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...Gulf region. The letter was carefully written, deeply felt and widely supported in Harvard's social science arena, and I am very dismayed that The Crimson toyed with, delayed and finally opted not to print it. For the sake of responsible and representative journalism, please struggle to temper your bias in the future. Janet Levoff Staff Member Department of Psychology
...look back on AWARE (Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism) Week, we should heed the call to educate one another about diversity and fight prejudice on a daily basis. "Demeaning" remarks based on racial and ethnic bias should be questioned, strongly challenged and exposed for their absurdity. With such vigilance, hate speech rules will be unnecessary...
...issues whose importance transcend his feud with one particular newspaper. According to Brustein, the insistence on playing a "numbers game" with minority representation obstructs the central purpose of a cultural organization, to provide quality artistic works. However, others insist that past prejudice has infused cultural establishments with an instinctive bias against non-Western works. This deficiency needs to be erased through an increased infusion of minorities, and number counting is an appropriate way of measuring the success of this program...
Scientists will point out that almost every one of the program's premises is subject to debate, from its assumption that life must be based on carbon (rather than, say, silicon) to its noticeable bias against nuclear energy. The program also assumes that technology always advances and that intelligence always confers an evolutionary advantage. "We may be flattering ourselves," says the program's designer, Will Wright...
...arguments the department could profer for this Anglophilic bias are rooted in the classical tradition. Undoubtedly, there is a greater tradition of British literature. British works roughly date from the 14th century. Scholars might argue that a truly American voice does not emerge until the latter half of the 18th, or early 19th century...