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PROTESTS MAY NOT be the only answer. Law students are also trying to shock Harvard into action by using what they have learned in contracts class and applying it to Harvard's hiring practices. Oral arguments in the Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR) case were heard in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) last Tuesday...
...situations like the CCR suit, the students have a legitimate grievance that should be handled by the state judiciary. This isn't just a dispute about dining hall programs or library check-out rules. The coalition is accusing Harvard of discriminatory hiring practices. That merits a day in court...
Arguing on behalf of the school's Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR) in its suit, third-year students Caroline C. Wittcoff and Laura E. Hankins squared off against a Harvard attorney in front of the Supreme Judicial Court...
Whether or not they convinced the court that CCR should have the right to sue the University over its faculty hiring practices, they impressed observers--including family, friends and legal colleagues--who packed the courtroom...
...discrimination issue intensified when Liacos grilled Hankins about the amount of evidence CCR has to back up the specific discrimination charges...