Word: mansfield
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Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, called it an "absolute horror. "His colleague, Harvey C. Mansfield '53, said it demonstrated "the good sense of the American people. "There were debates about the meaning of the GOP sweep, the future of the Democratic party and the role of the far right. As the Ivy League analysis of the Reagan victory last November dragged on into the winter, a number of Harvard faculty members--most prominently, Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History who is now the senior Soviet-Eastern Europe specialist on the National Security Council--journeyed to Washington to participate...
...Faculty had just resumed discussion of a controversial study on minority and women faculty early this March when Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 rose to speak. Talking in hushed but forceful tones, the veteran professor of Government sharply criticized the proposals put forth in the study as "a departure from our principle of equal opportunity to each individual with equal merit." Furthermore, by giving departments special opportunities to hire qualified women and minorities, as the study urged, the University would effectively "set up a category in which no white male could qualify," he said. Measures like the study suggested that...
...Mansfield was outgunned that day: though several professors joined him in assailing the study, a majority supported its calls for increased recruiting of minorities and women for junior faculty slots and for allowing departments to seek special permission to hire women and minorities for whom they do not have positions available. Shortly after the session. Dean Rosovsky set in motion the policies put forth in the study...
...fact, at the same meeting. Rosovsky had strongly defended the affirmative action policies against the salvos of Mansfield and his colleague James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government. "It's hard to believe it's a statistical accident" that certain departments have few women scholars. Rosovsky said, Besides, he contended, the study's proposals would not hurt Harvard's standards, but merely assist qualified minorities and women in coming here. Affirmative action, as "the policy of the land and the policy of the University," was at Harvard to stay...
...disagreement between Rosovsky and Mansfield marks a pervasive disagreement among faculty about affirmative action here, particularly in tenured posts. Explanations of why Harvard currently has only 12 tenured women and 21 tenured minorities, and what--if anything--it should be doing about it differ dramatically...