Word: shockley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale University suspended 11 students Friday for their alleged roles in leading disruption of an April 15 debate between controversial Stanford University professor William B. Shockley and William Rusher, publisher of the National Review...
Some academicians, like Arthur Jensen, William Shockley, and Richard Herrnstein, say racial differences in I.Q. test scores show that black people may be genetically inferior to whites. The evidence that has been advanced to support this claim is entirely worthless. Jensen himself, in a recent article in Behavior Genetics (April, 1974) has conceded that the basic data gathered years ago by Cyril Burt--the evidence Jensen himself used to prove his hereditarian theories--is spurious. Furthermore, the I.Q. test themselves are notoriously biased against black people...
...built for very patiently. WSA caucus members and others prepared for several years. We did it then the same way Workers Power members and oteers are building the anti-racist movement on campuses today, by discussing every question with everyone we can, organizing struggles (the successful fight to keep Shockley out of Yale a week ago is an example) exposing every administration lie, organizing a mass-based political defense when the administration tries (as they're now trying at Yale) to silence us with punishments, using these very attacks to help people understand the system better, organizing support for workers...
...things exist, but the picture is not that simple and the image of riots in the Yard versus frisbees in the Yard is too facile. What about support shown for movements centered around issues such as one-to-one admissions, Middle South Utilities's prospective Arkansas power plant, the Shockley-Innis debate? What about the clearly deeply sympathetic feeling for the 1969 strike manifested in The Crimson's supplement? These movements and that feeling are admittedly a very long way from attaining the spirit of that strike, but we cannot let ourselves settle self-indulgently into the image...
...Brien, UConn graduate student in Anthropology, called the theories of Laughlin and Ginsburg "more subtly racist and more plausibly scientific than those of Jensen, Shockley and Herrnstein...