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Both David Evans, a Harvard College admissions officer, and Dean McKinney told us that black students often do not apply to Harvard because they perceive it as a racist institution, committed to protecting "scholars" like Herrnstein and Moynihan while systematically discriminating against black students. That the officials responsible for GSAS admissions choose to mask their own biases by slandering minority applicants leads us to conclude that the perceptions of those black students are correct...
...works of Herrnstein, Shockley, and Jensen show clear implications that they think eugenics programs will be necessary," Beckwith said...
...other hand, Professor Lewontin may have now changed his mind. I trust he will share his new assessment with the scholarly community. Then, perhaps, there will be something to debate about. Or perhaps not, for he may convince me to change my mind too. R.J. Herrnstein...
...sounds as if an affair of "pseudo-science" (Lewontin's phrase) has burgeoned into an affair of passionate anger. Anger doesn't go away by wishing. Herrnstein is going to have to deal with the angers and fears his theories have aroused...
...Herrnstein must accept moral responsibility for his ideas and actions in an open forum. This is a principle which has been sadly and noticeably ignored in high places lately...