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...been friends or acquaintences with such socially concerned luminaries as Robert Kennedy and Dororthy Day, but his book also makes use of his experiences during the Civil Rights Movement and other episodes of social and political conflict. Coles takes these experiences, along with a few musings on authors like Conrad and Emerson (which would probably fit very will within the curriculum of Gen. Ed. 105) and presents them as a sort of reader on the qualities of moral leadership-not just to lead, but to lead well...
...extended her range dramatically in "Poisonwood," a long, incantatory meditation, filtered through the memories of an American mother and her four daughters, on the evils of Western colonialism in Africa. Because of its subject and geopolitical sweep, the novel attracted admiring comparisons to the works of Joseph Conrad and Nadine Gordimer...
Over the course of the four months that staff writer Parker R. Conrad worked on this piece, he interviewed dozens of FDO employees, former employees and students. While D.E. Lorraine Sterritt did not use the words "saw no basis for the allegations," the experiences she described did not match charges by many former assistant deans interviewed for the story. The sidebar, which was published originally as a separate but linked story on the website, was meant to paraphrase succinctly areas of agreement between Sterritt and the two other assistant deans whose experiences in the FDO did not match the allegations...
Sterritt declined to be interviewed in person or by telephone, answering only by e-mail. Her responses were among the briefest that Conrad received from assistant deans. The story quoted the comments of others who defended or praised Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans, including former Assistant Dean Sarah B. Drummond, current Assistant Dean Philip A. Bean and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, as well as Nathans herself...
...following text ran with Parker R. Conrad's story, "Nathans' FDO: High Turnover and a Heavy Hand...