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I write to express my concern and alarm at the glaring lapse of editorial judgment present in the publication of two articles appearing in the March 14, 2002, issue of the RECORD. The first article, the front-page "news" story ("Conflict strikes close to home") makes a mockery of the idea that news coverage be balanced, well-sourced and written by an objective author.
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As many of you know, several course outlines containing what appears to be shorthand for a racial slur were put on the RECORD website to which HLCentral links. When these were discovered, the RECORD and HLCentral promptly removed them. In the course of investigating this incident, we feel that a preliminary public statement is appropriate and important.
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Deputy Attorney General John Yoo and Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter debated plans for the creation of military commissions to try suspected members of Al Qaeda and the Afghani Taliban on Monday before an audience of 80 HLS students at a forum sponsored by the Federalist Society.
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Davis Wang Jeffrey Steingarten, the food writer for Vogue, announced in his Traphagen Lecture that restaurant reviews are the lowest form of food writing. Your humble reviewers were naturally gratified by this validation of what they have always striven to do, and the faithful reader will appreciate the attention devoted in the past few issues to the traditionally under-reviewed.
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Embrace your ignorance. It's not just the rallying cry of the Kennedy School--it's also the first rule of learning about wine. Take this week's column, for example. When the editor of the RECORD asked me to do a column on sparkling wines, I told her that I really didn't know much about them.
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This semester, I am taking the best class. Dr. Alan Stone's Law and Literature seminar. Two hours on Tuesday afternoons. Wine and cookies and great books. What more could an artsy grad student ask for? Sure, it's a lot of work for the two credits, but aren't all seminars? Besides, I am in love with every page of the reading, especially the 700 or so which harbor Robert Musil's splendiferous prose.
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Newly admitted students are everywhere these days, roaming about wide-eyed and cheery, asking "Should I go here?" as if we really have much that is unique or helpful to say. I remember being in their shoes. It wasn't too long ago, but it feels like it was.
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The HLS academic calendar had finally reached the point where Fenno's mind went in to hyperdrive. Once again it was Spring Break, and Fenno prepared to unleash the power that had been cultivated in his mind over the last seven months on unwitting vacationers.
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Well, it's that time of year again. No, I'm not talking about the NCAA, but about that other form of March madness: the Oscars, which are being awarded this Sunday, March 24. As usual, what's in the envelopes isn't so much about merit as it is a combination of politics and popularity contest.
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Mistakes were made, but we keep trying The RECORD's purpose is straightforward. We work to inform, to challenge and to entertain. We hope to facilitate communication among students, faculty and staff. We struggle to remind readers that reasonable people can disagree about -- and intelligently discuss -- fundamental subjects.
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To talk about the ubiquity of voyeurism these days is about as perceptive as talking about the popularity of, say, cell phones or Britney. We all know we're in a Reality Life moment, in which the repackaged lives of real people is now the most popular form of entertainment.
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There's a lot of hand-wringing going on in rock n' roll these days. As album sales slumped markedly over the past year and the all-too anonymous Linkin Park emerged as the first among underachievers, the panic attack began. Fingers are pointing these days.