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Epps said, however, that even though UNC is a state university, it appears that Harvard will be affected by the ruling because the University receives federal funds...
...Fourth U.S. Court of Appeals ruled last year that a clause in the student government constitution at the University of North Carolina (UNC) designed to ensure that black students were adequately represented "blatantly fouls the letter and the spirit of both the Civil Rights Acts and the Fourteenth Amendment." The ruling overturned a district court decision in favor of the minority clause...
...president of UNC has appealed the decision to the United States Supreme Court. The case is on the Supreme Court docket and will probably go before the court this year, Hugh J. Beard Jr., a Charlotte, N.C. lawyer and main plaintiff to the original appeal, said yesterday...
Beard was active in the UNC student government as an undergraduate and opposed the student government when it passed the special minority clause. "When I argued it as an undergraduate I lost. I took it to court years later and won," Beard said, adding he was unsure how the Supreme Court would rule on the decision...
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