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...several years ago they would seem obvious, even a trifle irresponsible. We have decided, in our first supplement, to return to the avant-garde youth culture that spawned our predecessors, and to talk about it in an historical perspective. The old Dump Trucks tended to have an anti-intellectual bias; we hope that we have not over-compensated for it in the other direction...
According to Raspberry, discrimination against ugly women ("there's no nice way to say it") is the most persistent and pervasive form of employment discrimination. Men, he argues, face no such bias, except in the movies and in politics. Raspberry's sympathies lie not with the "mere Plain Janes, who can help themselves with a bit of paint and padding," but with the losers, the "real dogs," who supposedly would be working full time if their features were more regular. Such discrimination, he insists, is all the more insidious because no one will admit that it exists...
...decision not to renew my contract; many if not most others have personal or political feelings about "the Hartman case;" and as a corporate body it would be unusual if you would not be relieved to have that decision vindicated by an outside body. In recognition of these potential biases you stipulated that no member of the GSD Faculty could serve on this committee. Yet the nomination and election procedures were to be totally in your hands. This, I submit, retains a critical, although indirect, bias in the entire proceeding, one which seems to me repugnant to any true meaning...
...committee member. (I have asked for and been refused detailed information on this as well as other basic facts on the procedure by which the committee has been formed: this secrecy and full control of all processes and information by the GSD adds further to the aura of bias inherent in the entire proceedings.) The fact that the Rogers Committee had to reach so far down into the bottom of the list to find acceptances further increases the importance of the violation first discussed: had I been allowed to make further nominations, as was my right, there is a high...
...that intellectuals, the kind that get in there are themselves power-seekers, narrow, angry about not having the kind of power. Certainly, a Cambridge party is political to a fault. It could be that the academic world is a microcosm that breathes into it a certain bias, which when applied to the national scene amounts to a negation of the way it's more or less worked for 190 years...