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There they asked for an injunction barring any university action against them. Instead, last week they got a dressing down from Judge Marvin Frankel. Like an exasperated teacher correcting careless students back on the campus, the former Columbia law professor dismissed the legal arguments as "a whole series of errors . . . equivocal legalisms . . . sprawling verbosities . . . gross flaws . . . baroque rhetoric...
...judge saw it, the students ran into fatal trouble on the very "threshold" issue: he was not convinced that his court had jurisdiction, despite the students' claim that the university was an agent of the state. Frankel agreed that some Government money helped to support the university, but that "is not enough to make the recipient an instrumentality of government," he said. "Nothing supports the thesis that university 'education' as such is a 'state action...
...Sense. Although he left the way open for the students to seek further evidence to support their case and to plead again for an injunction, Frankel offered them little hope of success. One by one, he demolished their arguments. The Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination would not be violated by disciplinary hearings, he said. There was no requirement to say anything at the hearings. Nor should the hearings be delayed until after any criminal proceedings. "A motor-vehicles commissioner, authorized to suspend a driver's license for speeding, need not wait for the months or years...
...PETER FRANKEL Melbourne, Australia...
Wicker rushed down from New Hampshire, where he was covering the primary campaigns, to protest the outsider's appointment. Reston rushed up from Washington. Everyone now insists that resignations were never threatened, but the danger of losing Reston, Wicker and White House Correspondent Max Frankel was implicit. Top journalistic talent is hard to find these days, and the loss of such stars was too much to risk. Punch Sulzberger capitulated, agreed to reverse his decision. Greenfield resigned, shook hands all round and walked out of the Times without even bothering to clean out his desk. Behind him he left...