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Many of them are editors of student newspapers. All are deeply involved in campus activities, and are thus in a position to report for TIME with special sensitivity and immediacy. Yet for the stringer, a particular difficulty lies in reconciling the dual role of student and journalist. Berkeley's Stringer Mark Gladstone is also assistant city editor of the Daily Californian and deeply committed to the strike on campus. "Staying objective is obviously impossible," he says. "The dilemma is to realize your bias and cover the event as fairly and completely as you can." Nevertheless, adds Yale Stringer...
...addition to its regular staff of ' correspondents, TIME'S news-gathering network includes 26 part-time correspondents-or stringers, as we call them-on college campuses across the U.S. Until recently, the job required only occasional reporting to New York, most often about the mood on campus or some development in the field of education. "An assignment was something of an event," recalls Cornell Stringer Mark Katz. "It broke the monotony and helped the exchequer." Today, things are quite different. With campus unrest a major fact of American life, hardly a week goes by when TIME...
Sometimes there is a difficult third role to fulfill: that of citizen. One night recently David Aikman, TIME'S stringer at the University of Washington, discovered Thompson Hall, where his own office is located, in flames. He had little hesitation in helping to chase down a suspected arsonist. "No man tries to burn down a building as a protest unless he is in the last stages of revolt against his own condition," says Aikman. "For me, the inescapable melancholy of the incident was twofold: that any student could be so distressed by the law of the land...
...sadly noted that the violence at Berkeley "helped ease the cultural shock of coming home after 18 months in Viet Nam"-particularly when an enraged cop walloped him with his billy club while dispersing a crowd. The rage on both sides was especially evident to TIME'S campus "stringers" (part-time correspondents). "Watching one's friends throw rocks at police and reporters and wandering about the campus in eerie clouds of tear gas can be depressing and disconcerting," says Stanford Stringer Philip Taubman. "If you give half a damn for your school, you hate...
Landry describes Consentino as "the best goalie in Cambridge," and says he hopes the first-stringer stays healthy...