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Afro-American Studies and Women's Studies were instituted as concentrations as the result of political pressure--either from students accusing the University of racial or gender bias or from wealthy alumni applying force through donations. To be intellectually honest, the staff should either support one or multiple new departments (or categories of thought) for each of the protesting ethnicities or call for doing away with them altogether.

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