Word: profs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter, Prof. Mansfield presented a potentially "shocking" idea to Ali; the entire Harvard community should listen. Minority students "are being hurt more by the inept good will of whites than by lingering racism." That is the lesson I am learning every day at Harvard as racial tensions continue to increase behind a veil of silence. We cannot tacitly accept this misguided crusade for justice. The consequences of affirmative action should not be ignored or silenced--especially by its recipients themselves...
...talking, of course, about the latest revival of the "grade inflation" debate, spurred recently by Prof. Harvey "C." Mansfield's short-tempered comment that grades became devalued because professors fear giving low grades to minority students. In addition to the familiar round of inter-ethnic name-calling, this infelicitous statements provoked additional discomfort among faculty and students by raising the question of whether grading policies reflect objective academic merit or subjective agendas and power relations...
...agree with Prof. Anthony Appiah that a relatedness to Black realities at Harvard is not "part of the job description" for Black faculty, and I also concur with his additional observation that our small numbers nevertheless cause Black faulty to be involved in Black issues. This is not unlike the situation for women faculty who, like Black faculty, are relatively small in numbers and thus any given woman faculty member might find herself involved in women's issues. And both of these situations resemble that of Jewish scholars like the late Lionel Trilling who, as the first Jewish scholar...
...only is his statement unsupported by any evidence, but it was unquestionably accepted and printed by The Crimson. Worse than that, Prof. Mansfield's statement has been allowed to stand without question by any member of the college's faculty or administration, indicating a similar and just as, if not even more, dangerous acceptance of his views as being truthful...
...Harvard's internal rules are a perfect place to define clearly and explicitly the limits of acceptable behavior in this respect, and the Date Rape Task Force's proposed definition can only help students be a good deal clearer about what occurs in sexual relations. Lydia Alix Fillingham Asst. Prof. in English and Women's Studies