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Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, and Dean Whitlock filed charges Thursday with the CRR charging that Blustein and Garfinkel interfered with Herrnstein's "academic freedom and freedom of movement" and engaged in "intense personal harassment...
...Herrnstein is the author of a controversial article on intelligence and heredity which appeared in the September issue of Atlantic Monthly...
...letter sent by Dean Epps to Miss Katherine Moss, Vice President of Harvard-Radcliffe S.D.S., makes it clear that Harvard may use its disapproval of the campaign against Herrnstein as a reason for denying facilities for the S.D.S. National Convention against Racism. In our opinion, and, we feel sure, that of many other faculty members as well, such an action would be an ominous act of political repression, and one without precedent in Harvard's history, as far as we know. Nor do the other reasons mentioned in Dean Epp's letter (that students are still on campus...
...view of the common assumption of the critics of Richard Herrnstein, as reported in Crimson columns, that his article on intelligence testing can only be used to harm minorities and those who do poorly on such tests, it may be of interest that Judge D.J. Wyzanski, in ruling last December against the use of a general intelligence type test in selecting Boston policemen, based himself in Herrnstein's article as an authority. The case was brought by unsuccessful black and Puerto Rican applicants for policemen's jobs. Applicants from these groups failed the general intelligence type test disproportionately, and Judge...
Dean Epps told SDS on Friday that he might refuse to grant them a permit for their convention because of increasing SDS pressure on Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology...