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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, Mr. Emmerich's editorial contains the pretense that The Crimson is the sustaining font of information for Harvard students. While honoring your editorial privilege, I wonder whether your waters are polluted with a bias that excludes many significant issues while distoring students perceptions and understandings of events. Victor Fillippini '80 CUE Representative [Spring 1978] ERG Representative, South House[1978] ERG Representative, Yard/Union Dorms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Harvard: Behind Closed Doors" | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

BRODEUR'S BOOK IS downright frightening. With a chilling absence of tone or bias, Brodeur shows that microwaves have occupied a place in American life since the beginning of the century, without commanding any kind of public awareness or concern about their effect on life or the environment...

Author: By David Dahlquist, | Title: The Microwave War | 2/2/1978 | See Source »

...emotionally (and not just academically) caught up in the phenomenon he was researching. The results were unexpected. What had begun as a survey of the various Eastern religious organizations over the country at large turned into more of an autobiographical essay. Cox moved from bending-over-backwards-to-avoid-bias against what he initially considered to be "inward" and "socially passive" philosophies (this stance, Cox wryly admits, was "tepid, commendably moderate, and, above all, dull"). From this position, he turned to discussing the impact on individuals of the "New Orientalism," the historical and modern-day forces within the American systems...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Benares on the Charles | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

...There seems to be an implicit bias in question number seven," Charles M. Judd, assistant professor of psychology, said yesterday. He added that the item "clearly" implied that "limited breakfast is superior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critics Note Bias In CHUL Survey | 1/13/1978 | See Source »

...sections, as well as an overall figure. The Otis-Lennon, a group test, measures "general intelligence." (Sample question from the version for ten-year-olds: "What is the opposite of 'easy'?") The Culture Fair Intelligence Test concentrates more on the interpretation of diagrams; to avoid any cultural bias inherent in language, it employs no verbal questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Ever Became of Geniuses? | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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