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Burger began by asking Potter Stewart to announce a routine decision on a pensions benefit case, then announced a minor decision himself. Finally it came, third on the list: Case No. 76-811. Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke. As a hush enveloped the courtroom, Associate Justice Lewis Powell, a frail, bespectacled Virginian, began to speak in an emotionless monotone: "Perhaps no case in my memory has had so much media coverage. We speak today with a notable lack of unanimity. I will try to explain how we divided...
...scholarly, wistful and widely respected for his legal acumen, he agreed in part with two different groups within the court. He accepted a portion of the opinion of the four Justices who upheld the California Supreme Court decision in favor of Bakke: Burger, William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens and Potter Stewart. He also sided in part with the four Justices who decided against Bakke: William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall and Byron White. He thus ended by writing the critical opinion for a sharply divided court...
Ethics courses may not make any difference in students' lives anyway. As Ralph B. Potter, professor of Social Ethics at the Div School, says, it is difficult to judge whether ethics can be taught at all. "Courses are great for disseminating ideas, he says, "but ethics must be assimilated through reflection. We cannot suggest to the public that we are going to turn out better people, for there is a mystery to what makes the ideas happen in people's lives...
...Perhaps Potter is right, and ethics cannot be taught, but Harvard seems to have accepted that challenge nonetheless...
Renee Richards and Barbie Potter fell to Janet Newberry and Kristien Shaw, 6-3, 6-4, in doubles action. Evonne Goolagong and Betty Stove topped Latham and Helena Anliot...