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Kopit says, "it was a bit harder for someone who was Jewish to get into the Pudding. I think there was some kind of bias, but not a strong...
...elsewhere--over how to punish offenders. An administrator who argues, as Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky did two years ago, that the nature of the punishment meted out to a convicted sexual harasser should not be revealed to the harassment victim is expressing something deeper than just paternalistic bias. To some extent, he is also implying that harassment is somehow "natural"--a weakness which the faculty member has succumbed to, but which should not be allowed to ruin his career or otherwise affect the past of his life. Dzeich and Weiner show how the pervasive myths about college women...
...promote a meaningful exchange of views between the community and the Corporation. In characterizing the 15 or so people who felt strongly enough about the issue to sleep out in the cold as a beer-swilling mob is not only inaccurate reporting, but shows plainly that, for Mr. Howe, bias is more important than evidence. Mr. Howe, to my knowledge, was not at the scene of the Encampment and neither was his presence noted the next morning. Even an editorialist should get his facts straight...
...approach, however, is that he is very willing to "brand the divestiture movement as one that doesn't deserve consideration" because of its "shrill posturing." Although Mr. Howe charges that most of the divestment proponents' arguments are ad hominem, his own arguments aren't exactly free of that bias either. If Mr. Howe were really concerned about the issue, he would find out more about the arguments for and against divestment (both of which have been made quite public). Instead, he attacks the people who are in favor of divestment, letting all the relevant issues fall by the wayside. Because...
...described his unhappy early life in Heritage, an autobiography masked as a novel. Rebecca West (1892-1983) blocked its publication in England, and in a new introduction to a paperback reissue of Heritage, the author bitterly recalls "my mother's passionate desire to do me harm." Given this bias, one could hardly expect a dispassionate recollection of times past. But H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life is more than the defense of a neglected author. It is a kind of intellectual's Mommie Dearest, a serious chronicle that uses Rebecca West as a counterweight to raise the reputation...