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Some professors praise Bok's system of reading tenure candidates' work carefully, and then referring their cases to special ad hoc committees. These professors say that Bok's final decisions are relatively free of bias, even though they may be unpopular...
...sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson and Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. The reason for such interest, says Clark's Sommers, is that liberals as well as conservatives now worry about an "environment of intimidation" that has forced some professors to tape their lectures as a safeguard against bias charges. "It's the opposite," she says, "of what a university should...
...combative political agenda or outlandish views of the nation's culture and values. At Duke University in North Carolina, an English-department course uses plays and films to pursue the theme that organized crime "is a metaphor for American business as usual." Another Duke offering condemns a heterosexual bias in traditional Western literature; its professor has written about such topics as "Jane Austen and the masturbating girl...
...last week's decision, however, Justice Blackmun found the discriminatory nature of the policy to be a more palpable danger. "The bias in Johnson Controls' policy is obvious," he wrote. "Fertile men, but not fertile women, are given a choice as to whether they wish to risk their reproductive health for a particular job." Blackmun was supported by Justices Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O'Connor, John Paul Stevens and David Souter, who as the newest member of the court was weighing in with his first significant vote on a women's rights issue...
...over weight discrimination in the workplace is far from over, however. Studies indicate that fat bias cuts a wide swath through U.S. industry, from executives to waitresses. And in most cases, no laws are broken. The problem is especially acute in service industries, where employees meet the public. According to Esther Rothblum, a psychology professor at the University of Vermont, "If two people, one fat and one thin, walk into a company with the same qualifications, the heavier one will get a more negative reception...