Word: mansfield
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Ronald Reagan? Ed Koch? Dan Quayle? Nope. That was Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. ("a stellar professor"--the CUE Guide), the Thomson professor of government, talking at a forum organized by the Undergraduate Council's Ad Hoc Committee on Minority and Women Faculty Hiring last Thursday night...
DESPITE the attitudes of Mansfield and Thernstrom, the council's forum last Thursday was, in the end, encouraging. What became clear is that the University can take certain immediate steps to improve its abysmal record of minority faculty hiring. If it wants...
...calling Affirmative Action "not a good thing for Blacks," Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield said the program is "a kind of insult to the beneficiaries of it...It implies that you got [a position] without fully deserving...
...Mansfield, the only senior professor to oppose the Women's Studies concentration. when it was approved by the full Faculty threeyears ago, drew fire from other panelists forbeing insulting to successful minorities...
...depends on what you mean by AffirmativeAction," said Patterson. "If it means quotas, thenI share Mansfield's disdain. But AffirmativeAction...means predispositions and long-run goalswe can strive...