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...members of these two Harvard teams were dedicated, serious, and improving. Their determination to break down the pro-male bias in sports has to be admired. But the rise of women's sports will be slow because there are many obstacles in the women's path to sports recognition...
Kirkland says that he has heard complaints of "racial bias" from people in the basketball program but that "my dealings with Satch (Harvard coach Tom Sanders) have been very open and friendly...
Given that bias--probably inherent in his position as Harvard's president--it is not surprising that Bok calls repeatedly for more federal aid to private school students. It is a little hard to take, in that he has always said before now that the government should stop interfering in private universities' activities, but he claimed in an interview recently that there is a big difference between federal aid to students and the same money donated in large grants to institutions. Aid to students would not give the government license to interfere with internal University policies, he says, while institutional...
When the faculty voted to join the union in the spring of 1975, the trustees challenged the results of the elections. They contended that the elections were not valid because the votes of faculty members outside the U.S. were not counted. It added that the union tried to bias the voting by making misleading statements about alleged violations of academic freedom by B.U. President John R. Silber...
...Women's Studies concentration is only the immediate aim of the group, which wants to work for the elimination of bias against women and minority groups throughout the University. All Harvard departments, Orgel says, are biased in a white male way. Women's Studies might be a first step toward "raising the consciousness" of the rest of the University...