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...strong African Studies and Research Program as an integral part of the educational processes at Howard, will greatly widen the students' intellectual and social horizons. These studies will release them from the psychological limitations of a restricted historical, ethnic, and mono-cultural bias. Such students will thus be better equipped to provide effective leadership in today's world. As the distinguished American Anthropologist, Melville Herskovits, once put it, "To give the Negro an appreciation of his past is to endow him with the confidence in his own position in this country and in the world which he must have...
Flanigan's rejoinder to his critics in such cases is that "every decision that I have made I believe has been made in the public interest." It is a fact, moreover, that despite his obvious business bias, he is often hard-boiled with businessmen. Besides, Flanigan does frequently take the rap for decisions made higher up in the White House, where his loyalty is above question. He is extremely close to the President. He headed "Citizens for Nixon" in 1960, and when Nixon moved to New York after his defeat in California in 1962. Flanigan helped him raise funds...
...startling degree of bias was turned up last year by Dr. Edgar Engleman, who studied the attitudes of 500 patients in three New York City hospitals." Eighty-four percent of the men and 75% of the women questioned said that they preferred a male doctor. Though better than half agreed that woman physicians were more considerate than male colleagues in dealing with poor patients and nearly 40% said that they considered women friendlier than men, only one-quarter of the patients thought that they would be more comfortable confiding in a woman...
...Sojourner Truth, a former slave and influential abolitionist who was received by Abraham Lincoln and later appointed "counselor to the freed people"; Maria Mitchell, who discovered a new comet in 1847; Belva Lockwood, activist lawyer and candidate for President on an equal-rights platform in 1884. In analyzing the bias that has ignored such figures, the women's studies courses frequently focus on economic exploitation and other forms of oppression. At Buffalo, a course on the Politics of Health examines the "medical-industrial complex" as a profitable business. Even a course on automobile repairs presents the car as "directly...
Flat Failure. The bias against public spending has led the Federal Government to distribute the gains of economic growth in the form of income tax cuts rather than improved services. Since 1964, federal income taxes have been cut four times, from a range of 20% to 91%, to the present 14% to 50%. If rates, exemptions and deductions had been held steady for the past decade, Washington today would be collecting at least an additional $40 billion a year?more than enough to wipe out the $38.8 billion deficit foreseen in this fiscal year. Alternatively, if a large deficit were...