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als cn of the Ten Court hears discrimination orals THE BATTALION Page 5 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1977 ashingtonQ obert CIijs d delay (lie () Sram tivoi omeniej ■ote Preside halt such ' and Rep, asked Chi! before General Jd 'fnt a notet be budget we have i - of marijui narcotics ly if the U, oves its aits I told Chast §glers’ Texas at the ith for the pi lount was pi ?reent oftli the state. >y, Housto okesman, ■ct only the he entire« w we have e no further 1 to ort on the on. Theiep West Texas I on deep :dp produce ps, face the to nonirrigi gas accounti ,• fanning« handle. /e for daii said farmen cuts pertho before thej said this yti oin $1 onserve wall 11s some two, skippii pairs. He isumption I i ificantly a the Collegei , Tech Uni" it ion sorghn educed seat growno decrease 1 respective! NEL STEREO A/ARS :55 RYOR IN .IGHTNING :40 xl ONE - A WINNER :30 United Press International WASHINGTON — Allan Bakke’s lawyer told the Supitnu* Court Wednesday the University of California violated the Constitution in denying him admission to its medical school, discriminating against him because be is white. Hut Archibald Cox, the univer sity s lawy er, and Solicitor Cenoral Wade MeCree, presenting the fed- ral government’s side in the closely matched “reverse discrimination case, argued that professional schools must not be blind to race if the nation is to remedy past dis crimination. Cox and MeCree, disagreed sharply — MeCree declaring that to be blind to race* today is to be blind to reality. " Attorney Reynold Colvin, repre- nting the 37-year-old twiee- rejccted white candidate for the University of California’s Medical School at Davis, said the university was wrong in setting aside 16 of KM) admissions slots for members of minorities. Colvin, a lawyer from San Fran cisco, said the' university was indulg ing in “broad generalizations w hen it set aside the 16 spots for minority' students. It is not true, he said, that all members of a given race have the same economic and educational dis advantage's. Justice Thurgood Marshall, the court s only black, asked Colvin il lie would he making the same argu ment if only one slot had been re served. ‘‘Numbers are unimportant, Colvin said. “You are arguing about keeping somebody out and the other side is talking about getting somebody in. It depends on how you look at it, Marshall remarked. Colvin told the court the factual circumstances of the ease are v itally important. Normally, if we have a goal we select a standard and above that standard we admit people,” he said. It is precisely the opposite here. Here the number is chosen and the number is filled regardless of the standard. Justice John Paul Stevens asked Colvin if he disagreed with the uni versity that all 16 minority students were qualified to proceed with a medical education. We simply say there is nothing to say they were qualified, Colvin replied. “Taking the university s own standard (of a grade average of 2.5 or above) they didn’t measure up.” Civil rights and other groups have demonstrated in the nation's capital in opposition to Bakke’s conten tions, hut only a handful showed up outside the court building Wednes day. They were far outnumbered by' the curious who stood in a long line tor a chance to get inside briefly dur ing the arguments which ran for nearly two hours. The justices will weigh the argu ments and decide the case by' writ ten opinion some time liefbre the court term ends in June. Colvin told the iustices the uni versity “has been quota happy. Justice William Rehnquist in quired, What if the university said We just want to increase the number of minority doctors’?” To the extent that the preference is based on race, we believe it is un constitutional,'' Colvin replied. MeCree told the court the inter est of the United States stems from the many programs of Congress and the executive branch that take race into account or encourage its con sideration in voluntary programs. Chief Justice Warren Burger asked MeCree if the record showed the university had engaged in any discriminatory conduct. MeCree said it did not, but that the justices must be aware of much discrimination in California — for instance in the schools of Los Angeles, Pasadena and San Fran cisco. He said possibly 40 percent of the black students in California spent part of their growing years in states where segregation was required bv law before the high court s 1954 school desegregation decision. “Do you include conditions out side the state of California? Burger asked. “I would include conduct in the entire nation, MeCree replied. “We suggest that it is not enough to look at visible wounds ... he told the justices, “because the very identification by race it itself a hand icap. Service for freshman held Friday Services for 18-year-old Claudia Kay Cunningham, freshman biol ogy major at Texas A&M University, will be held Friday Oct. 14 at First United Methodist Church in Arlington. She died Tuesday in Houston Methodist Hospital from injuries received in a local traffic accident Oct. 2. Cunningham is the second student fatality of the new academic year. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cunningham. 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