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...Maryland, where the athletic director and basketball coach resigned after the narcotics-induced death last June of Basketball Star Leonard Bias (who had earned a hefty share of F's in class), will insist that athletes meet all university academic requirements. So said Chancellor John Slaughter last week...
...system of peer review of research articles and grant proposals roots out unconcious bias in scientific findings. But the recent case of research fraud involves something else: conscious bias. The system of self-regulation in the scientific community works well as a watchdog of the former, but simply was not made to deal with the latter...
...light of the death last summer of University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias from cocaine intoxication and the crisis in sports revenue that many smaller schools are facing, the Ivy League philosophy seems to be on the upswing, according to some athletic officials...
...Stockton (Calif.) Unified School District, Computer Educator Jim Greco has hired women computer teachers, screened software for gender bias and put out the word that computers are no longer strictly boys' toys. Says Greco: "We're telling girls that they don't have to be geeks or nerds to like computers...
...only bias present is that the majority of applicants are athletes," she observed...