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This all seems very obvious. But even so, when last fall Prof. E.O. Wilson was slandered by hypersensitive antiracists, he was attacked not so much for saying something wrong as for saying something he "shouldn't" have said. There was all too little refutation of the actual presentation involved. This is a frightening anti-intellectual development...
...first error is contained in Wilson's reference to the Sociobiology Study Group as the "Lewontin group." Despite several attempts on our part to correct him, Prof. Wilson persists in the obsession that I somehow lead, dominate, or otherwise manipulate the Study Group. This myth arises out of the general error that characterizes Wilson's entire work of "sociobiology": the belief that he can universalize over all humanity his personal experience of the narrow social interactions of which he is part. While the groups to which E.O. Wilson belongs may indeed be hierarchically organized and may be dominated by persons...
...second persistent error embodied in Prof. Wilson's remarks is the impression he tries to create that all who oppose him are "Marxists". Aside from the narrow point that his political myopia prevents him from distinguishing Marxists from anarchists from populists, I would like to remind Wilson of what he already knows: the first public attack on Sociobiology came from that noted Marxist economist, Paul Samuelson, who in his column in the rabid left periodical, Newsweek, called "Sociobiology just another example of "social Dar-winism." No, Prof. Wilson, it doesn't take a Weather-man to know which...
...Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield '53, chairman of the Government Department, intimated in December that he was not at all certain that Kearns would get tenure, "You don't have tenure until you have it." Moreover, he added, "These are lean years. Many associate professors will not become tenured professors this year." Although he refused to specify when Kearns's tenure would be voted on, Mansfield hinted that there might be a special meeting at the end of January...
Welch has had a checkered career. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at 16, entered the Naval Academy but dropped out when World War 1 ended, dropped out of Harvard Law School because, his official biography says, "he had one too many arguments with Prof. Felix Frankfurter." Welch then went into the candy business, but had an unhappy encounter with the Great Depression, and even his invention of the candy bar which eventually became the Sugar Daddy didn't save him. He later joined his brother's company, Welch Candy Company, and became vice-president. At one time...