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...While Ms. Safa is associated with the Divinity School as a visiting scholar this year, it should be noted that she and I have met only in passing. We have not discussed any subjects of mutual concern. In short, we know almost nothing about one another...
...following press accounts with a critical eye. My parents, like most Americans who depend largely on the TV media for news, had a distinct and, I think, distorted view of Iran and the Iranian people. In fact, I did reassure them before departing for Iran. Unfortunately, a number of Ms. Safa's remarks and accusations are based on false assumptions about me, my moral standards, my academic competence and my intellectual capabilities. I fear that she had "read in" a good deal more than is in the article...
...Ms. Safa's critique about my remark, "virtually everyone had been touched by the brutality of the Shah's regime," is a valid one given the way the quotation appeared in the article. In the interview, I stated that "virtually everyone I talked with had been touched--some told of relatives who had disappeared, some talked of friends and neighbors who were shot and killed during the revolution, some shared stories about incidents during the time of the revolution, for example, the massacre at Jaleh Square, the Rex Cinema fire, unprovoked attacks by the military and so on, some could...
...Ms. DeRoulet (Mets Owner...
...strongly object to the statement in Susan K. Brown's article of November 2, 1979, that "most colleges today are happy to divorce themselves from responsibility for their students' social lives." Ms. Brown does not seem to understand that treating college students like the adults they have legally become is quite different from abandoning responsibility for them. Most student affairs professionals are deeply concerned with supporting both growth and adult behavior among young people. Your reporter is not justified in suggesting that those colleges with less restrictive social policies are directed by administrators who do not care about their students...