of the student activism this year at the Law School, handed out several cases of soda.

At 3:10 p.m., Professor Gerald Frug moved his class in Local Government down ...

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The .., with many favoring the lathy. "I don't think we can allow another faculty vote on this issue without charging the procedure," said one student. Even a reversal of Wednesday's decision, said another, "leaves as with the same process."

It is telling that the students who have argued since February for a voice in the decisions that affect legal education have gained significant support from the rest of the student body not on social issues but on classroom-related ones.

A March 9 student-faculty forum, jointly sponsored by the Third World Coalition and the faculty, drew over 350 students, with one of the largest complaints concerning the structure of the school's curriculum. Yesterday the issue was one traditionally near to law students' hearts grades.

More Activism

Another recent example of student activism is a letter, signed by 63 Jewish students at the Law School and 70 from Yale and New York University Law Schools, sent to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and delivered to the Israeli mission to the United Nations Friday. The letter protests the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the treatment of Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories