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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Wimpy Math Grad Student)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Why are there so few [female|black] physicists?
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Date: Fri, 11-Jul-86 19:11:50 EDT
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Summary: that awful unfairness of Affirmative Action

In article <2064@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>The proper role of government in this is to protect the rights
>of the individual.

Including the rights to a harrassment/discrimination free education?

>                   If a professor implies that your sex should
>not be in his class, then perhaps you've made a mistake in
>attending that university ....

And if the professor/university receives government money?  Then the gov-
ernment is *obligated* to intervene, one might think.

>The world is simply NOT FAIR.  It's unrealistic to think it ought to be.

This is amusing, Doug, highly amusing.  So you realize AA as being unfair
in sense X and thus ought to be rejected, while telling the potential ben-
ificiaries to put up with harrassment and other sense Y unfairnesses?

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Wimpy Grad Student/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720