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...United States. With her own show, “Amanpour,” which debuted this past September, she has now begun to push the envelope for U.S. television journalism by devoting more attention to in-depth investigations viewed with an international lens. Before last year’s Class Day speech, students complained that speaker Matt Lauer was hardly a relevant choice. As such, we applaud the Class Day committee’s apparent decision to reevaluate its selection standards, and we challenge anyone to say the same of Amanpour as they did of Lauer...
Amanpour is also the first woman to speak at Class Day since 1994, when Lani C. Guinier ’71, then assistant attorney general for civil rights, was chosen. The speakers themselves send messages just as important as the contents of their speeches, and we believe that the selection of a woman—an extremely qualified, experienced, and talented woman—has the potential to inspire more than just Harvard women to achieve new heights of success...
Along the same lines, we feel that inviting a journalist of the highest caliber to speak at Class Day will serve to inspire those students interested in pursuing journalism after they leave Harvard. The College offers substantial counseling and resources for those planning to enter the celebrated worlds of finance, consulting, medicine, and law, but journalism is a career path often overlooked and, in some respects, neglected altogether. Although traditional media forms—including print newspapers like this one—may become obsolete in the years ahead, we cannot stress enough the importance of eager and intelligent young...
Gittler and her colleagues, who will graduate in the spring, said they hope that GSE Arts in Education Program Coordinator Scott K. Ruescher—the only staff member on the trip to El Salvador—will be able to pass their project on to a new class of GSE students...
Putnam also noted that the generation of individuals who grew up in the aftermath of Sept. 11 appeared to be reversing this trend by forming stronger and more lasting social connections. But he tempered this optimism by pointing out that the trend is occurring along class lines—working class youth are more likely than ever to be emotionally and interpersonally isolated...