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...some point we stopped evaluating students properly. “When grade inflation got started, in the late ’60s and early ’70s, white professors, imbibing the spirit of affirmative action, stopped giving low or average grades to black students and, to justify or conceal it, stopped giving those grades to white students as well...
...utterly frank, he wore his hair in a messy mop, tossed off unprintable remarks about his colleagues in a braying class-clown voice, and made startlingly fresh dances whose loose-limbed, heavy-gaited steps (Morris' wonderful dancers can look like James Thurber cartoons come to life) did nothing to conceal his passionately inspired response to music of all kinds (Baroque, Balinese, even country...
Second, the search committee must release both the "long" and "short" lists in each presidential search to allow for open discussion of the candidates. We recognize the desires of candidates to conceal their interest from their current employers and to avoid the embarrassment of not being chosen. But these concerns do not outweigh the University's need for substantive debate among students, faculty, staff and alumni. A public discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of each candidate could only assist the search committee in its decision...
...inflation got started in the late 60s and early 70s when professors raised the grades of students protesting the war in Vietnam. At that time, too, white professors, imbibing the spirit of the new policies of affirmative action, stopped giving low grades to black students, and to justify or conceal this, also stopped giving low grades to white students. I do not know how to quantify these views even if the figures were made available, and perhaps they are not quantifiable. Those who demand figures from me should be addressing President Rudenstine, who has the access to them that...
Some will praise the Elis' openness and the commitment to equality shown by their decision to celebrate, rather than conceal, their physical deformities. Yet this is not the first time that Yale students have delved into the pornographic. In 1752, the city fathers of New Haven were scandalized by the student production of "Ye Callipygous Maidens of Yale," whose participants were famously described by Voltaire as "neither callipygous, nor maidens, nor even women, at least as far as I could tell." An 1841 production of "The Tumescence of Eli" was cancelled only when no Eli could be found with sufficiently...