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...believe, as I am quoted as saying, that quotas for women are particularly desirable in the Society or elsewhere. As for the Society. I said that I was convinced that now that it was known that women were being considered, there would be many more qualified applicants, and that selection based on merit alone would result in a larger proportion of female fellows. In universities in general. I said that while I realized the issue was an extremely difficult one and while I have known of cases where highly qualified women were able to attain positions they clearly deserved only...
DISCRIMINATION is one of the major thrusts behind the call for sex-blind admissions. Most students at Yale-feel that it is up to the administration to justify the present discriminatory quota policy. The burden is on the administration, the students claim, to explain why women are treated differently when it comes to the human intellect...
Among the first and most important compromises expected concerns the rules governing the selection of convention delegates. The McGovern commission reforms attracted many recruits to the party and gave them instant responsibility by setting what amounted to quotas for them at the convention. While younger people and minorities were welcomed, however, old-line regulars, and labor and ethnic groups were to a large extent shut out. Some argue that the election was already lost when faithful Democrats gazed at the convention on television, did not see a soul on the floor they recognized, and did not care for those they...
...justice and without justice there can be no democratic order; a belief that democracy works and that it works because American voters are wisely and prudently aware of their own self-interest." To your reporter, this becomes. "The membership appeal opposes deep cuts in the defense budget, quota systems for hiring..." There is nothing in the appeal opposing "deep cuts in the defense budget," which I support, at the reporter could have found out by reading my article supporting McGovern in the September Commentary, or by making she when he called me. I am aware that other singers...
...this contradiction by insisting, "by rights, we are entitled to a majority," but they obscure fundamental clashes of class and status that are more basic than the conflicts of sexual politics. The only "rights" which make sense in the assertion above are the laws of probability. Pushing a quota system for its own sake--which this report rarely does--divides, rather than coalesces the forces opposing economic, political or social imperialism of any kind--racial or sexual...