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...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...
...even if the Lampoon and Mansfield have offended us, they can always claim that their offense "wasn't intended." They can talk of P.C. hegemonies and First Amendment violations. They can argue that their remarks were taken out of context and that all matter of horrifying implication was unfairly attributed to them...
...coalition issues a flyer titled. "The Peculiar Institution," with a list of demands: an apology from Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 for remarks linking grade inflation to the influx of Black enrollment in the early '70s; the creation of a minority student resource center; the establishment of an ethnic studies program; an official investigation into the role of "institutionalized racism," a town meeting with President Nell L. Rudenstine and other administrators; and greater faculty diversity...
...past year alone, Black students at Harvard say they have undergone a grilling by campus conservatives who have scrutinized their academic qualifications. Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 sparked controversy when he made statements in Harvard Magazine and The Crimson linking grade inflation with the institution of affirmative action...
...week after Clinton was elected, on November 10, the report came to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Although no vote was scheduled or taken, the report was hotly debated. Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 spoke strongly against the reports "partisan" stance on a national political issue...