Dear Editor
Dear Editor Race Dilemma Michael Bernick discussed some difficulties of imposing admissions quotas in "The Race Dilemma at Berkeley Law" (NL, November 22). Their justification and consequences...
...Bronx, N.Y...
...The burden of proof falls on them...
...The term "minor?ity," incidentally, lumps together disparate groups and is not without its ironies: Traditional quota systems have excluded Jews as an outcast minority...
...The same had been alleged about teachers...
...prag?matically, this was an understandable move, but it has unhappy implications for American democracy...
...coddling enervates self-sufficiency...
...Baltimore, Md...
...Their justification and consequences re?quire further analysis...
...In the same issue, Lucy Komisar's review of The Tar-Baby Option incorrectly identified the sponsor of the 1971 Byrd amend?ment circumventing the economic boycott of Rhodesia as Robert Byrd (D.-W...
...Once favoritism is with?drawn, failure sets in...
...Our quota-minded Department of Health, Education and Welfare suspects discrimination when ethnic groups fill jobs out of proportion to their percentage of the population...
...THE NEW LEADER welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...How do they feel when the places they merit are usurped by "minorities...
...Already college degrees of blacks are suspected of being acquired by double standard, which hurts those blacks who earned them...
...A more constructive policy would be to en?courage all groups to study as hard as they can...
...the new quotas also exclude them as part of the white majority...
...Quotas would deny such talent to society...
...Resentment arises against those well-meaning people who baited the trap...
...They added little to our understanding of either candidate, they discouraged serious and detailed examination of issues, and they encouraged an unfortunate aspect of the '76 campaign-the focusing on surface images and mistakes...
...As I see it, once Frank's rather distasteful media chauvinism is waded through, his legitimate case has not been refuted...
...Ind.-Va...
...The fallacy lies in considering the contemporary academic skills and directions of all groups alike...
...One is whether the debates were events to be covered by the press like any other, or merely exhibitions...
...A second has to do with the exclusion of minor-party candidates...
...What happens to the work ethic of blacks who get babied along from grade school to high school, college, graduate school, and careers...
...HAROLD INNES Corrections In Gus Tyler's "The Carter Mandate" (NL, November 22), because of a typographical error the number of Democrats in the Senate following the 1974 elections was listed as 65 instead of 61...
...in?stead of Harry F. Byrd Jr...
...now students are known to respond to teachers without regard to race...
...The League of Women Voters, its good intentions and the admirable services it performs not?withstanding, has obscured a few questions...
...RICHARD H. SHULMAN Debating the Debates I have followed with interest the controversy over Reuven Frank's "Programming the Presidential Debates" (NL, October 11), in the letters pages of both THE NEW LEADER ("Dear Editor," November 8) and the New York Times...
...On the whole, I think the debates caused more trouble than they were worth...
...Quotas hurt business, individuals, and race relations...
...What reader of any race would prefer a surgeon of substandard preparation Bernick puts us on guard...
...Quotas presume inferiority...
...Bernick found that most whites safely inside perceive a need for more black lawyers...
...Even in bitterly hostile Russia, educationally oriented Jewry attained distinguished intellectual positions far beyond its proportion of the population...
...We urge white youths to study...
...People may be less prejudiced than believed...
Vol. 59 • December 1976 • No. 25
