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Coles, who spoke as part of the Harvard Education Forum, discussed his new book, The Youngest Parents, which was recently released by W.W. Norton & Company...
Marvin Kalb, the eminent critic of journalism and director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, asked the best question of the night at yesterday's panel on tabloid journalism in the ARCO Forum: "Fred, why are we here?" Fred Schauer, the academic dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, came up with a fine answer about the limits of the public sphere and the quality of debate in our democratic republic--essentially, questioning the worthiness of celebrity journalism in America...
...surface to align perfectly. But in fact, Schauer's rationale for the debate applied to a different set of panelists, namely the mainstream media. What the K-School crowd wanted to know was why it is that tabloid journalism has become legitimate--legitimate enough to hold a forum on it at the Kennedy School of Government. And the answers from the tabloidists present was that tabloidism is legitimate because it has been absorbed into the mainstream, and Steve Coz was sitting there to prove...
...Forum's mission, as stated in conference literature, is to select "those who will pick up the mantle of world leadership as we enter the next millennium...
Professor of Afro-American Studies and the Philosophy of Religion Cornel R. West '74 told audience members last night at the Hillel Forum that becoming an intellectual takes a lifetime...