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Richard C. Lewontin '50, Agassiz Professor of Zoology, who also teaches at the School of Public Health, said he sees his role as a member of the group's board of directors as "giving talks, writing [and] talking to political people...
...matter of agitation and informing the public," Lewontin added. "As a teacher, I'm in a position to do that...
More importantly, however, the students (and Professor of Biology Richard Lewontin, who has joined them) have stated the issue as the ethical question it truly is. The institutionalized arrests, torture, imprisonment, murder, and other repressive features of the South African system have been discussed and re-discussed for over a decade, in these pages and elsewhere. The only remaining question is: When will the Corporation act on its self-avowed opposition to the atrocities committed daily by the South African government...
...perhaps more importantly, Konner falls into the "fallacy of biological determinism," so aptly termed by Professor Richard Lewontin several years ago (The Sciences March/April, 1976). That is, even if there were substantial evidence that male-female roles or any human social behavior was influenced by our biology, this would not tell us anything about how much behavior could be changed. As Ashley Montage points out in his book Learning Non-Aggression, which describes a number of societies where aggression is minimal. "Human beings can learn virtually anything. Among other things they can learn to be virtually unaggressive." And even Konner...
...imperative that faculty and students who have the slightest interest in preventing the University from sinking to the lowest level of sordid commercial struggle speak out now. The protest should be directed to the President and it should be vigorous and speedy. Richard C. Lewontin Agassiz Professor of Zoology