Word: differences
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prof. Bell and other black separatists among Negro faculty have a right to differ with me, but it is ridiculous to characterize my view as a "vicious slande," of black students. There is nothing slanderous in the statement that bad admissions decisions by Harvard's admissions office is partly responsible for the poor intellectual and academic performance of black students. This is simply a question of fact, and Prof. Bell cannot remove it by rhetorical outbursts...
...describes not an abstract society of the future, but conditions here and now. He claims it is "a well-established fact that the upper and lower classes differ in psychological makeup, for example in their measured intelligence," and that "technology...may be...wiping out those intellectually simple jobs that used to occupy the less-endowed portion of the population." This says that unemployment can be explained by the innate inability of the poor to master new jobs...
Today, though, the Sabras-who take their name from the sweet-centered prickly-skinned fruit that thrives in Israel's desert lands-account for half of the 2,600,000 Jewish population. More important, their attitudes, ideas and experiences differ profoundly from those of their parents who were born abroad...
...size to achieve a 1:1 ratio. Harvard pleads this as part of its defense against 1:1 admissions. Another argument claims that imposing 1:1 regulations would mean a probable drop in the student body's caliber at schools where the size of male and female applicant pools differ greatly...
...against its own standard. The controls outside ad hoc committees actually exert over tenured appointments are initially not very impressive, and become less so when their membership is considered. Ad hoc committees consist of non-Harvard leading scholars in the field, and Harvard's experts aren't likely to differ markedly with fraternal outsiders...