Yet while students have applauded the gains that have been made in the Vorenberg years, demonstrations during the last year indicate the distance they feel the Law School must still travel.

Last May, 50 members of the Black Law Students Association--joined by Bell--occupied Vorenberg's office for 24 hours to protest the paucity of minority professors. And Alianza, the school's Hispanic student organization, held two silent demonstrations and postered the campus this spring to protest the lack of a Hispanic professor. In April 125 law students held a study-in as part of a protest involving students at over 35 law schools nationwide demanding greater faculty diversity.

Vorenberg's response to the protests has been to tell students he is aware of their concerns and emphasize that he finds their non-disruptive protest tactics effective.

"As long as it doesn't go beyond what is appropriate and lawful in the Law School community," says Vorenberg. "And I do not feel the protests in the period I have been dean have gone beyond that point. There is some value in students' reminding the faculty what concerns may be of particular interest to the students."

Soon, though, students' concerns will no longer preoccupy the dean. When Professor of Law Robert C. Clark assumes his post next month, Vorenberg and his wife Betty will travel to Indonesia and India, and possibly China.

After that, Vorenberg says he isn't sure about his own long-range plans. Yet, he cautions, "It's important not to rest on our oars, but to keep looking for diversity."