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...signed; now most of the time provided to prevent a devastating continuity crisis has been squandered. Administrators are finally taking action, but it may be too late. The long neglect of this problem shows subtle discrimination against women, since dancers are disproportionately female. Just as disappointing as gender bias, however, is the way in which this issue suggests a marked disrespect in the Harvard administration for both the arts and undergraduate education...
...Harvard lost its football stadium? There is little question how quickly University President Lawrence H. Summers would act to ensure complete continuity in the program. And while the priority—or lack thereof—given to dance at Harvard is probably not due to any overt gender bias, the resulting effect will predominantly hurt undergraduate women. This neglect is discrimination “in effect if not intent,” to use a phrase with which Summers is surely familiar. Had the administration given this issue the priority it deserved back in 1999, the potential damage...
Chauncey routinely defended the test in interviews, pointing out that it was constantly reviewed for bias. But later in life he grew wary of the direction of standardized testing in America...
...Sixth Generations. Because the former endured the worst excesses of the Cultural Revolution (two of the deans were themselves exiled for a time in Inner Mongolia and forced to perform menial labor), his films invariably focus on the prevalent socio-economic problems of the day, with a sympathetic bias towards the experience of minority nationalities. On the other hand, having grown up amid rapid economic progress and material comfort in burgeoning regional cities, the Sixth Generation filmmakers concern themselves mainly with the onslaught of information technology and the social dislocation of the nouveau riche. Economic growth has also produced...
...have experienced a merger, you need to take a close look at what's being done with your money. In some cases, merging is a way for fund companies to make poor-performing funds disappear. It creates what Vanguard founder Jack Bogle, a critic of the practice, calls "survivorship bias": lousy funds are killed so that a fund company's average rate of return rises. Survivorship bias may not have been the goal but was certainly the result in July when Columbia Management Group's Galaxy II Utility fund, with a three-year return of 3.7%, was merged into...