Word: mansfield
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Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 blasted Rudenstine and the report for endorsing a policy which he said sacrifices academic excellence in the pursuit of diversity...
Once race was considered as a factor, Mansfield wrote on the editorial page of The Crimson and in an article published in The Weekly Standard, Harvard began accepting applicants of poorer academic standing...
...There] is one big difference [Rudenstine] does not mention: the stubborn and unwelcome fact that blacks do not perform as well as other groups on standardized tests," Mansfield wrote. "It is certainly unwelcome, and all the more because the difference is not small...
Days after Rudenstine's letter about Hopwood was released and Mansfield's article was published, Rudenstine's arguments were attacked in a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) by professors who claimed Harvard's policy of affirmative action encouraged students and professors to play "ethnic politics...
Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 was at the forefront of all of these controversies, reprimanding the administration for assuming a liberal position on the matters. Mansfield also alleged that a link exists between affirmative action and grade inflation...