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Though the resulting study by University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang impressively documented discrimination, no court would buy the argument that general statistics proved unconstitutional bias in a particular case. The L.D.F. concluded, says Meltsner, that it could never win "unless the fact that a high proportion of blacks were subject to execution emerged as but one distasteful aspect of a far greater evil." Thus, in 1967 the L.D.F. decided to fight the execution of every man and woman on death row in the U.S., a total then exceeding...
...chief legal tactician was Anthony Amsterdam, a law professor then at the University of Pennsylvania, now at Stanford, and his tactics soon began to pay off dramatically. Amsterdam and other lawyers won a stay from the Supreme Court in one case while the racial bias issue was being considered, scored a legal first with a previously unheard-of class action habeas corpus petition that blocked all Florida executions, and then in 1967 won a stay for everyone on California's death...
Such prejudicial remarks on so sensitive an issue before an audience Bok already believed to be sympathetic to such bias hardly represent the judicious consideration on which Bok's reputation is supposedly based. Though, as Bok said, he is free to speak his mind on any issue, his speech represented, at best, hopeless naivete and, at worst, insulting opportunism...
...minority groups to colleges and jobs. Eventually, merit systems, based on objective testing, replaced the quotas. Equal opportunity was supposedly assured for all. But equal opportunity did not lead necessarily to equal success. As some groups lagged behind in the competition, people began to discern a "white middle-class bias" in the testing. Where to turn next? To quotas, of course, as the doubtful means to assure minority access to colleges and jobs...
...only time two short and immeasurable years ago, relegated by some to a perennial shadow stretching at the feet of the male rowing oligarchy thriving across the Charles, ridiculed and down-graded during the early and faultering stages of emergence, struggling against the interest and facilities and innate attitudinal bias of a male oriented community, striving and pushing the nose of its program into a male-oriented and dominated sport, gathering and cherishing every scrap and morsel of attention, keeping logs and impossible hours, answering each derogation with a confidence foreshadowing with a wisdom and clairvoyance a perception far beyond...