Word: weber
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...third time in two years, the Supreme Court is deciding a major reverse discrimination claim. The issue this time is not the permissibility of racial quotas for professional school admissions (as in the Bakke decision of 1978) or of company job-training programs (as in last summer's Weber ruling), but of a congressional award of a share of federally financed local public works contracts to minority-controlled businesses. The case, on which the nine high court Justices heard oral arguments last week, should help to further define the still murky limits to which affirmative-action programs...
...principle, affirmative action has four apparently solid votes on the court, at least if Bakke and Weber are a guide: Justices Brennan, Marshall, White and Blackmun. The decisive fifth vote might depend on the particular facts of this case. Constitutional Scholar Laurence Tribe thinks this vote could be attracted by the fact that the set-aside is "more of a carrot than a stick" to help minorities...
...Crimson clinched the meet, however, when Eric Schuler and Bruce Weber finished two-three in the two-mile. The thinclads garnered the remaining points by winning both relays...
...direction of John Posner, who's led the HGSP orchestra out of its mid-'70s doldrums. The theater walls are peeling a bit this year, but the Agassiz still drops this orchestra endearingly in the audience's lap. Too bad the players read the Sunday Times or Weber when they're not actually playing...
...mile, Eric Schuler and Bruce Weber placed second and third behind Murphy to engineer the fourth Crimson sweep of the day in the final individual event...