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...There are those who insist that I should seek authority from the General Assembly to padlock and police any school threatened with the imminence of integration,' said he. "The assembly cannot confer such authority . . . The police power cannot be asserted to thwart or override the decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, state or federal . . . No fair-minded person would be so unreasonable as to seek to hold me responsible for failure to exercise the powers which the state is powerless to bestow...
...alone and writing in his lawbook-lined study for almost two days, had made his decision, and he stood by it. Almond quietly lined up Byrd-organization moderates and others, quietly defied the Byrd leadership, warned the extremists that he would have to veto any slapdash measures designed to thwart the courts...
Like nine other states since the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation decision, Alabama enacted a pupil-placement law which by common agreement was designed to thwart integration. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Alabama's law-on its face-and provoked hopeful Southern punditry about having finally found a legal way around integration. The punditry was premature...
Spector characterized this type of attitude as "highly deplorable, and threatening to thwart interest in rocketry." He complained that the Society was being "treated like a bunch of high school boys playing with fireworks...
...House Masters, either because they are afraid their Houses will collapse if every student is not within the walls or because they do not take desires of students seriously, now want to thwart this lucky coincidence. Mr. Perkins insists that the policy is "striking at the roots of the House system." Clearly the system has not been ruined so far, and while the University is committed to the system a veritable handful of students living around the Square will not make any difference. Also, very often it is just the students who like the Houses least who do the Houses...