28 Students Arrested in UC Berkeley Protest
Twenty-eight students were arrested Tuesday at the UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall law school during a class boycott to demand more women and minority professors.
Boalt has 91% white males among its 43.5 tenured faculty positions, a percentage exceeded only by the University of Chicago among the nation’s top 10 law schools, a group called the Coalition for a Diversified Faculty claimed.
The one-day protest included a teach-in with speakers from several law schools and a sit-in at Dean Jesse Choper’s office calling for an open faculty meeting on the issue, group spokeswoman Julie Derwinski said.
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