Word: denialism
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Most people think that fear should have no place in the cool, reasoned realm of medicine. But its presence, strengthened by prejudice and denial, has whipsawed the public response to AIDS -- from early dismissal to doomsday and back again -- ever since the epidemic began seven years ago. Last week, in a sensationalistic book guaranteed to punch panic buttons across the nation, Sex Therapists Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson triggered an uproar in the scientific community. Contrary to accepted wisdom and to all that is so far known by medicine, they claim the "AIDS virus is now running rampant...
PRESIDENT Bok called a seven-hour meeting last week and decided to hand a pink slip to one of his employees. The denial of tenure to Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton may present many complicated and controversial issues--about standards for tenure and the direction of legal scholarship--but mostly it was a personal statement on the work of one scholar at one school. A verdict on whether a woman hired nine years ago with the near guarantee of a permanent position had met the standards of Harvard Law School...
President Bok's decision to uphold the denial of tenure to Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton did not consider whether she had been a victim of gender discrimination, Bok said in a memo to the Law School faculty Wednesday...
...Dalton may have recourse to Bok's decisionthat would allow her to formally air thediscrimination issue. In November, Dalton filedsuit against the Law School, charging that genderdiscrimination lay behind her tenure denial by thefaculty. And according to her lawyer, the tortsexpert may actively pursue such a case against herformer employer...
...protest reflects a worrisome increase in racial incidents on U.S. campuses, including Columbia and the University of Michigan last year. At UMASS, tensions have run high since a 1986 black-white brawl among 1,500 students. Five months ago, an independent report criticized the university for a "historical denial" of the racial problems. Black students, who constitute 2.7% of the 26,400 student body, hailed the new agreement as a turning point...