Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Emerson Hall on the weekend proclaimed a goal at once more limited and more all-encompassing than the objectives of the sweatshop workers in 1908--the creation of a women's studies concentration at Harvard as part of a general movement toward eliminating what the call the white male bias found in the structural and academic aspects of the university and country...
...Women's Studies concentration is only the immediate aim of the group, which wants to work for the elimination of bias against women and minority groups throughout the University. All Harvard departments, Orgel says, are biased in a white male way. Women's Studies might be a first step toward "raising the consciousness" of the rest of the University...
...defense and the prosecution may excluded up to 48 jurors each in addition to those the Judge excuses for possible bias...
Frye's faith in the imagination and his rejection of a priori beliefs suggest his liberal bias towards processes over ends. That bias is strikingly in evidence in two of the essays in Spiritus Mundi, both of which condemn student radicals of the 1960s for their attack on educational processes. In "The University and the Personal Life," Frye places student unrest in the tradition of American anarchism, categorizing it primarily as a religious quest rather than a social movement. What he objects to most is the anti-intellectualism of the protesters, their refusal to appeal to "reason or experience...
This is a broad definition--one that has raised the ire of union officials, who fear the University may be planning to hire a commercial management firm of the sort that frequently takes a pro-management bias in dealing with labor disputes. Yet despite the union's concern, Powers will not further characterize the type of organization the University will engage--despite the fact that the union must also approve its choice before negotiations can resume...