Feb. 12, 2001
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Censure the Wrong Response to Statements
I was dismayed to read Prof. Mansfield's speculations as to the relation between race-based admissions and grade inflation at Harvard. His comments were utterly unsupported and brazenly hurtful, and deserve our unqualified disdain.
However, I was even more dismayed to learn that the BSA has responded by calling for an official University censure. While their decision to actively protest Mansfield's lectures was laudable, we should all remember that, when it is delivered from official hands to squash heterodox opinion, "censureship" is censorship. In houses of learning, we resolve disagreements through the public exchange of ideas--not by administrative decree.
Shlomi Sher '01
Feb. 12, 2001
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