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The Michigan Daily-Thursday, March 22, '''9-Page 5
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By JOHN SINKEVICS
University graduate Robert Higgins
lost his third suit in two years against
the University yesterday, after an
Ingham County Circuit Court judge
found his claim for compensation of
"$885,000 and the blessings of God" to
be without me-it.
Higgins' suit against the Regents was
based on his contention that he received
"shabby treatment" from the Univer-
sity's German Department faculty,
from whom he received a "D" in a four-
th-term language course he took in
spring, 1976. Higgins claimed the work
he did in the class was "superior" and
the reason he received a poor grade
was because the instructors would not
acknowledge that a black student could
do such fine work.
HIGGINS GRADUATED in 1976 with
a "D" in German 232 and several mon-
ths later filed his first suit against the
University. The 31-year-old said he
"accepted" the grade so he could get
his diploma.
After his first two suits were
dismissed in Washtenaw County courts
on various technicalities, Higgins filed

a third with the Sta
Lansing.
In yesterday's ac
Brown accepted
Roderick Daane's
mary judgment,"v
was decided on th
submitted, witho
hearing on the m
was defending his
appear in court
decision.
DAANE SAIDI
file a claim on w
granted," indicat
merits which deem
"Brown found t
allowed to in
judgments," saidI
ported by Charlotte
The Horowitz ca
who was dropp
Carolina medical
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Claiming she
against because sh
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reached the Sup
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grading dispute
te Court of Claims in out of the jurisdiction of academic
judgments.
ction, Judge Thomas HIGGINS' suit was thought to be
University Counsel unique because it challenged a specific
motion for "sum- grade which the University had
which meant the case assigned. Higgins, who could not be
e basis of the briefs reached for comment on yesterday's
ut the need of a decision, said earlier of the suit: "I
atter. Higgins, who view my case as fighting a quadruple
own case, failed to prejudice; I'm black, I'm not a lawyer,
to. hear Brown's' I'm suing a state-sponsored institution,
and lastly, the nature of my argument
Higgins' "failure to is different than in similar cases."
hich relief could be Higgins had complained that the
ed the case had no German Department was prejudiced
ed further depate. and unfair in its evaluation of his work.
that courts are not He admitted he was tardy in handing in
terpret academic the required papers for the course, but
Daane. "This is sup- that after receiving an "incomplete" he
e v. Horowitz." finished the written work within the
se involved a student allotted make-up period.
ed from a North Daane said Higgins can still appeal
school because of the decision, but doubted that the for-
cies. mer student would try again.

was discriminated
he was "unattractive
ie case eventually
reme Court where
at courts should keep

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President Jimmy Carter signed up 51 times.
In America, 30 of the people give 100% of all the
blood that's freely donated.
Which means that if only 1 % more people-
maybe you-became donors, it would add
over thirty percent more blood to America's
voluntary bloodstream. Think of it!
But forget arithmetic. Just concentrate
on one word.
The word is Easy.
Giving blood is easy. You hardly feel it (in fact,
some people say they feel better physically after
a blood donation).
And, of course, everybody feels better emotionally.
Because it's a great feeling knowing your one easy blood
donation has helped up to five other people to live.
So how about it, 1% of America? Are you going to lie
down and be counted?
Call your local Red Cross Chapter, oryour community's
volunteer blood bank. We needyou now. .
RedCross iSCounting
on you.

Mayoral
candidates
confront
potholes
(Continued from Page 1)
a bumpy surface since it is not very
pliable and therefore difficult to pat
down. Acknowledging the drawbacks of
the cold patch method, Dunkley ex-
plained it is used to fill potholes until
the entire street can be resurfaced. "It
only takes one good rain and a couple of
cars running over it, and it becomes a
wheel-buster," he said of the cold-
patched potholes. "It's a stop-gap thing
to save wheels and lives in the mean-
time."
Belcher claimed in a recent' cam-
paign letter to have kept last year's
promise by "holding the line in the
city" in terms of taxes, but his op-
ponent accused him of "implying an ac-
tive role when he is actually passive.
Kenworthy explained that all the
mayor did was accept the City Ad-
ministrator's budget recommendations
and that the city's tax increase of 7.5
per cent would have been the same no
matter who was mayor.

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