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There are also those who criticize the BSA fortrying to tackle political issues at all. JeffreyB. Ferguson '85, who wrote his senior thesis onthe BSA at Harvard, says the notion of"difference" that underlies the BSA's agenda isnothing more than a "surface level difference...
...When they get into the substance of their ownBlackness, there's not much there," Ferguson says."They are not much different from the otherstudents in the university in how they think, howthey talk, what they wear...
...Ferguson, who says he's "pretty impatient" withthe BSA, describes the organization as "ventingover nonsense...
When the Court gives Specter a good excuse to adopt what he sees as a politically expedient position, the Supreme Court lives up to its name. But when standing by the Court leads Specter into something problematic (Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson), it is no longer supreme, and Diana Ross heads straight out the door. The Court is reduced to nothing more to him than nine men and women with cool robes...
...guaranteed by the state constitution, plan to appeal. "As we're ending the 20th century, it looks like de facto segregation will become the new segregation," says John Brittain, a University of Connecticut law professor and a lead attorneys for the plaintiffs. "It's 100 years after Plessy v. Ferguson, and we are still separate, still unequal...