Word: nieman
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...apparently confuses Nieman seminars with Nieman dinners. The seminars, usually held for two hours every Tuesday afternoon, are almost entirely devoted to hearing from the Harvard academic and administrative community. If any one area of study has dominated the list (and I don't believe it has), it could only have been by a narrow margin. We have heard from and argued with deans, physicists, law school professors, musicians, English professors and engineering spokesmen, as well as professors from the departments of government, social relations and history...
...dinner, they have this year as in the past been a forum for editors, reporters and publishers to talk some aspects of shop. These dinners are actually the only time that the Nieman program comes close to resembling a trade school. This aspect of Nieman deserves attention, and obviously some speakers are better (or worse) than others, but it is hardly the tail which wags...
Louis Lyons and Dwight Sargent need no defense from me, since what they have accomplished (and the record of past Niemans in and out of Journalism) speaks for itself. Suffice it to note that President Conant, whose hopes for the Nieman program were so often invoked by Ardery, was sufficiently well pleased by the program developed under Lyons to keep him in the curator's post. And also to note that President Pusey, and journalists in general, have felt the same way about Lyons and now about Sargent...
...question of fairness). But Dwight Sargent most strongly does encourage "imaginative and original study plans," conducting the first group meeting of the year in such a way that the Fellows are exposed to a dozen different suggestions on how to use the year. The underlying assumption is that the Nieman Fellows are adult enough to select those courses and programs which would best enrich or help them. We do not need or want overt guidance, because this would be the surest prescription for stifling diversity...
There are aspects of the Nieman program which could be profitably altered, as with any program. Ardery's article, however, misread completely where the program stands today and what it has meant in the past. Hodding Carter III Nieman Fello...