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...with drawn their support for apartheid without experiencing financial disaster. Fasting also represents fine complement to the alternative gift fund recently started by members of the senior class, a sum to be held in escrow until the University divests. More importantly, however, the students (and Professor of Biology Richard Lewontin, who has joined them) have stated the issue as the ethical question it truly is. The institutionalized arrests, torture, imprisonment, murder, and other repressive features of the South African system have been discussed and re-discussed for over a decade, in these pages and elsewhere. The only remaining question...
...able to control and lower their biases consciously. While the discussion began with an hour-long presentation by Banaji, showing the current research demonstrating the tendency to subconscious prejudices, the second hour was spent in a panel discussion where both the audience, Shelby, and the other panelist, Richard C. Lewontin ’51, Agassiz research professor, explored the implications of Banaji’s research. The “mind bugs” lecture was part of the Humanities Center’s Faculty Conversations initiative, which brings together faculty from different fields to address interdisciplinary questions...
Agassiz Professor of Zoology Richard C. Lewontin spoke about Gould’s academic philosophy...
According to Lewontin, Gould always delved to the root of things...
...Lewontin also paid tribute to Gould’s unique ability to bring scientific theories to popular audiences...