Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have felt the housing bias even in my interactions with people during the two days before break. Just like any other day, I met new people while eating in Annenberg. But all discussions centered around housing. Those declaring affiliation to Kirkland or even Eliot held my attention as future neighbors. Quadlings, one the other hand, didn't even seem worth getting to know as I can't imagine trudging down Garden Street on a cold, rainy...
There is, of course, still a lot to be done. In spite of their best efforts, glaring instances of institutional bias remain. A case in point is The Crimson's recent coverage of the Quad. No less than eight different pieces in the 10 days leading up to Spring Break splashed all over the paper--front page, opinions, FM--painted the Quad as a miserable back-of-beyond hellhole, which first-years should resort to voodoo rituals to avoid. There was not one article in defense of the Quad to balance this barrage. I am told that there are many...
Still, Saar and others argue that Walker's tremendous success in a predominately white art establishment demonstrates an insidious bias on the part of curators and collectors who embrace artists willing to "sell themselves down the river." While it may be true that many of today's well-known black artists, including David Hammons, Carrie Mae Weems and Glenn Ligon, all engage powerful stereotypes, they should be considered as part of a broader artistic trend...
...homosexuality is not the only factor, the Justice said. Same-sex bias might spring from "general hostility" to one's own gender. And motivations aside, it's enough to show that the accused "treated members of both sexes in a mixed-sex workplace" differently. Says UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh: "If you can show that they would never do this sort of thing to a woman, that's enough...
TIME's story on the Hollywood Free World Association v. the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals indicates no editorial preference for either organization but reveals in comic style an anti-Hollywood bias. We film-makers realize our community is a gorgeous subject for satire. We grant, or anyway most of us do, that we are the world's funniest people. You can write more jokes about us than you can about plumbers, undertakers or Fuller brush salesmen. Hollywood is guilty of deliberate withdrawal from the living world. It seeks to entertain, and we suspect that...