Word: herrnsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publication two years ago of Professor Richard Herrnstein's Atlantic Monthly article about I.Q. testing and genetic-racial differences in human intelligence carried the discussion of these issues into the political arena. The article by Joseph Alsop (the Globe, August 27) and some comments in the September 3 issue of Time magazine have focused new attention on the subject...
...commission, which resolves complaints about matters under the jurisdiction of the Faculty, was not well known until last year, when radical students submitted complaints about alleged biases in Faculty hiring and in the teaching of Richard Herrnstein, professor of Psychology...
...commission, however, refused to hear either complaint, and the radicals appear to have given up on the commission. James Pope '72-4. a member of the New American Movement who helped draft the hiring and Herrnstein complaints, said earlier this year that he thought the commission was ineffectual and that he would probably not try to deal with it any more...
...universities, in the media) through spectacle rather than through airing their views in rational debate. We come to assume that speeches and discussion groups are rational because they are set in the university--where all sides are heard--and involve acknowledged experts. But in the case of Jensen-Shockley-Herrnstein one side is heard more often than others, and in the case of Shockley alone, no acknowledged expert is involved...
...attempt to stop the group's campaign against the Central Intelligence Agency because of Harvard's alleged ties to the CIA. As evidence that Harvard has CIA ties, Harrison cited policies of Henry A. Kissinger '50, and the writing of B.F. Skinner, Pierce Professor of Psychology, and Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, which he said are designed to justify "treating people like rats" and "slave labor...