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Charles U. Daly, vice president for Government and Community Affairs, will chair a five-member faculty committee to evaluate the Nieman Fellowship Program in light of disagreements between the journalism Fellows and Dwight Sargent, curator of the Nieman fellowships...
Daly will look into Cobb's complaints echoed in letters a number of recent Nieman Fellows have sent to the University. The chief gripe is that Sargent invites too many publishers, circulation directors and obscure academicians as weekly speakers, and not enough active writers...
Cobb also said Sargent "shepherded funds inequitably." "Somehow the Dwight Sargent-sponsored events always seemed to occur in the top of the Holyoke Center or at an expensive club. If the Fellows brought up a speaker we had to settle for beer and cheese at the Faculty Club. And we often had to foot the hotel and airline bills for our guests from our own pockets," Cobb said...
Cobb said he sensed "fence-mending and politicking--not current interest" motivates Sargent's selection of certain Harvard faculty members to speak...
Cobb found Sargent uncooperative with the Fellows in petty secretarial details. "He wouldn't even let us use his stationery." Cobb said...