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...from those within our community, concerning how we handled the piece. Since our readers see only the finished product of a news article or opinion piece, it is easy to assume that a thoughtful consideration of whether to print the article did not happen behind the scenes. Here I would like to explain to you, the reader, our decision to print the initial story last week and why we handled it the way we did.We first got word that similarities existed between Viswanathan’s “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life?...
Katherine S. Wong ’07 knows the difference between a Vandercook press and a pearl platen. As the undergraduate press master at the Bow and Arrow Press, a student-run printing facility tucked under Adams House B-Entryway, Wong is fluent in the near-dead language of manual printmaking. But it’s not arcane terminology that attracts her to the craft. “Printmaking is a meditative activity,” says Wong, an aspiring neurologist and self-described laid-back Californian. “It takes a long time to do something relatively simple...
...literary good deeds by the Dalkey Archive Press, which is becoming a major force on the global literary scene. Based in Normal, Illinois, the nonprofit publishing house has been unearthing lost treasures for two decades. Founded by American critic John O'Brien, the Dalkey Archive takes its name from a 1964 novel of that title by the late, hard-drinking Irish writer Flann O'Brien (no kin), one of the firm's early reprints. The surviving O'Brien and his team have since uncovered more than 300 new and out-of-print literary classics...
...coherent way.” “We’re not looking to have press releases,” he said. Gross added that the internal communications director will be handling “communications that the College sends to itself and to its students.” Deputy Dean of the College Patricia O’Brien said that the director will make it easier for students to find information about the College, both in print and online. “We have over 700 websites,” said O’Brien...
...terrorist, further incensed Muslims, for whom any depiction of Mohammed is sacrilegious. Despite the odious nature of this and other similar cartoons, however, the response from the Middle East exemplifies its disrespect for such central values of democracy as free speech and press. The rage of many in the Muslim world over the printing and reprinting of these blasphemous cartoons threatens those very freedoms. Regardless of the content of a cartoon, pamphlet, drawing, or any form of expression, citizens must be at liberty to herald their deepest beliefs without fear of reproach or censorship from government. A democracy thrives only...