The participants in this discussion in addition to Ralph Winter, the moderator, include Owen Fiss and Richard Posner, professors of law; Vera Glaser and William Raspberry, newspaper columnists; and Paul Seabury, professor of political science. These specialists address various legal, ethical and practical issues related to the elimination of…

This paper focuses on Title IX, a part of the Federal Education Amendments of 1972, and its effect upon human rights in school sport. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section reviews the purpose of Title IX and the historical developments which led to its establishment. It states that Title IX was enacted to eliminate sexual…

The San Francisco campus of the University of California (UCSF) has as its mission the education of health science professionals. Recruitment areas for campus programs have traditionally been local, state, and national for staff and students, and state, national, and international for faculty. Although efforts have been made over the years to…

Presented in this paper is a discussion of various federal demands and their ramifications concerning nondiscriminatory employment practices in higher education. These demands require that colleges and universities desiring or holding federal contracts eliminate all traces of discriminatory practices with regard to faculty recruitment, hiring,…

Little support is found for the argument that race or social class bias directly affects the dispositions in courts. The implications of this research for understanding the prior pattern of contradictory findings and for the general issue of bias in the juvenile system are discussed. (Author)

Discusses the suit of an unsuccessful white applicant to a state university who discovers that black candidates with lower test scores and grades are being accepted for the entering class for which he has been rejected. His suit against the university alleges a denial of equal protection, contending he was denied admission because of his race.…

Despite demonstrated success of a graduation competency testing policy in Tatnall County (Georgia), a judge ruled that the policy violated due process because the school district could not show that the items on the test were actually taught in the schools. (WD)

Argues that, in dealing with the rights of minorities, the Supreme Court has read the Fourteenth Amendment in a way contrary to the intent of those who framed the Constitution. Available from the South Carolina Law Review, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina 29208; $13.00/year. (IRT)

The DiLeo v Board of Regents of the University of Colorado decision which dismissed an equal protection challenge to a preferential admission program of the University of Colorado School of Law is discussed. Whether the decision is in accord with the general law of standing and alternative remedies is examined. (MLW)

Examines two cases (Bakke and Detroit Police Officers Association vs Young); examines affirmative action programs, reverse discrimination, and the use of "benign" classifications in light of the Fourteenth Amendment and the United States Code. Available from Editorial and Business Office, Detroit College of Law Review, 130 East Elizabeth…

Reprints Marion Wright Edelman's 1975 article in which she argues that resistance to school desegregation means denying African-American children equal protection. Forty years after Brown v Board of Education, suggests that the current debate on educational quality be broadened to include issues of social inequality. (SK)

This introduction to a series of five articles in this issue (vol. 75, no. 3) points up the need for "applied" as well as theoretical consideration of the implications of the DeFunis v. Odegaard case. Discusses policy which legislators, in regulating legal education, may pursue consistently with equal protection. (JT)

Based on the question of whether racial preference and quotas to advance the educational opportunities of certain racial and ethnic minorities are compatible with the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, a case against reference to race is presented in light of the DeFunis v. Odegaard case. (JT)

Examination of wrongs directed at minority youth by the police and the criminal justice system reveals that little has changed with regards to the judicial system's treatment of black youth. Screening and education of officers and judges are offered as partial solutions. (Author/AM)

Examines the DeFunis case and preferential admissions policies, the standard of judicial review in testing these programs under the equal protection clause, the relevance of the educational setting to the scope of judicial review, the goals offered to justify preferential admission, and possible alternative means of accomplishing the goals. (JT)