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...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) pamphlet distributed this week. The field "remains unrecognized by the various departments," the pamphlet says. Elizabeth A. Einaudi '83, president of RUS and co-author of the pamphlet, said this week the lack of recognition results from the University's "long-standing bias against Women's Studies." But Judith A. Kates, coordinator of the committee on Women's Studies, said this week that bias isn't the problem. "There just hasn't been a whole lot of interest in the subject," she explained...
Chicago Prosecutor William Kunkle favors self-employed business people, homeowners and those with strong religious views. He would challenge, he says, "anyone who has had one psychology course or one sociology course in college." That is not, he insists, the often charged but never admitted bias against intelligent jurors. Kunkle's reasoning: "The jury brings in common sense, a knowledge of everyday life. Say the case involves a tavern fight. Is someone with a Ph.D. in English literature really going to be helpful in deciding the issues...
After graduation in 1923, he became a reporter for the Kansas City Call, a leading black weekly. There he met Aminda Badeau, who was to be his wife for 51 years, and for the first time became aware of "the magnitude of racial bias in the U.S." Schools, movies, restaurants, even drinking fountains were segregated. "It was a slow accumulation of humiliations and grievances," he recalled. "Kansas City ate my heart out. It was a Jim Crow town through and through...
That deceptively bland bit of bureaucratic jargon has become a fighting slogan since Lyndon Johnson made it Government policy in an Executive Order signed in 1965. The order spelled out how the Government would enforce the prohibitions against bias in employment that had been written into the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In its mildest interpretation, affirmative action merely requires an employer to attempt to recruit women, blacks, Hispanics and others for jobs usually held by white males. But courts and previous Administrations have increasingly enforced a sterner standard: employers must set numerical goals and timetables-hiring or promoting...
...Force replies that both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have virtually eliminated the problem of bias. Among other things, the Soviets can launch satellites over the pole into orbit, measure the geodetic forces, and program their missiles accordingly. That is exactly what the U.S. does to complement its own east-to-west ICBM test shots from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. Furthermore, says Harold Brown, Defense Secretary in the Carter Administration and now visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington: "Since Soviet warheads are considerably more...