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...course, catering to the needs of over 11,000 Crimson faithful who each expect a seat at the 50 yardline has its headaches, but then again the next customer at the ticket window could be Jack Lemmon, Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Tricia Nixon Cox, or, for that matter, Arthur Drinkwater...
...broader scale, the court has shown increasing reluctance to settle questions better left to "the normal processes of democracy [such as legislatures or regents boards]." It has at times declined, in cases involving schools, to second-guess educational professionals. Cox encouraged that approach, urging the Justices to leave the details of experimentation in race conciliation matters to local experts. The diversity of states and their universities is "one of the greatest sources of creativity in this country," he said...
Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox, representing the University of California: There are three facts, realities, which I think must control the decision of this court. The first is that the number of qualified applicants for the nation's professional schools is vastly greater than the number of places available...
...Cox: Yes, but it was not stigmatizing in the sense that the old quota against Jews was stigmatizing...
...Cox: [It is not] properly defined as a quota . . . It's quite clear that for some of the things that a medical school wishes to accomplish that the minority applicant may have qualities that are superior to those of his classmate. He may be far more likely to go back to [his] community to practice medicine where he's needed...