Word: furshpan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edwin J. Furshpan, professor of Neurobiology and chairman of the admissions subcommittee on minorities for Harvard Medical School said yesterday that there are no quotas for minority adissions at the Medical School...
However, it is possible that a ruling against special minority admissions would make it more difficult to admit minority applicants, who might be highly qualified to be physicians although their test scores and grade point averages might not be as high as those of others, Furshpan said...
...notions of reverse discrimination are totally misguided," Furshpan said. "We have a history of assuming that applicants with high scores and grades will make the best physicians, but it is not clear that this is always the case...
...most serious matter of all. The comments by Beckwith and by Furshpan in the Crimson represent legitimate disagreements, though it is not clear whether these comments are based on my article or on secondary sources. Lewontin's comments, however, are another matter. He is quoted as saying "[Davis] thinks blacks are mentally inferior and incompetent...[He] argues that these minority students don't have the intrinsic ability to become doctors." Nothing in my article justifies this grave charge. Neither does anything else that I have said or published. I have written to Professor Lewontin demanding an immediate and full retraction...