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Students at Adams House and members of a Boston anthropology group circulated petitions this week protesting aspects of "I.Q.", an article in the September issue of The Atlantic by Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology...
...Adams House petition, signed by 67 students, says, "by giving the impression that we are moving toward 'the removal of arbitrary barriers, 'Mr. Herrnstein's article can be used to justify the social crisis which now confronts...
...Adams House students say they feel a meritocracy is not inevitable. Their petition states that the syllogism from which Herrnstein derives his conclusion is "based upon the assumption of a viciously competitive and hierarchical society...
...Herrnstein added that he had accepted all speaking engagements offered to him up to a certain date in the fall term. He said, however, that he would not speak before any group which had open public discussion at the end of the program...
...members of UAG tried to enter University Hall during the rally to discuss Herrnstein's article with Dean Dunlop...