Dean to students: Don't try to be a hero during
terror attack
Christian Science Monitor
Stacey Smith doubted her courage after hearing about Columbia
University journalism students who covered the 9/11 attacks. "Would
I rush into danger, or would I duct-tape my window, open a crate of
Oreos, and turn up the radio?" she writes. Then she read an
e-mail from the dean: "Please do not attempt to become a journalism
'hero' in dangerous situations; we don't want you to become a journalism
victim." Smith writes of the e-mail: "It contradicted
everything the school had told us ...I suddenly felt I'd been tricked
by a salesman who didn't believe in the product he'd promoted with
conviction. The letter seemed to say to me: 'You didn't really buy that
whole heroic journalism thing, did you?' I felt suckered."
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