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Corporation member and Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky criticized Harvard Watch saying that it reminded him of Accuracy in Academia, a conservative organization which monitors professors they consider to have a liberal bias...

Author: By Julian C. Baker, | Title: Nader Plan To Monitor Harvard Criticized | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

...Harvard don't perceive that a problem exists--"No, not at Harvard"--but as both the remarks of my friend--whose attitude is sadly not at all that atypical--and the uproar a Women's Studies proposal has generated demonstrate, we are living in a community of dangerous subliminal bias. This conclusion, then, is my motivation for supporting a women's studies concentration. Contrary to what Mansfield has implied, I believe that there does exist a separate discipline encompassing the history, psychology, literature, etc. of women that current courses do not adequately cover. Women are, in fact, a community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Studies | 10/28/1986 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 10/24/1986 | See Source »

Despite the backlash, many editors and law-enforcement officials regard the stories as long overdue. Says Chicago Tribune Editor James Squires: "Washington discovered the problem when Len Bias, a University of Maryland basketball star, died of an overdose. The rest of the country has been concerned for a long time." New York Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal asserts, "This is not a press-created problem, nor a crisis made by politicians. Drugs are here." Los Angeles County District Attorney Ira Reiner argues, "The problem seems overreported only because it was massively underreported before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Reporting the Drug Problem | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

These drugs kill people; they destroy lives and families. But on the same day that University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died from a cocaine over-dose, countless more Americans abused alcohol. Some of those people died, others brought about the deaths of others. By suggesting that substance abuse flourishes largely among a segment of the population outside the mainstream, Reagan arms himself with painlessly-acquired political capital, yet ultimately misrepresents the problem...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Drug War Games | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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