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...toward resolving this hypocrisy is twofold. The administration should not merely tolerate, but actually endorse, the Freshman Week minority activities. The spirit of cooperation should extend throughout the year, with the College involving minority student organizations in administrative planning that affects them. More important, however, Harvard should seek to redress the conditions that make these events so necessary--by increasing minority recruitment for positions throughout the Faculty. As a recently released affirmative action report indicates, minorities are highly underrepresented in both teaching and administrative positions at Harvard. Minority students have repeatedly cited the low number of minority faculty and administrators...
Louis's first claim about reverse discrimination is that it is "designed to remedy and redress past wrongs." The validity of other cases of redress is not questioned, he asserts, yet "affirmative action, which is based on the principle of redress, gets singled out for a special, vicious attack." Among such cases of redress he cites lawsuits brought against asbestos manufacturers 20 years after the original exposure to the workers. But in fact, his case points up the important deficiency in Louis's argument. The plaintiffs accuse the asbestos companies of being directly responsible for harming those who were exposed...
Attention should also be called to the current attacks by the government on affirmative action programs designed to remedy and redress past wrongs. Affirmative action is not a new idea. Reparations were paid after the World Wars, and lawsuits brought against asbestos manufacturers 20 years after the original crime of exposing workers to the risk of cancer--these cases of redress are recognized as valid. Similarly, the idea of redressing 400 years of terror, brutality and economic discrimination against Blacks was gaining currency until just recently...
...affirmative action tampers with cherished, purely "meritocratic" ideals. At Harvard, students and admissions officers have openly admitted that it helps one's admissions chances to be the child of an alumnus. But none of this is considered dangerous, or unjust. Affirmative action, which is based on the principle of redress, gets singled out for a special, vicious attack...
From this international attitude arose such organizations as UNESCO and the Non-Aligned Nations Conferences, amid various calls for a "New World Economic Order." This new order would supposedly redress the imbalance of wealth between the developed industrial nations and the Lesser Developed Countries (LDC's), but has instead led to the present tenuous situation...