Word: herrnsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faculty members always view the way students act now against a backdrop of the late '60s and the early '70s, when students were willing to jeopardize their academic careers to protest events within and outside the College. Five years ago, Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, found his classes frequently interrupted by students who objected to his theories of the genetic element in intelligence quotients. Sometimes the protests grew so heated that it was difficult for him to teach the rest of the course. "There probably weren't more than two dozen students involved in the demonstrations and public displays...
...symptoms of that malaise--caused in large part by the ongoing war in Vietnam--was a feeling, Herrnstein says, that the future was unimportant. Academic studies and future careers were unimportant, he suggests. "It was harder to keep your mind on Ec 10 when you or someone you cared about was struggling to decide whether or not to run away to Canada to escape the draft...
...many ways Banfield's return to Harvard is linked to Blustein's harassment of him. Originally, focusing on Richard Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, for his theories that involve research on the genetic basis of intelligence, Blustein says she "caught on to Banfield" in 1972, when Herrnstein took a leave of absence. She says that a couple of radical groups on campus asked her, "Why go after Herrnstein when you've got a real racist on campus? Why not go after Ed Banfield...
...word and has been going at it ever since. She and her friends have disrupted Banfield at the University of Toronto and last year shouted him down at the University of Chicago. As a graduate student at Penn, (she went there after getting kicked out of Harvard for harassing Herrnstein), she continually heckled Banfield as an auditor in his undergraduate courses, climaxing her disruptions with the racist award presentation...
Bonnie Blustern, who was kicked out of Harvard in 1972 partly because of "intense personal harassment" of Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, and is now a graduate student at Penn, led a protest against Banfield in the spring of 1974 that is one element in Banfield's decision to lease Penn...