November 1, 2002

When Faculty Hiring Is Blatantly Illegal

By ROGER CLEGG

This summer Denys S. Blell, a light-skinned African-Lebanese man, sued Loyola College in Maryland in federal court after he was turned down for a position in academic affairs at the institution. Blell contended that Loyola's vice president for academic affairs told him that black faculty members were pressuring him to hire an "African-American that was visibly black." Loyola has denied all of his allegations, but Blell asserts that an independent witness who sat in on the hiring meetings will

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