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...vote Friday, the full membership of the Yale Political Union decided to call off the debate, three weeks after the group's executive committee had invited Shockley and Innis to speak...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Yale Cancels Innis's Debate With Shockley | 2/19/1974 | See Source »

...Yale University group last week cancelled its plans for a debate on genetics between William B. Shockley, the controversial Stanford professor, and Roy Innis, national director of the Congress on Racial Equality...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Yale Cancels Innis's Debate With Shockley | 2/19/1974 | See Source »

However, the debate still may go on. A conservative Yale alumni group, Lux et Veritas, announced after the political union vote that it will invite Shockley and possibly Innis to speak at Yale...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Yale Cancels Innis's Debate With Shockley | 2/19/1974 | See Source »

Epps said that in his talks with the agents, "We were not talking in terms of large opposition to Ford's visit." He added that the Young Republicans had expressed concern over an incident "a la Shockley," but that he had said no difficulty would arise...

Author: By Richard W. Edelman, | Title: Ford Plans Harvard Visit; GOP Club to Honor Him | 2/15/1974 | See Source »

That finding would seem to strengthen the Jensen-Shockley argument. But Sanday also found that the IQ scores of the handful of blacks attending middle-class schools improved, while the scores of whites in lower-class schools declined. For example: scores for whites in schools where most pupils were from middle-class families rose from a mean of 105.5 in kindergarten to a mean of 108.7 in sixth grade; scores for blacks in similar schools went from a mean of 95 in kindergarten to 98.2 in sixth grade. But in schools where most students were in the lowest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The IQ Debate (Contd.) | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

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