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...university where the president and deans have always tried to avoid demonstrations, it is difficult to conceive of such a situation. Yet this is precisely what happened last spring: President Bok and Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, released statements to be read aloud at a demonstration against a University professor, Dr. Bernard D. Davis '36, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology. First in a letter to a prestigious medical journal and later in comments to the press, Davis has asserted that academic standards in medical schools have fallen in recent years because of the rise in the number...
...repercussions within the Med School area were immediate. Dean Ebert said last week that patients became suspicious of black doctors and asked that white doctors examine them. Blacks were insulted; by using such words as awarding diplomas on a charitable basis, Davis had cheapened the blacks' hardwon gains. And students, who believed Davis's comments would lead admissions people to reevaluate their minority programs and adopt more stringent standards, felt compelled to correct the situation...
President Bok and Dean Ebert felt strongly about the last argument, the potential damage to minority recruiting programs. Bok's speech was characteristically tempered. He said he greatly regretted the recent "publicity" casting doubt upon the quality and competence of students at the Med School. Dean Ebert's statement was much more in keeping with the tone of the day. He assailed Davis on several counts of irresponsibility and later in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine accused Davis of attacking all minority recruitment programs...
While welcoming Dr. Ebert's start toward such a review I must reject his implication that my editorial was criticizing minority students as a group. (I would also like to correct the statement in a Crimson editorial that I was concerned with the impact of minority programs on the quality of the nation's health care.) I was addressing only the problem of the minimal standards for passing all students. The lowering of these standards in recent years affects only a few students, non-minority and minority. But while their number is too small to influence significantly the average quality...
...clear that most minority medical students here have performed very well. Moreover, their perserverance in overcoming early disadvantages has earned wide admiration. But if poorly qualified students are also passed the well earned credentials of the good students may be tarnished. I am as deeply committed as Dr. Ebert to "the education of able minority students." Bernard D. Davis '36 Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology