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...Reagan campaign has just completed a study of the youth vote and has decided to schedule more campus appearances in order to take greater advantage of his surprising popularity. On a swing through the Midwest last week, Reagan was accorded a reception by 2,000 students at Ohio's Bowling Green State University that his spokesman described as "the most enthusiastic we have ever encountered." Said Reagan, to earsplitting applause: "You know, your generation is really something. You've made love of country fashionable again...
...step process, and not a leap," says University of Chicago Law School Professor Philip Kurland. Agrees A.E. Dick Howard, a professor of law at the University of Virginia: "The 1984 Burger Court may be the conservative counterpart of the 1962 Warren Court-the year it turned the corner. A swing to the right has been in the works for a decade, but the momentum has quickened in the most recent term." Even several of the Brethren acknowledge the shift. Last month Justice Harry Blackmun told a private gathering at the Cosmos Club in Washington, B.C., that...
...more than ten years, has now served twelve. Shy and gentlemanly, a former partner in an old-line Richmond law firm, he is personally conservative but not an ideologue. He has tried to be a careful and fair balancer of competing concerns. It was Powell who wrote the swing opinion striking down quotas but upholding affirmative action in the Bakke decision...
...argument that hissing and heckling are themselves viable expressions of speech which deserve protection, Bok shows his fundamentally lawyerly approach to the issue by responding with the old chestnut, "'Your freedom to swing your fist stops at the point of my nose.' . . . If persons opposed to a speaker's policies wish to publicize that fact, they can do so in various ways that will not interfere with the lights of the speaker and the audience," such as peaceful picketing, petitions, or leafletting...
...Bradford Swing, an assistant to the dean of the College who provides summer housing advice for transfer students and visiting undergraduates, called the number of new students "a sizable one." He said also that the University makes it clear that transfers are responsible for finding their own housing while they wait for on-campus openings...