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...curricular review committee I served on, I witnessed administrators, whether well-intentioned or not, subverting intelligent discussion by the most ridiculous of tricks. One of my two committees was told we couldn’t discuss a particular topic because another committee had already done so; unfortunately for the dean who said this, I was on the other committee and knew that it most certainly had not been discussed. At another meeting, a high-level University Hall administrator—who holds no teaching appointment—complained that she was alarmed at how “unnecessarily negative?...
Just as the subject of divestment from Sudan has consumed the Harvard campus in the past year, the University’s investments in companies with financial ties to the South African apartheid regime was the preeminent topic of debate on campus in the late 1970s...
...make sure it's right all the time, not just most of the time. I can create an atmosphere for our editors to make sure they are supported when they take a tough line on journalism ethics and procedures. Gannett has had a number of meetings on this topic, and that's why the incident at USA Today [last month] was handled so precisely and completely. There is a zero-tolerance level for things that aren't done right...
Halberstam, who began covering combat in the Congo in the early 1960s before requesting a transfer to Saigon, became one of America’s prominent voices on the topic of Vietnam through his books “The Making of the Quagmire” and “The Best and the Brightest,” which both described the American involvement in Vietnam and criticized American policy...
...never enter a classroom as a student again. But as a journalist, I will spend the rest of my life trying to learn enough about a topic to educate someone else about it. In finding and answering these questions, I will be forced to embrace, and challenge, my ignorance. Harvard has taught me that the most interesting problems always lie in the unanswered questions...