Word: newmyer
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...intrigued by Jacqueline Newmyer's assertion that the "The Devil's Advocate" (FM, Oct. 7) was a "representative" account of the "power-plays" and "real-life drama" that take place on Harvard's extracurricular terrain. It is no coincidence that the manner in which FM went about writing the article was as "representative" of the extra-curricular "power plays" and "drama" which it ascribed to the Advocate. I and other members of the Advocate Executive Board declined to comment...
Having only access to the basic outline of the events she purported to describe Newmyer chose to compensate what her article lacked in substance with defamatory sensationalism: "at one point last spring, a flash-flood of resignation offers almost washed the Advocate away." Since Newmyer herself writes in the article's postscript that everybody privy to the Advocate Executive Board's proceedings last spring declined to comment it is hard to see how Newmyer is justified in fabricating fictitious renditions of those proceedings based on the bogus authority of "sources", "observers" and "veteran Advocate editors." Newmyer even has the audacity...
...Soudavar emerged repentant and still convinced that the Advocate needed his leadership. Humbled but not disheartened, he would retain his post at the helm." Some of Newmyer's speculations arise from her own imagination without even throwing so much as a glance askance at the standards of responsible journalism...
Jacqueline Newmyers's fine article ("Berkowitz Prepares to File Formal Grievance over Tenure Denial," Dec. 14, 1998) summarizes the fundamental procedural flaws-concerning both the composition of the ad hoc committee and the participation in the tenure review by Associate Provost of the University, Director of the Program in Ethics and the Professions, and Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson-at the center of my appeal. However, some of the information given to Ms. Newmyer by members of the Harvard faculty and administration is untrue or misleading and needs to be corrected...
Jacqueline A. Newmyer '01, vice president of the Republican Club, who is also a Crimson editor, said she came to the discussion because "D' Souza is one of the most articulate conservative thinkers on the issue of affirmative action on campus...