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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...
...Mansfield claimed Rudenstine's annual report was anything but apolitical...
...Harvard has jumped with both feet onto one side of this political debate," Mansfield said during the meeting...
...personal mission to go out and seek gay people." On this mission, she met people like Royce Lin '96, the future chair of the BGLSA, and Joshua L. Oppenheimer '96-'97, the future political rabble rouser famous for his campaigns against AALARM, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53, and other symbols of right wing conservatism. The next year, Thomas started accompanying Bill to the meetings, because he wanted someone to share the long walk from the Quad. When the vice chair position became vacant, Ty Sheppard nominated Thomas, an energetic supporter of The Cause, to fill...
...attractive packaging for controversial liberal programs. When President Neil L. Rudenstine wanted to defend Harvard's affirmative action policies in the wake of a heated national debate over racial preferences, he conveniently built his case around the much-touted value of diversity. As Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 has pointed out in these pages, Rudenstine engaged in a certain amount of equivocation in his apology for affirmative action, drawing support for his argument from thinkers who defined "diversity" in very different terms...