Word: herrnsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student activism at all. The previous 18 months had been noticeably quiet; it was hard to imagine what group, or which issue, could enlist sufficient support to mount a large protest. The controversy over the Counter Teach-In in 1971 had only just reached the boiling point; Richard Herrnstein's theory of I.Q. hardly seemed worth risking expulsion by the CRR, except to a few members of Progressive Labor...
This Spring may be different. There appear to be few underpinnings for largescale protest; nothing of the scale even of the Herrnstein controversy aroused the interest of the Left, or its remnants, last Fall...
...story reported that Hilary Putnam, the Faculty Old Faithful of the radical left, has severed his association with P.L. and will seek no further affiliation with radical groups. In retrospect, Putnam says, it was a mistake for P.L. and SDS to couple racism and academic freedom in the Herrnstein controversy...
Harvard-Radcliffe SDS spent most of last year waging a prominent campaign against Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology. Herrnstein, whose theories concerning the inheritability of intelligence were labelled "racist" by SDS, is on leave this year and the organization will have to look for new issues to drum up support...
...Herrnstein campaign was unsuccessful largely because SDS, influenced here by the rigid doctrines of the old-Left Progressive Labor Party (PLP), remained isolated from most of the University community...