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...House Bias...
Prior to the Grove City ruling Title IX had been one the most effective federal measures against sex-discrimination, eliminating sexual bias in a vast number of educational institutions. The law has been crucial in the development of women's amatuer athletics; female athletes at the 1984 Olympics cited the law as crucial to the success of the U.S. team...
Creating a separate discipline for the study of the role of women in history may not get rid of the male bias. As the U.S. Supreme Court has noted in another context, separate is rarely ever equal...
...goal is especially inapplicable to the academic disciplines it targets, the social sciences. The social sciences occupy a hazy realm of interpretation and bias. The verifiable accuracy demanded by AIA is as foreign to the social sciences as subjective interpretation is to basic algebra. We can assert--to take a nice, safe example--that Marx formulated his theories in the mid-nineteenth century; but beyond that, we can say little without provoking objections from a dozen different academic factions with far better credentials than those...
Clearly, AIA considers students blind to bias and in danger of swallowing dogma. This premise, a rather pessimistic assessment, throws AIA into a contradictory position. In its inquisition of inaccurate professors, AIA relies on tips called in by student "reporters". AIA places sufficient confidence in its student reports to use them as a basis for questioning professors on their abilities and for publishing indictments. Apparently, these super-student "reporters" see through what is for others an impenetrable haze of liberal bias...