Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, students, professors and officials all slowly closed ranks in defiance of Mansfield's comments and furnished alternate theories on grade inflation's origins...
...Mansfield, according to students and his own comments, is doing the best he can to provide the example...
When Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 linked grade inflation to the size of the College's Black student population, for example, Geary didn't brush the statement off. "Even if you don't give it any credence, you think about it more than you would have...
...Undergraduate Council may confirm this. In recent years, ideologues like Randal S. Jeffrey '91 have lost races for chair, and former chair David A. Aronberg '93 says, "There's a greater sentiment that we should be handling student services." This year, the council offered no comment on Mansfield's remarks or on the selection of Gen. Colin Powell as commencement speaker...
...Harvey Mansfield being "insensitive" when he conveniently left out a host of explanations for grade inflation--and decided instead to blame the whole thing on TFs' alleged fears of giving Black students low grades? Probably so--he's always seemed to derive some childish pleasure from pissing off groups he dislikes. Last year, for example, he called Women's Studies a "little ladies' sewing circle...