Word: meislin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drudgery of research into government processes and problems. At The New York Times, the game is total, Machiavellian office politics. Executive editor Abe Rosenthal sits like Jehovah on his throne, flashing thunderbolts from his fingertips at any lower-echelon staffer who incurs his disfavor. Former Crimson president Richard Meislin '75 snagged a Times job right out of college as Rosenthal's copyboy--bottom of the ladder that runs: copyboy-news clerk-reporter trainee-reporter--and rose like a Saturn V. rocket through the ranks. He now works as Albany burean chief, possibly the youngest bureau chief in the Times' history...
Former Crimson President Richard J. Meislin '75, who is now a reporter trainee who writes almost every day for The New York Times, called the elimination of the journalism option "regrettable. Harvard has always considered journalism a second class non-profession, an attitude which is far off-course...
...exactly certain at this time why the course was dropped, but several of the former teachers of the journalism section surmise that at the root of the problem is the misleading title of the course and the attitude towards it which Meislin expressed. Some of the committee members unfamiliarity with the course content and confusion about its title--journalism--bears out this assumption. Harvard has always frowned upon offering courses in applied arts, and Robbins says he feels that this attitude may be at the root of the decision to eliminate what appears to some to be a training ground...
...Meislin said he rejected a Gallo proposal to pay for rubber stamps and labor to make the necessary additions to the brochure because "it is the responsibility of the advertiser to provide the advertisement in correct form," Meislin explained...
...Meislin said Simon's statement was "not true," nothing that The Crimson has printed pro-Gallo advertisements that were "properly identified...