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...power of knowledge in the minds of a few men. Have none of the editors read enough in the social sciences to understand alternative approaches to the study of man's history and behavior? The editors should examine whether their search for broad, interdisciplinary papers is itself a bias rather than a generosity. After all, easily read papers are themselves part of the comfortable familiar intellectual routine at this university that guards against change through defamiliarizing those brains here that sit around like apartment pets...
Jackson has said that she regrets having to sue Harvard, but she added that she feels an obligation to speak to help correct an institutional bias...
...Advocates Reject Bias Charge...
...charge of bias is "Ridiculous," counters Susan E. Keller, a second-year student with self-professed CLS leanings. "I haven't been in a law school class without a political slant. You can't teach law neutrally," she says. Keller believes that conservative professors may claim to be neutral, but they nonetheless slant their classes to present a view that "the status quo is legitimate." Ail classes are political, she says--and this is of course one of the CLS tenets...
Nixon bitterly denounces antiwar activists, intellectuals, liberals and especially the press, whom he collectively accuses of bias, hypocrisy and hoping the Communists would win. He says of the war, "It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." Yet Nixon admits that Watergate and his own unpopularity undercut his appeals for military aid to South Viet...