Anti-Racist Group To Sponsor Forum

Richard Lewontin, professor of Biology, and Ronald Edmonds, director of the Center for Urban Studies, will speak November 8 at the first public forum of the Committee Against Racism (CAR).

Lowentin and Edmonds will speak on the subject, "I.Q. and Meritocracy--Fact or Fiction," Frances A. Maher '64, a CAR member, said yesterday.

"In an effort to educate the community, I intend to discuss some of the current theories on genetics now being pushed which lead to racism," Lewontin said yesterday.

Doubts About I.Q.

Edmonds said that he planned to "describe the alternatives to those who are interested in the existence of social services organized in a way that pays no attention to I.Q." "Schools should not have interest in a person's I.Q. because it doesn't tell you anything about the person," he said.

Maher said yesterday that professors and graduate students organized CAR at Harvard last month for the specific purpose of holding "thorough and reasoned discussions about the new thrust of scientific racist ideology that's been in the air for the last couple of years."

Maher emphasized that members of CAR did not organize next week's forum in response to the planning or cancellation of the Shockley-Innis Law Forum debate. Maher said that when CAR members began planning its first forum, they had no idea that Shockley had been invited to speak at Harvard.