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...pans" the grade of a student who said she was sexually harassed the previous semester by the poet Derek Walcott, a visiting professor in the English Department. It was reportedly the first time the College has changed a letter grade to pass/fail because of a professor's possible bias in determining the grade...
...loan has raised questions about political bias in the grants process. Some challenge the objectivity of that grant decision since the vote came shortly after the council had taken a strong stance in favor of divestiture and had asgreed to administer an alternative to the Senior Class Gift--known as the Endowment for Divestiture--which will be held in escrow until the University divests its South Africa-related holdings...
...surged from $3 billion to $9 billion, making it the second biggest savings bank in the U.S. Architect of the expansion is Ross Kenzie, a former Merrill Lynch executive vice president who became president of the Buffalo Savings Bank in 1979. Says Kenzie: "At this bank, there is a bias toward action." Goldome's acquisitions include three failing thrifts that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Government's watchdog for the banking industry, was trying to save. The largest was the New York Bank for Savings (assets: $3.4 billion...
...momentum of that conscientiousness didn't carry forward into the article, where, on the contrary, sponsorship was attributed to only one of the eight co-sponsors (the Third World Coalition at the Law School). It is difficult not to see this as either sheer incompetence or considerable dishonesty and bias, none of which are particularly healthy traits for a journalist...
Animal Behaviorist Benjamin Beck of the University of Illinois at Chicago calls attention to still another human delusion, the species bias. Says he jokingly: "On tests for giraffes, where intelligence might be equated with neck length, humans test out below horses and ostriches...