Word: bane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bane: It seems to me that the spirit behind affirmative action is partly that there are groups in the society who historically have been kept from educational or employment opportunities for discriminatory reasons. And the point where we are now requires not just sitting passively and waiting for discrimination to stop, but indeed, as you say, to take some positive measures to help bring those people...
...Bane: Obviously, I'm going to have to speak to the women's issue here. I think it would be good at some point to try to be more specific about what we are all talking about when we talk about affirmative action in various kinds of situations. Thinking personally about how I deal with admissions committees or arguments that I make to faculties and so on, I do find myself calling attention to the fact that we ought to give some special attention to women: that they have tended to be underrepresented in our student body and our faculty...
Mansfield: In the first place, Professor Bane, I like the pride in your statement, "I had to be better than the men against whom I competed," and that's why I think pride is the essence of this situation, more than justice. Both of you spoke of the need for diversity, and both of you, I think, spoke of equal opportunity. I think what we have to expect in America is that equal opportunity will bring diversity. The way to diversity is through equal opportunity, and not through affirmative action preference. That is our principle, it is essentially a liberal...
...Bane: I'm pleased to hear Professor Mansfield say what he did about admissions policies, because I think the diversity of the student body is the right thing to keep in mind. I think to some extent, some of those same arguments were applied with regard to faculty, that there is an advantage to a university to having Blacks and women among its faculty. In paying attention to affirmative action, we've broadened our recruiting pool, we've made some special efforts to go out and bring people in to be interviewed who might not have been found...
...Bane: It may very well be that groups dillerentially prefer to be lawyers than to be college professors. Well, so be it I don't think we're at the stage yet where we can say that so complacently though, because I think we still do have a history to get over. But I do think that the place where the University really should be worrying the most about the problem is at the level of educating the--students for example, making sure that the women are at least encouraged to take some math courses...