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...Author Susan Brownmiller, who considers Snuff and all pornography strongly antifemale: "If the porno houses were devoted to the lynching of blacks or the gassing of Jews, you would not find so many civil libertarians rushing to their defense." To Writer Nat Hentoff, whose Village Voice column keeps a full-time watch on First Amendment violations, Snuff should not be censored, even if a real woman had been murdered in the making of the film. Says he: "I don't believe anything should ever be shut down...
...FACULTY COUNCIL'S recent recommendation that the Faculty vote to offer Nat Sci 36, "Biological Determinism," solely on a credit/non-credit basis represents a clear attempt to force professors to grade courses more strictly. If the recommendation is passed, students will be unable to take Nat Sci 36 to fill their General Education requirements. It is a course with obvious political content. But because its instructors do not follow the kind of grading practices the Faculty Council wishes to see enforced, a radical perspective on biological determinism will be virtually eliminated from the University's course offerings...
...accepted, the Faculty Council's recommendation will force Nat Sci 36 out of Gen Ed. Moreover, it is unlikely, given the new honors standards that restrict the number of pass/fail courses a student is likely to take, that many students will take Nat Sci 36. Lewontin and Gould have tried to cut down competition in their course so that students will work out of interest rather than for grades. Their system is certainly fairer to the student than that of Harvey Mansfield Jr., chairman of the Government Department, who recently told tutors in the department to cut down the number...
There are a number of courses on biological determinism in the course catalogue, but most of them take a very different view of the subject matter than that of Lewontin and Gould. Bernard C. Davis offers Nat Sci 37, "Evolution, Genetics and Society," with the specific intent of counteracting their radical perspective. Whether or not it was the Faculty Council's intent, by objecting to Lewontin and Gould's grading policies, the council could remove all but the conservative view of people like Davis, who believe genetic heritage is probably a factor in determining intelligence...
...instructor in Math 1b, said yesterday that Math 1b was popular because of the "central position of calculus with respect to other subjects." The Harvard Top Ten Humanities 103 799 1 Ec 10 782 2 Fine Arts 13 356 3 Humanities 9b 350 4 Math 1b 317 5 Nat Sci 111 296 6 Chem 20b 270 7 English 151 268 8 His 1630 261 9 Physics...