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Eight members of Harvard/Radcliffe SDS confronted President Bok on August 8 to seek an explanation for what they called a "note of congratulations" he sent to Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology...
...fate lay in his stars or his genes. Social ills were attributed to the environment; change that and you change man. While the environment has been changing, man, apparently, has not. So renewed attention is being paid to genes. A number of iconoclasts, including Psychologists Arthur Jensen and Richard Herrnstein, argue that intelligence is largely inherited and cannot be significantly improved by family, schooling or any other environmental factor. A furious debate is now raging over this assault on egalitarianism. Blacks in particular are upset because they feel that their lower IQ scores, as a group, are the result...
...presently preparing a point by point refutation of Herrnstein's article which it says will be based on "scholarly works," Johnson said...
...also wrote that he disagrees with the SDS position that Herrnstein be prevented from teaching required courses...
...said yesterday he doubts that he will send Science Magazine a letter describing the nature of his note to Herrnstein and said that he cannot spend all his time clarifying everything he has written...