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...symbolically important decision last week, the Supreme Court struck a blow for workers denied jobs because of their race or sex. The court ruled 5 to 3 that if victims of proven hiring bias later manage to get work with the offending firm, they must be granted seniority, pension and other benefits retroactive to the time that they were originally thumbed down. Thus if a black had been rejected for a job because of bias in, say, 1971, and finally hired in 1973, he would now be entitled to five, instead of three, years of seniority and pension credit...
...most promising ways for a complainant to win in court is to prove statistically that a firm's employment methods are biased. A company where blacks account for only 3% of the work force in a community where blacks make up 50% of the population would probably be vulnerable to a discrimination suit. Generally, however, most lawyers agree that proving racial or sexist bias in hiring is not easy. An employer can readily claim that the first time a black or woman applied for a job, a more qualified applicant who happened to be a white male was available...
Among faculty screening committees there are usually persons who know some student applicants personally and these impressions are shared with other committee members, whether in writing or in discussion. When a committee member feels that his or her relationship with a student applicant might bias an impartial judgment among candidates, whether a letter has been written about that applicant or not, that committee person with-draws from the final act of decision as to that applicant. These procedures were followed in the present case. Francis D. Fisher '47, Director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning
Hiss's rebuttal was immediate-and lame. He accused Weinstein of bias and called his conclusions "childish." But he did not refute most of those conclusions, including Weinstein's contentions-based on a letter that one defense lawyer had written to another in 1948-that Hiss knew that the Woodstock typewriter had been given away to the maid's son. Instead, Hiss merely reiterated an oft-leveled accusation that the typewriter produced at his perjury trial had a serial number (Woodstock N230099) that indicated it was manufactured one year later than the one he had once owned...
Wilkinson denied any bias toward Lowell House applicants, but said the Knox committee was "under a certain subtle pressure to take women because the Knox was just opened to women...