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Court decisions have complicated a controversy that last spring centered on the minority plank in the constitution. As a result of the Bakke case, the Supreme Court this summer ordered a North Carolina appeals court to reconsider a decision banning the use of such minority planks...
...Bakke decision has complicated a controversy that last spring centered on the minority plank in the constitution. As a result of the Bakke case, the Supreme Court this summer ordered a North Carolina appeals court to reconsider a decision banning the use of such minority planks. The minority plank, which allots one seat in the Student Assembly for a representative from each of five Harvard minority organizations, evoked an unexpected amount of controvery last spring...
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...