Word: bias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Admittedly there were some amusing moments in the last three quarters: the announcer's pro-Yale bias and inability to pronounce Tsitsos ("See-tus") and Harvard's comical attempt at a reverse with both Milt Holt and Stoeckel in the backfield...
...afternoon was a bore. Most Harvard-Yale games (or Yale-Harvard depending on your bias) go down to the last minute, not in the first. Witness Harvard's 29-29 victory in 1968: the Crimson scored 16 points in 42 seconds to win. Saturday Yale scored two touchdowns within 25 seconds, but who cares in a 35-0 game, especially when they do it in the second quarter. Even this newspaper's inevitable 23-2 victories are more exciting...
Meanwhile, local NOW groups in California are pressuring the state's educational authorities to comply with a new law that forbids California public schools to use any instructional materials containing any sex bias. NOW is working as part of a task force reviewing textbooks that the state board of education will purchase for use next year. Books that contain sexual stereotyping will be automatically rejected...
With the same irreverence, Sinclair looks upon the ideological bias of the university and speaks without much gentleness or kindness of the so-called "open market of ideas." Course-study at Harvard, he observes, is governed by "class-ignorance, class-fear (and) class-repression." Harvard "sets forth statistics" to confirm that it is not a rich man's school. Yet the character of its accepted courses--as much that which is kept out as that which has been retained--reflects the wishes of its Overseers. The revolutionary struggles of the present decade, he observes, are not offered to the students...
...endorsed by their colleges, can the Office pursue their case. Other universities should follow Harvard's example and endorse women on the same basis as men. And Mr. Barber should refrain from efforts to squash the women's applications before they reach the state committees. Only when its sexual bias has been removed will the Rhodes scholarship be able to embody the ideals on which it was founded...