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...were left wondering whose free speech? Whites'? Or just whites who contemplate notions of Black inferiority? Unfortunately, The Crimson's staff failed to heed its own words in its treatment of BSA President Kristen Clarke '97, whose challenge of The Bell Curve, by Charles A. Murray '65 and the late Professor Richard Herrnstein ("Blacks Seek an End to Abuse," opinion, Oct. 28, 1994) elicited the staff's condemnation and the kinds of intimidation The Crimson has warned against earlier: Either Clarke would retract her words and issue a public apology and step down from her position as BSA president...
Many Hillel members have objected to the choice of Martin, saying there are a variety of other scholars who have publicly protested The Bell Curve, the controversial book by former Harvard Professor Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles A. Murray...
Martin's hour-long address sought to place The Bell Curve, the controversial book by former Harvard Professor Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles A. Murray '65, in historical context...
...does seem strange that more attention hasn't been focused on the fact that the two scholars gathered much of their data from questionable sources. In the acknowledgments to The Bell Curve, for example, Murray and Herrnstein say they "benefited especially from the advice" of Richard Lynn, a scholar who in 1991 wrote in the neo-eugenicist journal Mankind Quarterly that "the Caucasoids and the Mongoloids are the only two races that have made any significant contribution to civilization." Then there's J. Phillipe Rushton, a Canadian psychologist who suggested in 1986 that Nazi Germany's military prowess was connected...
...pages had been authored by Afrocentrists who sang the praises of black supremacy. It would have been dismissed--and rightly so--as outrageous racism, no matter how many charts and stat sheets had been presented to the general public. Yet the data presented by the Harvard-pedigreed Herrnstein and Murray is debated analyzed, and publicized not as bigotry, but as provocative research that deserves thorough discussion on Nightline and on the front pages of the New York Times...