The Michigan Daily-Thursday, March 22, '''9-Page 5 A Public Service of This Newspaper & The Advertising CouncilFesu ormer studentoses thir suit* ef P~ A nc Lie down and b4 r wuntta. against 'U' over 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 academic deficien Claiming she against because sh 4and Jewish," th reached the Sup justices decided th 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 - President Jimmy Carter signed up 51 times. 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