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...took David Hume's assault on the a priori view of causality to a waken Immanuel Kant from his "dogmatic slumber" on the issue of the a priori nature of all metaphysics. Similarly, though perhaps less monumentally, it took the recent controversy between Professor Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. and Zaheer R. Ali '94, president of the Black Students Association, on the origin of grade inflation to awaken me from my own dogmatic slumber on the issue of affirmative action...
...Zaheer Ali, quite correctly, objected to what he perceived as an assault by Mansfield on the very legitimacy of the grades received by minority students.' In a March 3 letter to The Crimson, Ali said it was demeaning to suggest that inflated grades were given to Blacks from "some benevolent white teaching fellow or professor." Minority students should and do "earn their grades," Ali continued. Thus, according to Ali, such a practice of white benevolence would be fundamentally unjust and unnecessary, as well as demeaning to minority students. I agree completely...
...Junior Parents Weekend panel on diversity, Zaheer R. Ali '94 told audience members that it is important for students to hear a wide range of viewpoints--even if some are controversial. We agree wholeheartedly with Ali's principles. And we recognize, even if Ali doesn't, that they must be applied universally...
...glad to see that Zaheer Ali, in his letter of February 24, 1993 to Dean Jeremy Knowles, comes out against grade inflation, for so I interpret his meaning. Although he favors affirmative action for Blacks in admissions, he opposes affirmative action in grading. Grades should be earned, he says, and not given by "some benevolent white teaching fellow or professor...
...flyer demanded an apology for the statements, but coalition organizer and Black Students Association President Zaheer R. Ali '94 said Mansfield's speech last night was not sufficient...