Remarks by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 infuriate the Black Student Association causing around 60 students to peacefully sit-in during one of his government class. The sit-in comes after Mansfield remarked that grade inflation started to increase after the influx of black students in the 1970s.
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