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Remarks by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 infuriate the Black Student Association causing around 60 students to peacefully sit-in during one of his government class. The sit-in comes after Mansfield remarked that grade inflation started to increase after the influx of black students in the 1970s...
...four months between Mansfield's announcement and his final letter to the editor, a campus controversy flared over issues of free speech, political correctness and racial sensitivity...
...first day of February, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, a staunch opponent of affirmative action and grade inflation alike, announced that he would issue his students two grades-the grade he thinks they deserve and the "inflated grade" that would appear on their Harvard transcript. Students lauded the conservative campus icon-popularly known as Harvey "C-minus" Mansfield-for his change in policy. But when Mansfield blamed the rise of grade inflation in part on the increase in number of black students at the College in the 1970s, most of the applause stopped...
...first day of May-a day after University President Neil L. Rudenstine addressed a meeting of the Black Students Association (BSA)-Mansfield got the last word on the issue in The Crimson, criticizing an editorial by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 that refuted his claims about grade inflation...
...after calling for Mansfield's censure-and in some cases, for his resignation-the BSA settled for public refutations by Rudenstine and Lewis and for a clarification of his statements by Mansfield himself...