Selections from in defense affirmative action

Academe

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-34

  Bergmann, Barbara R ^a  

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EID: 0030640639     PISSN: 01902946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/40251560     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Stephen L. Carter, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby (New York: BasicBooks, 1991), p. 2.
2. Dr David F. Duncan, Division of Biology & Medicine, Brown University, e-mail message to FEMECON-L network, May 5, 1994.
3. Jerome Karabel and David Karen. "Go to Harvard, Give Your Kid a Break." The New York Times, December 8, 1990, p. 25.
4. At the University of California Medical School that figured in the Bakke case that went to the Supreme Court, the dean of that medical school intervened each year in the admissions process on behalf of the children of friends and acquaintances.
5. See Barbara R. Bergmann, "Do Sports Really Make Money for the University?" Academe, January-February, 1991, pp. 28-30, and Murray Sperber, College Sports Inc.: The Athletic Department vs the University (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1990).
6. See Barbara R. Bergmann, "Do Sports Really Make Money for the University?" Academe, January-February, 1991, pp. 28-30, and Murray Sperber, College Sports Inc.: The Athletic Department vs the University (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1990).
7. Shelby Steele, The Content of Our Character (New York: Harper Perennial, 1990), pp. 89-90.
8. The 52 students who provided responses were members of a group that had been assembled in Washington, D.C. for other purposes. They were therefore not a national random sample and represented only themselves.
9. Respondents were asked to choose a number from 1 (disagree strongly) to 5 (agree strongly). Those who picked 1 or 2 were tallied in the table as "disagreeing," those who picked 4 or 5 were tallied as "agreeing," and those who picked 3 were tallied in the table as "neither agreeing nor disagreeing."