Word: sidebars
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...SIDEBAR: HARVARD STOOD UP TO MCCARTHY, WITH EXCEPTIONS...
Having now read the article, I notice that the reporter makes no reference, in the body of the article, to the responses that I gave him in the spring. In a sidebar that did not appear as part of the article when it first appeared on the online version, he says that I, among others, said that I saw no basis for the allegations about Dean Nathans. I would like to point out that that claim is inaccurate. I did not say that I saw no basis for the allegations (nor did I tell him that I saw a basis...
...lengths to seek me out last spring, even to question the veracity of my statements, and I can only surmise that because the opinions I expressed did not fit with this negative portrayal, he simply left them out! A fleeting (and inaccurate) reference in the closing sentences of a sidebar is inadequate representation...
...Conrad worked on this piece, he interviewed dozens of FDO employees, former employees and students. While D.E. Lorraine Sterritt did not use the words "saw no basis for the allegations," the experiences she described did not match charges by many former assistant deans interviewed for the story. The sidebar, which was published originally as a separate but linked story on the website, was meant to paraphrase succinctly areas of agreement between Sterritt and the two other assistant deans whose experiences in the FDO did not match the allegations...
After all, who am I to complain? So what if my summer won't earn me a sidebar in the Internship Bible? If I wanted to impress random strangers and resume readers I would have stayed in New York. As it is, I have two months of low stress life ahead of me. Hey, if my job gets too boring, they ain't paying me; I can quit...