In a whirlwind week last month, Ralph Papitto, the former chairman of the Roger Williams University board, admitted using the N-word at a board meeting in May, then volunteered to have his name taken off the law school -- the only one in Rhode Island. The dust-up arrived at a delicate time for the university and especially for the young law school, which lacks the prestige of top-tier institutions but has aggressively sought skilled students from outside the area and diversity in professors.
August 21, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The law school at Roger Williams University is a relative infant among peers, opened less than 15 years ago and angling ever since to elevate its national profile and climb the rankings ladder.
Which makes the recent attention it’s received all the less welcome.
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