Students clamored to get a seat on a chartered bus to Harlem for today’s discussion. The bus filled yesterday, leaving students to find other ways to get to New York City.

“Professor Ogletree is a champion, and everyone at the law school is interested in what he thinks about the issue of reparations” said HLS first-year Louis E. Sterling, who will be traveling to Harlem today.

Bryan Carter, a first-year at HLS, said that he is looking forward to hearing Cochrane and Ogletree speak on reparations.

“As legal experts, they add a lot of credibility to the issue of reparations,” he said.

“Race is still something that is yet to be openly discussed. I am eager to see this issue put onto the table,” Carter said.

But not everyone is so enthusiastic about the latest suit.

“I think these are just ill-will suits,” reparations opponent David Horowitz said.

“I just have no sympathy for these briefs,” he added. “This Reparations Coordinating Committee is just an organization to pour salt in the American wound of the past.”

But Horowitz added that having Harvard’s name on the brief might make it more successful.

“Because Ogletree is black and because it is Harvard and because he has the support of civil rights organizations, peoples’ normal reactions to this brief will be self-suppressed, and people will be afraid to come out against it.”

—Staff writer Lauren A.E. Schuker can be reached at schuker@fas.harvard.edu.