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True to the academic traditions from which its members were drawn, the Strauch Committee did not seriously deliberate any proposals that would offer immediate solutions to the College's 2.5 to 1 admissions bias in favor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Equalize Admissions | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

...perhaps nothing can be done about class bias in selection doctors given the present patrician control of the medical community, what then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MED SCHOOL ADMISSIONS BIAS | 3/12/1975 | See Source »

...American Jews perform for Israel, apart from collecting money, is to try to influence American opinion and policy in ways favorable to Israel. So effective do they seem at this that sooner or later every U.S. visitor to Arab lands will be asked to admit that the pro-Israel bias of U.S. policy is surely the work of the mysteriously omnipotent and sinister American Jewish lobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN POLICY: AMERICAN JEWS AND ISRAEL | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man . . . who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment." That caricature of the desiccated plant-eater still pervades the English-speaking world. The very language is meaty with bias. Imagine a Beaneater martini, a fatted kale, a yam actor, a string of Turnip 'n' Brew restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Thoughts | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...current bias against the performing arts seems to reflect a persistent fear that Harvard might become a trade school, a professional school training craftsmen, not "scholars." Myra Mayman, director of the Office for the Arts, says Harvard is "a verbal place," and disregards non-verbal creative performance...

Author: By Beth Stephens, | Title: Battling A Harvard Tradition | 3/4/1975 | See Source »

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