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...Equal. The decision was written by one of President Nixon's own appointees: Chief Justice Warren Burger. His most quotable passages seemed to acknowledge, but to dismiss Nixon's defense of neighborhood schools. "All things being equal, with no history of discrimination," Burger wrote, "it might well be desirable to assign pupils to schools nearest their homes. But all things are not equal in a system that has been deliberately constructed and maintained to enforce racial segregation. The remedy may be administratively awkward, inconvenient and even bizarre and may impose burdens on some; but all awkwardness and inconvenience...
...question which has arisen is that of how Kirp decided to dismiss five attorneys on the basis of output when four of the five had been at the Center for barely four months. All but Arons arrived in September...
After five staff meetings, Kirp made his decision to dismiss the five lawyers, and only one meeting-at which Krip explained his action-has been held since...
...occupy the university computer center. They did, sparking hours of disturbances during which some student conservatives were beaten and two youths were wounded by gunfire. As a result, President Lyman suspended Franklin from all professorial duties (with pay, because of university regulations) and recommended that the advisory board dismiss him. The university also sought a court injunction barring the professor and certain of his followers from the campus...
...memorandum said that under the program over 8000 assassinations had been carried out in 1968 and 1969. Weltner feels that fear of disclosure by the CIA witnesses led the court martial to dismiss the case...