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...only way to combat a liberal advantage. "Conservatives don't control the faculty. They don't control the administration. They don't control the student government," he says. Among the conservative students I have met over the past few months, nearly every one has offered a tale of antiright bias: half a dozen kids at different schools in California and New York told me their professors had derided President Bush in class. Others complained about the proliferation of programs in women's studies, African-American studies--even labor studies--while conservative scholars such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek (both...
...overseer—worked a room of alums to gather input for the search. Houghton and Fergusson discussed the search process and then opened the floor to questions from the 15 to 20 gathered alumni before splitting up into two tables for dinner.“They showed no bias or leaning one way or the other,” says outgoing Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) President Yuki A. Moore Laurenti ’79, who attended the event. “They just asked people to talk.”Other members of the search committee have also begun...
...member of the Harvard Policy Committee. She was elected a class marshal her senior year.As an undergraduate, Greenhouse also worked as a stringer for The Boston Herald, which ultimately refused to even interview her for a post-college job because she was a woman.But in the face of gender bias, Greenhouse fought back. Her junior year, she helped lead a successful campaign to get Radcliffe students access to Lamont Library.HER LIFE AND TIMESGreenhouse’s long career at the Times began when, only a month after graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe, she became...
...Faculty Club are still guests. Theda Skocpol, an award-winning sociologist, was turned down for tenure here; she filed a grievance, a three-member panel heard her case, and then ruled that indeed there was evidence of gender discrimination. Others have suggested prejudice against junior faculty and intellectual bias played parts in the denial of tenure. Now it’s up to Harvard, and for once the University must respond with actions and not words. Skocpol and more like her deserve places on the Faculty, both because they are great scholars and teachers and because any faculty without minorities...
...Rinere has been receptive to SAB suggestions. “Outsiders would be surprised and impressed by the amount which she acted on student recommendations,” he says.Still, even with the prefects signing onto the peer-advising system, Rinere’s trials were not over yet.SELECTION BIAS?Rinere and the SAB launched a Peer Advising Fellowship program, which will match upperclassman fellows with 10 freshmen each based on shared academic interests.The fellows will assume the Prefect Program’s function of fostering entryway camaraderie. Each fellow will be assigned to a specific entryway and will organize...