Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Austin So's letter, "Attack the Real Problems, Not Just the SAT" (Crimson, May 21), rejected best bias as an adequate explanation for the fact that SAT scores of African American students are, on average, lower than those of white students. Instead, he attributes an imaginary lack of "respect for education" to the African-American students community. This view is insulting representing an unfounded critique of African-American Cultural values. It is also dangerous. So exemplifies the backward thinking that has plunged the American public school system into its current situation...
...very allegations he wants to suppress. The accused journalist may win in court -- for First Amendment reasons, the rules are tilted in favor of the press -- but is less than certain of being vindicated. Often, a story that provokes a suit is legally defensible yet morally tainted by bias, animus or procedural lapses; the trial turns into a lesson in press ethics, with the reporter as the flustered pupil...
...longer the naive ideologue I once was. The color-blind society is still far, far away--note the riot at South Boston High School earlier this month. Mother Earth has been sentenced to death by overzealotry from the left and overreaction from the right. And, regrettably, some sort of bias is unavoidable...
...used to being part of a liberal minority in high school; it was easy to cry foul and charge conservative bias. At Harvard, where liberals abound, the bias slants distinctly the other way. Begrudgingly, I concede this truth to Peninsula. In the De Scopulo section of their latest issue ("Just Joshing"), they report that Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 chose to overlook first-year Joshua Oppenheimer's removal of AALARM posters from a University bulletin board...
...sure, if you asked, the Lord High Poobahs of Peninsula would be deliriously happy to point out similar instances of University bias...