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...Harvard Crimson's inept reporting irresponsibly allowed Robert Klitgaard's unsubstantiated and out-of-context statements to have detrimental impact on affirmative action policies and programs throughout this country. The "Exams Bias" article was written without any data or description of the methodology used and was also presented in the absence of any basic journalistic inquiry. Since when do raw scores devoid of personal context guage admission? Klitgaard's assertions completely ignore the importance of the socio-economic history of minority groups and women in this country. Why is Klitgaard trying to quantify and reduce to black and white...
...Crimson irresponsibly presented the "Exam Bias" article and ignored the devastating consequences of their incomplete and amateurish reporting. Black Students Association [College] Black Law Students Association Black Students' Union [Ed school] Afro-American Student Union [B-School...
Supporters and opponents of Skocpol in the department maintain that sex and political bias did not play a part in the department's decision. Regardless of that issue, though, the department should have jumped at this chance to include a highly qualified woman in its ranks--given the University's stated commitment to affirmative action...
...endorsement of the department to be recommended for tenure)--that it did not want Skocpol in its tenured ranks. Although Sociology includes no tenured women faculty members, several departmental sources--both supporters and opponents of Skocpol--insisted the decision not to keep her had nothing to do with sex bias. Rather, those who opposed her did so because they disagreed with her comparative approach to the discipline and felt it would steer the department in a direction they did not want it to go. Sources also said that some opponents simply did not like Skocpol's "strong" personality...
Ellsberg criticized the belief that the U.S. is reluctant to initiate nuclear warfare, which he called a "cultural bias." "We have done so in the past, and have come very close to doing so many times since," he said...