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...following excerpts are from a Crimson roundtable on affirmative action held last week with Mary Jo Bane, associate professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Meldon Hollis, administrative aide in Harvard's affirmative action office, and Harvey C. Mansfield '53, professor of Government. Mark E. Feinberg, Laura E. Gomez, and Jonathan S. Sapers moderated the discussion...
...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...
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