Editorial I
Krieger, Terry
Editorial I Thugs I N HIS ARTICLE "Is Television News Biased?" (The Public Interest, Winter 1972), Prolessor Paul Weaver analyzes, among other things, the form of television news stories....
...Only the best storytellers can touch that thin line without crossing it...
...In his article, Mr...
...During the same period, teder,~l expenditures tor health, education and w e l t a r e rose trom $5 billion to $85 billion (a rise of 1,346 percent...
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...is not so much ignoruace, but that people do not know they are ignorant...
...The senator, tlarougn a series of happy discoveries, draws from the fact mat his Bomb didn't work when dropped on Tokyo the conclusion that no atom bomb works (be gets helpful hints from the Prime Ministers of England, France and Israel...
...I never would do anything to hinder your gorgeous career, for it has provided vast amusement to me throughout the years...
...There is nothing that indicates the CRR, with its largely ad hoc procedure, is less arbitrary than an administrator...
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...can be attributed to genetic differences between blacks and whites...
...The authors fulfill this obligation religiously...
...what they want is to control the university so that they can determine what values it propagates and what activities it undertakes...
...In The Jesus Factor the author makes his leading character a United States senator and presidential candidate who, by the merest coincidence, was a member of the task force which delivered the Bomb to Japan at the close of World War II...
...Despite it all, I'm still hooked on '._hem...
...These stories are unified and given focus by themes...
...Take Miss Blustein and Mr...
...For example, on page five of one issue of New Le~ Notes--I cannot cite the issue's date or number because the issues of New Left Notes are neither dated nor numbered -- there is an item about Edward C. Banfield, formerly Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government at Harvard University, now a University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Unheavenly City (reviewed in The Alternative, December 1970...
...My account of these events is taken from Daniel Swanson's article "Herrnstein Baited...
...Particular events are used to illustrate the theme...
...Herrnstein or the police officer...
...Paul Soiman, "The Herrnstein IQ Controversy," The Phoenix, April 18 1972...
...But life in general and life at American colleges and universities in particular is complex and diverse...
...As the students were leaving the lecture hall, about twenty4ive members of Harvard SItS and-Harvard's University Action Group (UAG) rushed through two sets of doors near the rostrum, gathered around Mr...
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...In both the way its members are selected and the way its business is conducted, the CRR is an institutional expression of the conception of the university as a democratic polity...
...Garfinkel have been prominent in radical activities at Harvard...
...It's no accident Banfield is being used in many (if not most) colleges...
...Familiarity with these themes may have more influence on what people think and do than their own experience, especially if their own experience does not include ongoing personal experience of a college or university...
...what they do have are a distinctive journalistic vocabulary and their imaginations...
...On the elevator ride to the sixth floor, about ten members of the group accompanied the officer and Mr...
...Herrnstein cancelled his appearance at Princeton...
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...And sometimes, I am happy to report, my dreadful habit leads to a pleasant discovery...
...Commenting on his decision not go to Princeton, Mr...
...Herrnstein At William James flail, Mr...
...Bok regards his refusal to consider the "opinions and behavior" of people when he decides how to treat them as a sign of his "liberalism," "openness" or "tolerance," but a refusal to discriminate and judge is a refusal to think...
...Drink enough Cold Duck and you could invent such a plot...
...Some radicals at Harvard have not only criticized Mr...
...At Harvard, some students and teachers who do not belong to radical groups or favor extreme tactics have become critics of Mr...
...But why is it "better...
...Herrnstein has been deprecated and deplored by some 100 faculty members in a public statement, by students enrolled in Mr...
...At Harvard, radicals involved in the anti-Herrnstein campaign have held meetings, passed out leaflets, and put up posters...
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...The President's Plane Is Missing is harder, because it requires that the reader be able to guess how the author is going to trick him...
...Now, through this column, the distinguished Dr...
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...Plunkitt: Why does no one remember that I stormed through the Illinois Primary with a landslide 63 per cent...
...in the September 1971 issue of The Atlantic...
...Indeed, I was surprised to see that you actually wrote a letter, but then I thought you might have put one of your enlightened aides on the project...
...Weaver points out that, while the events that illustrate the themes of television news stories change from day to day, the themes themselves tend to be repeated over and over again...
...Herrnstein recounts the development of intelligence tests and reviews some of the literature on the concept of intelligence, the relations between intelligence, education and socio-economic status and the effect of environment and heredity on intelligence...
...Plunkitt: It has come to my attention, quite by happenstance, that a letter allegedly signed by me and written on Senate stationery was published in your May column...
...The free issue is mine to I peruse for ten days...
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...At one point, he puts his argument in the form of a "'syllogism": 1. If differences in mental abilities are inherited, and 2. If success requires those abilities, and 3. If earnings and prestige depend on Success, 4. Then social standing (which reflects earnings and prestige) will be based to some extent on'inherited differences among people...
...The officer complained that there were too many people in the elevator and he and Mr...
...Spreading the antiracist movement and the fight to stop Banfield to every school where his book is used is a very serious question for the lives of millions...
...The President's Plane is Missing begins with an interesting question: what would happen if Air Force One crashed in an uninhabitable and largely unreachable area...
...1971s: "sleeper" was Their Man in the White House, a first novel by a young Canadian named Tom Ardies...
...I don't think I betrayed the sense of what he was saying, though...
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...For example, the poster said that, in his article, Mr...
...As that letter made me sound stupid and unsympathetic to the problems of the people I demand an immediate retration from your column...
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...He cancelled the talk after the chairman of the Colloquium Committee told him that Princeton's University Action Group planned to attend the meeting and question Mr...
...Herrnstein did not answer their questions but, accompanied by a plainclothes Harvard police officer, he made his way through the crowd...
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...The several student "constituencies" under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences-freshman, upperclassmen and graduate students - - may elect representatives with full voting power to the CRR but they have refused to do so because, among other reasons, they do not have representation on the CRR equal to or greater than that of the faculty...
...Herrnstein, who continued not to respond to what members of the group were saying to him...
...I should have known that the letter was not your work...
...Now they present themselves as steadfast defenders of the distinction, outraged by Mr...
...So, taken together, the themes of television news stories convey a conception of life as a collection of simple and uniform, even if changing, phenomena...
...Plunkitt: !&?*$!($, you should be able to help me out...
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...As we follow him through the various interlocking plots and counterplots we have to give him credit for momentarily baffling, then enlightening us-- but never to the point where we either give up or catch on...
...Tom Ardies has brought the Machiavellian novel one step closer to respectability by producing a decently balanced, original, plausible and well-written book that manages to hold the intended suspense to the very last sentence...
...Ardies weaves his tale with a graceful style and a humorous insight...
...There's a lot of discussion in SDS about how to do this best...
...The sex, which is a good standard measuring device, is thrown about haphazardly, usually with little or no connection with the story...
...The item reads: "All over the country, in Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, SDS and others are fighting the racism pushed in Edward Banfield's Unheavenly City...
...Herrnstein was located...
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...Bok made his remarks about the anti-Herrnstein campaign in the course of explaining to the faculty why his Admi_nistration had decided to let SDS hold its "National Convention Against _Racism" at Harvard from March 30 to-April 2. He said there was "a heavy presumption against offering our facilities to certain groups and denying them to others because of our agreement or disagreement with their opinions and behavior...
...Needless to say, a plot is suspected...
...Herrnstein himself...
...Still, even people who are inclined to take television news seriously can appreciate that the themes of television news stories have conveyed conceptions of life at American colleges and universities that have been, at best, incomplete...
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...By the way, I have neither seen nor heard a single report that anyone on the Harvard campus who witnessed these events - - with the exception of Mr...
...I say by happenstance because I never read, for I realize that so much more can be learned by just talking to folks and that printed matter is elitist and the work of fat cats who lack compassion and understanding for the people...
...Beard: Some time ago, I pointed out the difference between honest graft and dishonest graft and as I said, "I seen my chances and I took 'era...
...Harvard's Committee on Rights and Responsibilities is typical...
...senators run me over the coals and its impossible to get a word out edgewise with all those $f*&?!$* newsmen around...
...In this case it is a sin I am willing to forgive because it is well-done...
...Herrnstein agrees with Mr...
...It may be that Mr...
...Just as I continue to puff my cigarettes with the full knowledge that each good gasp brings me a minute closer to the grave, so I continue to read each new political novel with a half-hearted acceptance that I will be smirking by the end of the second chapter...
...Over this past academic year, there have been a few events that may at first suggest that at least some people at Harvard are able to make it...
...From the autumn of 1964 to the end of May 1970, not all students or teachers were discontented, protesting, politically active or rejecting traditional teaching, learning and scholarship...
...So, although the statement, the letter and the remarks may be taken as well-intentioned, they also may be dismissed as instances of the moral grandstanding that flourishes on American campuses...
...These people also may reel it is "better" that disciplinary decisions be made by such panels, whatever their defects, than by a group of administrators or -- heaven forbid -- one administrator...
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...If the members of the CRR believe the complaints should considered, they may decide to hold "hearings" on them...
...In addition to being slanderous, these arguments are weak and mo.~t -f the people who advance them are disingenuous...
...Besides characterizing Mr...
...He and the Harvard police officer walked from the Allston Burr building up Quincy Street to William James Hall, where Mr...
...The campaign against Mr...
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...All of this might matter only to students of mass media were it not that most peoples' "knowledge" of American colleges and universities consists almost exclusively of their familiarity wRh the themes of television news stories and newspaper and mag~Tine feature articles about American colleges and universRies...
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...In fact, traditional teaching, learning and scholarship have remained under attack, not only indirectly by people who advocate establishing quotas in the name of social representativeness or reallocating resources and redesigning curricula in the name of social responsiveness but also directly by people who want to prevent scholars from doing work on controversial matters or holding unpopular opinions about them...
...Writers of Machiavellian novels have a long way to go before they can attain the level of competence demonstrated by their brothers in the conflict class, or by their cousins in the detective and spy genres...
...Herrnstein...
...Eventually, Mr...
...One such "right" is to participate in decisionmaking, for example, by voting or by sitting on councils...
...Paul Goodof appeared and told the group he was a representative of Charles P. Whitlock, Dean of Harvard College...
...Herrnstein and shouted questions at him...
...Since the publication of his article, Mr...
...Had I been aware of it I would have been more attentive to their mischief...
...We can help by sending you info on schools near you where the right's already started and by marling out lit against Banfieki and his racist brothers and sisters...
...I had to finish up the poster and I didn't have the article in front of me...
...Keep it handy by y o u r dictionary, Bible or evening newspaper...
...According to Mr...
...But before I start speaking in superlatives I must report that this book does not entirely avoid the pitfalls of the genre...
...Another scholar who has been an object of the SDS campaign is Richard J. Herrnstein, a 20 The Alternative June--September 1972 The Bootblack Stand Dr...
...one-year gift subscriptions to The Alternative ($2.00 for students and faculty, $4.00 for o t h e r s ) . I understand one or more gift subscriptions entitles me to a f r e e magnifying glass...
...THUGS (continued from page 3) to accept widespread -- and increasing -- racist policies...
...Neither the faculty statement nor the student letter nor President Bok's remarks contain concrete proposals for stopping the harassment and intimidation of Mr...
...The CRR is authorized to receive complaints from members of the University Community...
...Students, teachers and administrators who want to see this "right" realized work to make the institutions of the university correspond as closely as possible to those of a democratic state...
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...A university cannot be a democratic polity and a hierarchical community of scholars...
...Ardies takes us from his hero's encounter with the candidate (a multimillionaire modelled on Dallas entrepreneur ,/ames Ling) through a series of adventures, misadventures and near-misses to a conclusion which leaves us with a glow of amazement...
...On March 3, Mr...
...On the morning of March 6, Mr...
...both have been leaders of the anti-Herrnstein campaign there...
...But I believe most of the students, teachers and administrators who hold political notions about the university conceive of it not as a center for the propagation of certain political values and a base for certain political activities but rather as a democratic polity...
...Muskie: You were running against an unemployed about-to-be divorced Catholic poet...
...Vanished and The Jesus Factor become transparent before the reader reaches the middle of the book...
...Other people interpreted their crimes differently and the Thugs were suppressed after 1831...
...research has been on pigeons -- the poster misrepresented what he says in his article...
...Jensen and others that about eighty per cent of the variation in intelligence is attributable to heredity...
...BETWEEN 1952 AND 1972 federal expenditures for national detense rose from $46 billion to $77 b i l l i o n ( a rise o t 66 percent...
...My impression is that, from the upheaval at Berkeley in the fall of 1964 to the incidents at Kent State and Jackson State and the nationwide student strike in May 1970, the themes of television n~ws stories (as well as newspaper and magazine feature articles) about American colleges and universities were generally these: a) discontent, b) protest (peaceful and unpeaceful, legal and illegal, ranging from campus to international issues), c) political activism (most of it radical), and d) the rejection of traditional teaching, learning and scholarship (often because of their alleged lack of "'relevance...
...Herfftstein from leaving the room were he to refuse to answer their questions...
...Garfinkel...
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...In fact, they are acquiring familiarity with themes that drastically simplify life and that, therefore, can mislead people who take them as adequate descriptions or explanations of life...
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...Clement M. Bosler...
...He was scheduled to deliver a speech there, but he had to cancel when be learned SDS had gathered a hostile crowd of about 400 students to confront him...
...But, as he points out, reducing the effect of environment on variations in intelligence necessarily increases that of heredity...
...Any reasonably intelligent person who knows that the author has to find a solution and present a happy ending can guess at the solution long before the author is willing to surmount the contrived obstacles he has placed in the reader's way...
...On the other hand, there has been much controversy over the extent to which racial differences in I.Q...
...What they are posing is a challenge to the courage, decency and good sense of everyone at the university...
...author has resorted to the gimmick of switching doubles (the president's cousin), so that the President can hold a top-secret summit conference with the Russians...
...Missa Ave Verum" was chosen because of its frequent selection by choirmasters throughout the world...
...The themes of television news stories are illustrated by particular events, but they are not derived from systematic investigations of events or patterns of events...
...Similarly, since the end of May 1970, not all students or teachers have been content, abstaining from protest, politically indifferent or returning to traditional teaching, learning and scholarship...
...In Vanished the action swings on the assumption that in order for a top presidential adviser to make a secret rendezvous with the Red Chinese he must publicly disappear into thin air, causing national consternation...
...They enjoy not the "privileges" of people who have successfully competed for a limited number of places in a hierachical community of scholars but the "rights" of citizens of a democratic community...
...Not only are the plots unfounded, illogical, implausible and spiced with plenty of unacceptable trickery, but the writing is usually awful...
...When Alan J. Garfinkel, a member of Harvard's UAG and a fourth-year graduate student in -- of all things -philosophy, was asked by a reporter for The Phoenix, a Boston weekly newspaper, to account for the discrepancy, Garfinkel said: "It was a dumb thing...
...Now I never wrote that letter, and, in fact, I rarely write at all, having only recently learned how to spell my name...
...According to the conception of the university as a democratic polity, students, teachers and administrators are not members of a hierarchical community of scholars but free and equal citizens of a democratic community...
...Enclosed is an | e x t r a $5.00 which I understand...
...Herrnstein's alleged failure to observe it...
...Published in August, it focuses on the unique position of minority groups in the Congolese electoral process...
...Herrnstein, followed by the people who had accompanied him on the elevator ride, walked up and down the (continued on page 24) LATIN MASS "Missa Ave Verum" A Record to T r e a s u r e The beauty of the traditional ~atholic High Mass, sung entirely in the Latin.you remember from your own Parish Church, will be yours when you have this album in your library...
...Weaver, a television news story needs a short and simple narrative to attract and hold the attention of viewers...
...Herrnstein's "Introduction to Psychology" course in a letter to The Harvard Crimson, and by Derek C. Bok, the President of Harvard, in remarks at a faculty meeting on April 11...
...You see, the President didn't really die in the plane crash but nobody -- not even the Vice President -- can be told because it would blow the meeting...
...Anyone who has observed the establishment of these "new era" disciplinary committees knows what to expect from them and it's not committees for academic freedom...
...Herrnstein believes "classlessness is elusive because people vary and compete for gain -economic and otherwise...
...It has been argued that Mr...
...See Professor Nisbet's brilliant book The Degradation oJ t he Academic Dogma, reviewed in The Alternative, March 1972...
...Originally, the word "Thugs" designated members of a religious organization in India who killed and robbed in the name of Kali, a god of destruction...
...He unxrked on the Scranton Commission and is presently a ]tee-lance writer, residing in Washington, D.C...
...Herrnstein said: '2 just won't speak at all under these conditions because I see no reason to subject myself to physical violence...
...What may prove to be the most extraordinary event of the anti-Herrnstein campaign occurred at Harvard just three days after Mr...
...When the bearings are over, the CRR's members hold "deliberations," out of which come "'decisions" on whether or not the defendants are "guilty" and what, if any, penalties are to be imposed...
...They can turn only to a "Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities" and their own decisions over the past few years...
...The incumbest president is worried because every announced candidate for the upcoming election has been assassinated...
...Wick Allison Wick Allison graduated /tom the University of Texas in 1969...
...Herrnstein states that "Jensen's two papers leave little doubt about the heritability of I.Q...
...Herrnstein as _9 -Pigeunman" -- mosi of his laboratory...
...When some people at a university harass intimidate a profesor, they are not posing a challenge to an administrator's "liberalism," "openness " or "tolerance" or a disciplinary committee's "fairness" or "justice...
...Herrnstein informed the Princeton Psychology Colloquium Committee that he was cancelling the talk he had been scheduled to give at one of its weekly meetings for advanced psychology students...
...That conception is not necessarily "wrong" and the conception of the university as a hierarchical community of scholars is not necessarily "right," but these two conceptions are incompatible...
...Msgr...
...By the way, the nefarious topic on which he had planned to speak at Princeton was "The Visual World of the Pigeon...
...The main character and narrator of the story (sometimes the author steps in to narrate, just to confuse matters) is a presidential press secretary who is just as much in the dark as the reader...
...At hearings, "plaintiffs," "defendants" and their "'witnesses" present "evidence," give "'testimony" and make "arguments...
...Herrnstein went to the Allston Burr building's lecture hall B, where he delivered a lecture to about 250 students in his "Introduction to Psychology" course...
...if you were to have done so, you would have cultivated an appreciation of the ridiculous...
...Goodof stood in front of the door of the seminar room, and the confrontation ended...
...It also may be that Mr...
...Few defendants who are found guilty are expelled from the University, perhaps because, given the conception of the university as a democratic polity, expulsion seems equivalent to life imprisonment or even the death penalty...
...Furthermore, the group intended to use force if necessary to prevent Mr...
...It is titled Escape: A New Demand Response System...
...The suppression of their descendants at American colleges and universities could not begin too soon...
...Incidentally, one of the patients is still at large...
...The politicization of American colleges and universities has included the adoption by many students, teachers and administrators of political conceptions of the university...
...He notes the efforts of reformers who hope to achieve classlessness by improving social conditions and making the environments in which people live similar or even identical...
...ing glass today...
...they are not even lawyers...
...Herrnstein and the officer entered an elevator, and members of the SDS-UAG group tried to enter it too...
...The choir, "The Columbians" famous chorus of the Mater Dei Council, Knights of Columbus, was directed by the organist, Edward F. Krieger...
...The third and most damaging accusation I can make against the Machiavellian novels is that they are so totally predictable...
...Use it to inspect pores in your skin or interesting moles...
...They have attended some of his classes, where they have distributed antiHerrnstein literature to the students, taped anti-Herrnstein posters to the walls and attempted to turn discussion or question-and-answer sessions into debates over the article...
...On the way, they were surrounded by the SDS-UAG group, whose members continued to shout at Mr...
...But it does not have all the characteristics of such a court and it does not function as part of a complete judicial or legal system...
...The Thugs were not common criminals...
...and both were members of the SDS-UAG group that harassed Mr...
...The government wants to soften people up (conlinued on page 20) The Alternative June--September 1972 3 on flimsy and implausible gimmicks to get off the hook...
...reviewed in The Alternative, May 1971...
...The question was, was I going to haul a~ for two miles at 2 a.m or was I going to rely on my usually good memory...
...J u s t fill out this handy o r d e r blank and send it to F r e e Magnifying Glass, tlo The Alternative, R.R...
...Herrnstein on March 6. The eight-member CRR took testimony, received evidence and heard arguments from both sides of the two cases and then, after meeting five times for a total of sixteen hours over three weeks, it recently annmmced its decision to take no action against Miss Blustein or Mr...
...It also has been argued that, even if Mr...
...Which Droves that it can he done...
...He finished his lecture at 11 a.m...
...Herrnstein's article but harassed Mr...
...The political radicals do not want to change the nature of the university as they understand it...
...I am talking about my "'impressions" of the story themes because I have not conducted a study of this matter and, as far as I know, no one else has either...
...According to Daniel Swanson, a reporter for The Harvard Crimson, "Herrnstein said nothing throughout the confrontation but appeared shaken...
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...Rev...
...The headline of the item is: "WAYS TO FIGHT BANFIELD AT YOUR SCHOOL...
...I realize that your publication of this letter was an attempt at political assassination of me by conveying to the people the fallacious notion that I write letters to fat cat elitists and running dogs...
...Herrnstein came under attack following the publication of his article "I.Q...
...On the sixth floor, Mr...
...I Address...
...The subsequent spectacle of these eight professors meeting five times for sixteen hours over three weeks to agonize over the cases of these two students may strike some people as an example of fairness or justice...
...After that, I'll either pay your bill or send i it back to you with the word I "cancel" scrawled across it...
...Herrnstein about his views on I.Q., which was not the scheduled topic of the meeting...
...Ardies decided to employ his considerable talent on a Machiavellian novel are as mysterious as the best portions of this book...
...the senator is a bit slow...
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...Forty minutes in length...
...Bok conceives of the university as a democratic polity and, consequently, believes that denying a group the privilege of using Harvard's facilities is in some sense equivalent to denying it the right of free speech...
...One suspects that the Writers Union has decreed that each had book will have at least one inept, superfluous and boring sex scene...
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...Herrnstein advances an argument about the role of inherited intelligence in a society in which success is based on merit...
...At one point in Intelligence and Democ-ratic Action, Frank H. Knight says: _9 The worst trouble...
...I haven't seen any evidence of such boldness in our military leadership...
...The SD8 newspaper New Lett Notes has covered the campaign, urged its readers to participate in it and suggested ways in which they might do so...
...Herrnstein quickly switched to another elevator, where there was scuffling when the officer tried to close the doors...
...When some people at a university slander a professor, prevent or disrupt his public appearances and even physically attack him, they are not acting like scholars but like thugs...
...In other words, it needs more people who believe in what Professor Robert Nisbet calls "the academic dogma," though that dogma has been increasingly abandoned under the attacks of recent years...
...Throughout this past academic year, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and other radical groups have led a campaign of harassment and intimidation against some prominent scholars who have done work on the relationship between intelligence and race or intelligence and social class...
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...The magnifying g l a s s - a n indispensible i n s t r u m e n t for doctors, lawyers, students, housewives, clerics and others - - has o v e r 1001 uses...
...Television reporters are sent out to cover particular events or situations and then, drawing on their journalistic vocabulary and exercising their imaginations when they decide how to employ that vocabulary, they produce their stories...
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...Which, being sane people, you I will accept wit-hour a wince...
...The paradox is that, in a meritocratic society, efforts to eliminate classes based at least partially on non-genetic differences help to produce or reinforce classes based largely on genetic differences...
...The novel revolves around a young ~riter who accepts an undercover CIA assignment to protect a soon-toannounce presidential candidate at his villa in Mexico...
...Much of their criticism has been directed not at any deficiencies or errors in Mr...
...From the standpoint of the television reporters, who must produce their stories within short periods of time, the virtues of the themes are their simplicity and their adaptability, that is, they can be and are used to characterize varieties of events and situations...
...Television reporters do not have the training, the time, the resources or the desire to conduct such investigations...
...The campaign's goal has been to force colleges and universities to dismiss these scholars from their positions and remove their works from reading-lists...
...This album is a live recording of the Mass celebrated in Saint Joan of Arc Church, Indianapolis, Ind., by the Pastor, Rt...
...Herrnstem's article but at what they suppose to be his political motivations or his article's political implications...
...Here are some ideas: 1) Start petition campaigns condemning the book or demanding it be thrown off campus...
...Frankly this whole Fur thing sounds silly to me...
...From the standpoint of their own intellectual integrity, they would he better off watching reruns of 'McHale's Navy" than watching 'NBC Nightly News...
...If any people are selected by either "plaintiffs" or "defendants" to represent them before the CRR, such people are not "officers of the court...
...I was not able to do this, mainly because I do not like authors to trick me and I like to give them the benefit of the doubt when it looks like they are about to Seven Days In May stands headsand-shoulders above the others in this respect, because the reader is willing to follow the internal logic of the novel and to accept the results (However, one must accept the presumption that our military leaders would overthrow the government if they had half a chance...
...Herrnstein published his article in The Atlantic instead of a "scholarly" journal and wrote about intelligence in the first place not because he wanted to bring his scholarly work to other people's attention but because he is "racist," "sexist" or "anti-working class...
...It will t r u l y be a t r e a s u r e d keepsake for Catholic children, many of whom may never experience in person the celebration of a High Mass in Latin...
...The characters are mere stick figures, the scenes are awkwardly handled, the research is poor and the knowledge of the actual workings of government is skeletal...
...How can I re-establish my reputation as a dignified, honest lady lobbyist...
...4) Confront the teacher and demand he or she not support this racism...
...Henry Kissinger couldn't have done a better job of disproving every thesis on which this book rests...
...Herrnstein argues that, given the current state of knowledge about the matter, nothing conclusive can be said right now but he maintains that, given _9 "sufficient ingenuity and hard work," knowledge about this matter can be substantially improved...
...Since these students conceive of the university as a democratic polity, they think it is unjust for a i l l m Enlighten Your Friends Annoy Your Enemies Free Magnifying Glass for Donors of Girl Subscriptions...
...Dita Beard Dear Mrs...
...And, since they are used in this way, they create an impression of uniformity...
...The faculty members who sit on it are elected by their "constituency," the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences, from among faculty members nominated by the Faculty Council (which itself is elected by the entire faculty) or by individual faculty members...
...There is, however, evidence that suggests the CRR is less effective and efficient and, therefore, less able to protect the University from danger...
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...I expect he will be nabbed when he enters the governor's race this fall...
...they know so much that is not true...
...5) Write us...
...That's easily explained: on the morning of August 6, 1945, an American reconnaissance plane flew over Hiroshima, noticed that an earthquake was oceuring, ordered an air strike which laid a magnesium burst over the city (like the glare of a thousand suns"), and, well, everybody thought an atom bomb had exploded...
...Price: $4.95 each {$4.50 each for 5 or more...
...I suspect that he was testing to see if he could publish...
...It is the result of a series of actions, including the establishment )f the eRR itself, based on the concepLion of the university as a democratic polity...
...The campaign against Mr...
...May Call in CRR" in The Harvard Crimson, March 7, 1972...
...When he considers the extent to which intelligence is a product of environment or heredity, he takes up two articles by Arthur R. Jensen, a professor at the University of Califoria at Berkeley and another object of the SDS campaign...
...Garfinkel...
...Herrnstein has his office...
...The reasons why Mr...
...It is modelled on a court in a democratic state...
...Both Miss Blustein and Mr...
...They repeatedly have demonstrated their hostility toward Harvard and their contempt for teaching, learning and scholarship in general and they recently have led a campaign of harassement and intimidation against one of Harvard's professors...
...At any rate, I am glad he made the decision, because he has provided aficionados of political fiction with that rarest of all rare gems, a decent book...
...Herrnstein has been given the works...
...As a result of their participation in one of the actions of that campaign, they were brought before a committee of eight Harvard professors...
...Now those who wish to purchase gift subscriptions to The Alternative for their friends or even for their enemies can obtain a free magnifying glass...
...It strikes me as an exercise in fatuity...
...On February 28, Professor Herrnstein was at the University of Iowa...
...Herrnstein filed charges against two people: Bonnie Blustein, a senior at Radcliffe, and Alan J. Garfinkel, a fourth-year graduate student in philosophy to whom I already have referred...
...What unifies the narrative and thereby provides the focus of the story is a theme...
...There may be people-who recognize the defects of panals like the CRR but believe these defects can be eliminated by making these panels more like courts in a democratic state...
...the very form of television news stories works against its doing so...
...Even if they were lawyers, they probably would not be much better equipped to do their work, for they have no "'laws" to uphold and no substantial body of "precedents" to consult...
...Herrnstein were rejoined by the other members of their group, and together they entered and then quickly left the seminar room in which Mr...
...The complexity and diversity of life can be conceptualized and interpreted in many ways, but, in general, television news does not take account of this complexity and diversity in any way...
...Herrnstein himself were not "racist," "sexist" or "anti-working class," he should not have published his article because of its political, that is "racist," "sexist" or "anti-working class" implications...
...People who assume that, since they watch television news, they know all that is worth knowing about American higher education and scores of other matters, 'do no know they are ignorant...
...The members of the CRR are not full-time "judges...
...Herrnstein offers this definition: 'Blacks: A low-capacity residue unable to master even the common occupations.' " What Mr...
...Herrnstein...
...they were "idealists" who interpreted their crimes as religious acts...
...For a critical analysis of the analogy between universities and democratic politics, see Robert Brustein's Revolution As Theatre...
...Thus it is both instructive and useful to discuss what the CRR and similar institutions at other colleges and universities represent...
...Herrnstein has not been limited to Harvard, for current academic mentality that acquiesces to this sort of totalitanian activity now can be found on most colleges...
...This "court" has no "officers," including police officers (the duties of the Harvard University Police essentially are those of watchmen...
...My impression also is that, from the summer of 1970 to our present protests over the renewed American bombing of North Vietnam, the themes of stories about American colleges and universities were generally these: a) content or 'quiet despair," b) absence of protest, c) political indifference or "'moderate" political activity ("working within the system") and d) a return to traditional teaching, learning and scholarship...
...One poster, many copies of which appeared on the Harvard campus during lhe first semester of this past academic year, was a "'Wanted" poster produced by the Harvard chapter of SDS and Harvard's radical University Action Group (UAG...
...Got it...
...Their own experience, however, probably can provide them with a better sense of complexity and diversity than the themes of television news stories, which create an impression of simplicity and uniformity...
...Ardies depends on a few tricks, including a switch of look-alikes...
...By this time, the SDS and UAG members who had been in the elevator with Mr...
...3) Put on guerilla skits in classes where it's used...
...Use it to r e a d fine print...
...The campaign's means have ranged from distributing slanderous printed material (leaflets, pamphlets, posters...
...George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the last Congolese election...
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...Who would throw an antitrust suit for money that didn't even go into their own personal bank account...
...Herrnstein said he might report them to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), which is Harvard's disciplinary committee...
...If Harvard or any other university wants to survive as such a community, it needs not more committees like the CRR but more people who have confidence in their own judgment that teaching, learning and scholarship are worthwhile and, therefore, worth defending...
...Goodof - - attempted to aid Mr...
...You see, at that time there was an escape by several patients from the Indiana State Insane Asylum...
...The book holds its excitement for a while, until we discover that the...
...Hiroshima...
...These people seem to believe that, by watching the evening news, they are not just combating boredom but acquiring knowledge...
...and so on) to physically harassing the scholars who are the objects of the campaign in classrooms and meetings halls and even on the streets...
...If you think this is ridiculous, you have not spent much time at an American university recently...
...Some of these students, teachers and administrators, particularly political radicals, conceive d the university as a center for the propagation of certain political values and a base for certain political activities (the values propagated and the activities undertaken being determined by whoever controls the university...
...So, for the most part, the CRR's members must make decisions largely on the basis of whatever standards happen to seem appropriate to them when cases arise, and this ad hoc procedure understandably has moved some people to criticize the CRR for being unfair or unjust...
...From what sort of thinking does such a presumption emerge...
...E. Muskie Dear Mr...
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...among North American and Western European whites, whom most data on the subject describe," and he notes that there has been little controversy over this finding...
...After these events were over, Mr...
...Those people constantly have rejected the distinction between scholarship and politics and even reviled those who have attempted to uphold the distinction in principle and practice...
...That should not be too sin-prising...
...Herrnstein really says in his article is: "'As the wealth and complexity of human society grow, there" will be precipitated out of the mass of humanity a low-capacity (intellectual and otherwise) residue that may be unable to master the common occupations, cannot compete for success and achievement, and are most likely to be born The Alternative June--September 1972 21 to parents who have similarly failed...
...Those...
...M9 R.R...
...Before people can have confidence in the judgment that teaching, learning and scholarship are worthwhile and worth defending, they must be able to make that judgment...
...As be left the building, he had to scuffle with an SDS member who tried to block his way...
...And, certainly, I would have caught on to the real source had I but read the newspaper at the time your letter arrived in our offices...
...2) Write letters to school papers exposing it...
...Herrnstein lists five "'corollaries" to this -'syllogism" and he then concludes that "the syllogism and its corollaries point to a future in which social classes not only continue but become ever more solidly built on inborn differences...
...VIEW, write: Dept...
...Plunkitt has agreed to advise American statesmen in this time of ~oubles...
...What worries me is not just that many people apparently do not take their own experience seriously enough but that they take television news very seriously indeed...
Vol. 5 • June 1972 • No. 9
