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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- Subject: Re: Why I am Not An Egalitarian
- References: <Bzu4Ez.D5y@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec31.191915.19362@netcom.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:13:56 GMT
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- payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
-
- >It seems to me that you spend a great deal of time defining things in
- >terms of classes, and have shown little interest in dropping the class
- >distinctions and looking at every case individually.
-
- But isn't part of looking at individual cases developing an intuition
- about the individual, instead of going strictly by paper qualifications?
-
- And part of such an intution may be an *individual's* history of
- overcoming adversity.
-
- Note that I am in favor of affirmative action in terms of groups
- only in limited and extreme circumstances; (which have to be
- a lot more extreme for government than for private institutions).
-
- I am, particularly, not in favor of *automatic* preference to women
- and minorities in public university admissions programs.
-
- Lenore Levine
-