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...true that some people will not live their lives on the principles one thinks they should and that they will employ racist and sexist criteria in their associations with other people. The proper recourse in such an event is an attempt at persuasion, and ultimately a refusal to associate with such people. But in a free society, the ultimate decisions on how people live their lives should be left up to them. In the long run, freedom will extirpate all racist doctrines, which cannot survive without the support of coercive government power...
...Good Housekeeping, they still have trouble (as I do) shrugging off some of the attitudes that make such women respect-worthy. And, as the shelves stocked with volumes titled "Women and ..." suggest, sex really does get in the way of dealing straightforwardly with people, even when the important criteria should be intelligence, job competence, ambition or simple sympathy...
...Thus "...medical faculties have always taken into account qualities of character and motivation as well as scientific ability and knowledge. In addition, we have begun also to take into account long ignored social needs...It would be a rare person today who would question the value of stretching the criteria for admission, and of trying to make up for earlier educational disadvantages, to help disadvantaged groups...Medical faculties can derive deep satisfaction from their success in recruiting and helping many able students from groups that were formerly excluded...Considerations of tact and guilt over our history of enormous racial injustice...
...That since there was evidence of friction between Hartman and higher-ups in the planning department, the GSD and the University and since he had received "no satisfactory explanation of the decison [not to rehire] in terms of valid academic criteria," then it was a "fair inference that personal and political considerations violative of his rights had played a major role in the decision...
However, the panel decided not to ascertain whether personal animosity or other criteria led to the faculty's decision because it believed "this task would be, as a practical matter, impossible...