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Unfortunately, fencing has been victimized by uninformed attitudes because few people really know much about the sport (Comment, “Harvard Sporting Diversity??, Feb. 27). Since Brian A. Finn ’06 chose as his target the women’s fencing squad, I will address the facts as they pertain to our women...
University President Lawrence H. Summers spoke at yesterday’s Faculty meeting about the brief which Harvard will file by the Feb. 18 deadline, citing “the important and compelling interest in diversity?? as the brief’s prevailing theme...
Those calling for speech codes frequently see themselves as victims, and victimism exploits its position by calling for greater “diversity?? in the community in which the victim exists. Likewise, BLSA members have advocated greater diversity in the student body and faculty at the Law School. But that very diversity normally brings individuals with unpopular views into the academic community, precisely the views the proposed speech code would attempt to silence. Thus, the call for diversity is actually disingenuous—what speech code advocates really want is a greater representation in their community of individuals...
This odious notion of racial or sexual determinism is the primary source of conservatives’ objections to diversity senators, as well as to the larger idea of “diversity?? as an inherent social good. The assumption that a black person (or white for that matter) has a certain social value, simply because of his or her skin color, is patently racist. If, for example, a black family were denied access to a “restricted” community because it was believed that their moving in would detract from the social value, we would...
Some might find irony in the fact that schools that once discriminated against blacks and gays now take pride in discriminating for racial and sexual minorities, but we are not laughing. This “diversity?? movement is the kindler, gentler Social Darwinism of the left, operating on the flawed assumption that a person’s thoughts and beliefs can be ascertained by knowing the color of his or her skin or the sex of the person to whom he or she is attracted. More than two generations after the fall of Jim Crow and almost forty...