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LIKE any case of unfair treatment against a minority group, the only way to completely eradicate bias against gays and lesbians is education. The Hampton controversy has one bright spot--it has received nationwide media coverage, showing the country the daily ordeal gays and lesbians must endure in their ordinary lives...
...also clear that no matter how perfect the admissions process is, unconscious bias and subjective opinions of individuals in the Admissions Office will still play a part. Improvements can always be made. But if the Admissions Office deliberately employed unfair practices in selecting applicants, we believe that we would be aware of them through our close communication with the people within the system. We can assure the Harvard community that if there were discriminatory practices against Asian American applicants in the Admissions Office, we certainly would be one of the first to investigate and speak...
...code treats stock profits is another plus for LBOs. Corporate earnings are taxed twice: they are first paid to stockholders out of a company's after-tax profits, and the shareholder then pays taxes on the dividends. "There is no question that our tax laws have a bias toward debt that must be rectified," says a top congressional aide...
HRDC President Fouad S. Onbargi '89, who acknowledges the club's bias toward non-musicals, credits the show's director Adam J. Fratto '90, with the ideas that succeeded in passing the club's highly competitive process for selecting its shows...
...specific question before the Supreme Court is a technical one, but it may crucially affect the future of discrimination cases, especially those involving gender bias. In the past it has usually been up to the plaintiff to prove that an employer was guilty of discrimination. Two lower courts found that Hopkins had not proved conscious discrimination by Price Waterhouse. But they also found that the promotion system was so infected with biased notions about women that the burden of proof should be shifted to the firm to compel it to show that stereotypes played no role in the decision...