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Members of the Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR) are charging that Harvard discriminates against women and minorities in faculty hiring, and compared their case yesterday to the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education which declared segregation illegal in public schools...
Later in the proceeding, Laura E. Hankins, the other student to present arguments for CCR, added that Harvard fails to deliver on a contract with students not to discriminate on the basis of race or gender...
Justices Joseph R. Nolan, Francis P.O'Connor, Neil L. Lynch'52, Herbert P. Wilkins '51 and Chief justice Paul J. Liacos will first hear a 15 minute oral argument from Caroline C. Wittcoff and Laura E. Hankins, third-year law students and members of CCR...
Questions during the oral arguments will be important because they will indicate where the justices concerns lie, according to John H. Bonifaz, a third-year law student and CCR member...
...CCR members disagree, contending that studentsare deprived of benefits that a diverse facultywould bring. They also argue that students enterinto a contract with the university in which theschool guarantees it will not discriminate againstthem...