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...quotas never justified? Only where we have a conspiracy, explicit or implicit, to discriminate. We had this in the case of blacks attempting to vote and register in the South; we have undoubtedly had it in many situations of employment and admission. One can detect the presence of such a conspiracy when minority candidates are asked outlandish questions, when different standards are applied to minorities and non-minorities. In such circumstances a court is justified in imposing a quota, and a legislature may give authorities power to impose one. Sometimes resistance to discrimination takes so many forms that only rigid...
...present-day view of the heroin addict: although we often give lip service to the notion that he is a sick or psychologically disturbed person who needs understanding and treatment rather than punishment, our more basic and emotional response of revulsion, fear and hatred is reflected in our implicit acceptance of the fact that the use of heroin and other opiates continues to be dealt with primarily through prohibition and the imposition of criminal penalties. This means that addicts--with the exception of a few like physicians and pharmacists--have little choice but to seek illicit sources for supplies...
HARVARD'S RACISM, however, is usually not so direct. It generally surfaces as an unthinking attitude of paternalism. The dispute over the University's ownership of Gulf stock provides a good example of this sort of implicit racism. Both the University's ownership of Gulf stock provides a good example of this sort of implicit racism. Both the University and the black protesters agreed on the central issue: Harvard should use its ownership of the stock in some way to aid black Angolans. The students suggested divestiture to make an impact on the public and fuel a nationwide Gulf boycott...
...sexual differences. Instead, the spectre of sex, a nagging, hovering possibility, gave rise to a gossip that paralyzed. We missed our privacy. Our peers were all too close. We were equals bereft of our symbolic ground of sexual distinctiveness. Hanging about in packs, we preserved their sexless equilibrium with implicit codes. Here the identification takes shape in something like a plot to prevent sex. The self-consciousness is killing...
Harvard will have to live with the consequences of the new budget. When soliciting funds to replace those that have been lost and while formulating a University budget for a tight year, the Harvard Administration will exercise an implicit but enormous power. We hope that in exercising it, the Administration will be able to resist its easy inclination to satisfy--at the expense of its powerless constituencies--the financial wants of Harvard's baronial powers...