Tenure Denials to 3 Hispanics Raise Ethnic Tensions at St. Mary's in Texas

When three Hispanic faculty members came up for tenure this month in the law school at St. Mary's University in Texas, a faculty committee shot them all down. Now, some minority advocates are crying foul, questioning the law school's commitment to diversity.

San Antonio's Hispanic community was already upset about the 1997 dismissal of the school's dean, Barbara Bader Aldave, who had been criticized by some

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