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Joshua H. Henkin's editorial of October 30, constitutes the beginning of an articulate rebuttal to Washington columnist Richard Cohen's assault on the individual rights of Blacks. At issue is the "ethical dilemma" faced by a Washington, D.C. jewelry store owner who wonders whether to admit a young Black man at the front-door buzzer. Henkin defends the rights of the individual not to be judged by his color, but he misses the preeminent point to be made here...
...Though Henkin does say that the individual rights of Blacks should be protected, he implies that Blacks as a group are victims of discrimination because they have not "made it" in white middle-class society. This assertion, I believe, is untrue. I propose that the majority of Blacks in this country are not members of the underclass. Not only are most Black people not poor, but most poor people are not Black...
With just over two years left in the Reagan Administration, the battle is likely to intensify. "Sometime in the 1930s we recognized that the Supreme Court is the final interpreter of the Constitution," says Columbia University Law Professor Louis Henkin. "Mr. Meese is trying to change the system % accepted by the American people." But times change, counters Eastland, and so does the court majority. "We're in a constitutional era where decision after decision is very close. It is a period of considerable ferment." Ferment indeed. "Mr. Meese must sit up nights thinking 'I haven't provoked the legal profession...
News Editor for This Issue: Kristen A. Goss '87 Night Editors: Julie L. Belcove '89 Laurie M. Grossman '89 Joseph F Kahn '87 Tommy J. Winslow '87 Editorial Editor: Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Copy Editor: Joshua H. Henkin '87 Features Editor: Thomas J. Winslow '87 Photo Editor: Wan Joon Kim '87 Sports Editor: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Business Editor: Brent J. Martin...
...Copaken '88 of Adams House and Potomac, Md.; Joseph K. Choo '89 of Weld Hall and Lexington; Miles F. Ehrlich '87 of Quincy House and Sacramento, Calif.; Nathan W. Eigerman '88 of Dudley House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; David Greene '89 of Hurlbut Hall and Spring Valley, N.Y.; Josh H. Henkin '87 of Quincy House and New York, N.Y.; Jennifer M. O'Connor of Eliot House and Wellesley; David Patent '88 Cabot House and Missoula, Mont.; Ellen R. Pinchuk '88 of Mather House and Tarzana, Calif.; Peter D. Sagal '87 of Quincy House and Berkeley Heights, N.J.; Don W. Sung...