Word: planked
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After the team's last home win, enthusiastic Dartmouth fans tried to rip down the goalposts. That's kind of tough when your goalposts are two silos with a plank in between...
...more than a generation, Strom Thurmond has been a legend in South Carolina. As Governor in 1948, he indignantly walked out of the Democratic National Convention to protest the civil rights plank in the party platform and ran for President as a Dixiecrat. In the Senate he became the foremost filibusterer against civil rights legislation, declaring that there would never be enough laws on the books or troops in the Army to force the South to integrate. In 1964 he bolted the Democrats for good, joined the Republican Party, and later was part of Richard Nixon's Southern strategy...
Towards the last few weeks of the push for ratification, Michael A. Calabrese '79, former chairman of the convention, and a few insiders in the convention were aware of a North Carolina appeals court decision ruling that a student government minority plank similar to the one in Harvard's student government was unconstitutional. Calabrese did not tell all the other members of the convention of the ruling, because he feared fueling the controversy around the minority plank and he said he thought it would merely confuse students. Epps also knew about the judicial decision, but made no special effort...
Over the summer, the Supreme Court vacated the Fourth District Appeals Court decision that the minority plank in the student government at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ordered the appellate court to reconsider its decision in light of the recent Bakke decision. But the Appeals Court decision is reconsidered, the lower-level decision favorable to the UNC minority plank--made by a district court judge in Durham, North Carolina...
Epps last week suggested that he might seek alternatives to the present minority plank, possibly through his efforts with the Race Relations Committee. "I wonder what particular problem is being addressed by quotas. If the assumption is that whites would not elect blacks, I question whether that is indeed the case." Epps noted that several blacks have been elected heads of House committees, that the president of the Glee Club this year is black, and that the executive editor of the Harvard Independent this year is black...