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...Commission of Inquiry announced this week that it would not consider an SDS-requested investigation or restriction of the teaching of Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology...
...complaint, filed last month by Thomas R. Bailey '73-1 and Miriam A. Sagan '75 on behalf of SDS, charged that Herrnstein's theories have been discredited, that they justify the oppression of minorities, and that they are false and dangerous...
...Herrnstein had responded to just such charges in an article published in the April issue of Commentary magazine. The article, entitled "On Challenging an Orthodoxy," attacks the "environmentalist doctrine that dominates both our education and our attitudes toward social policy," defends Herrnstein's controversial views on IQ and meritocracy, and describes with some distaste the reaction and tactics of his critics...
...article, Herrnstein says he took an "explicitly agnostic" stand on racial (i.e., black-white) differences in tested intelligence," and notes that ethnic and racial group dissimilarities are "hard to pin down as regards intelligence." In addition, he says that it was "neither my goal nor my subject" to determine genetic vs. non-genetic factors for various groups...
Adding to this, Herrnstein said on Thursday that "the sole group that has read racial implications into my article has been the SDS," and praised the Commission of Inquiry for evaluating the SDS charges in the light of academic freedom and not his work...