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...conscience that forced Klein to end the campaign. Stephen Watson, chairman of Dayton Hudson's department-store division, asked that his stores' names not be associated with the ads. At least one major magazine, Seventeen, refused to carry the campaign. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association wrote to 50 retailers, threatening a boycott of their stores. Pickets were expected at the opening of Klein's flagship emporium in Manhattan on Sept. 7. That was enough for Klein to conclude that his message--"the inner worth of today's young people"--wasn't flying...
This ignores two facts. The first of these is the fact that girls outperform boys in reading and writing by even larger margins. On the National Assessment of Education Progress Tests (NAEP) given to seventeen-year-olds, boys scored three points higher on math and eleven points higher in science than girls, yet girls performed 13 points better in reading and 24 points higher in writing than boys, according to Sommers...
...late Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein relied on this data without reservation, and this is just one of countless examples of their use of biased sources. Many of the "researchers" they cite as authorities on race and intelligence believe Blacks are inherently, genetically inferior to whites Seventeen of these men have written for or served as editors for Mankind Quarterly, a journal of pseudo-science that attempts to prove white supremacy...
None of the students whose names appeared in the log knew of its existence. Only three of the seventeen students contacted by The Crimson expressed indifference that their activities could be publicly examined. The rest clearly--and rightly--took strenous objection to this invasion of privacy...
Matthew L. Bruce '96 says he reads these magazines at the barber shop while he's waiting to get his hair cut. "If I've already seen the Sports Illustrated, sometimes I'll look at Seventeen," he says...