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The Tape Recorder Debate

WILSON: Who are you?

BISHOP: My name is Michael Bishop and I'm a reporter for the Harvard CRIMSON.

WILSON: Are you here as a reporter?

BISHOP: I am here as the person allowed Dean and I'm going to take notes and report on it.

WILSON: Did you come here as an advisor to Mr. Sheppard?

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SHEPPARD: He's here as a reporter.

WILSON: Well, I'm sorry, we don't...we allow advisors to come but not reporters.

BISHOP: The capacity in which I'm advising him is reporting it.

WILSON: That's not good enough. Mr. Sheppard can select anybody he wishes in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as his advisor, including students. If he selects you as his advisor and he tells us he selected you as his advisor we must take that in good faith. If in your other capacity you're a CRMSON reporter, we can't do anything about that. On the other hand...

SHEPPARD: You're just asking us to be dishonest.

WILSON: No, we're asking you to either conform to our rules or to change your behavior. It's your choice.

HAUSLER: It's pretty much a matter of form, isn't it? If you'll just be an advisor...

[Then came some unclear discussion about the previous case of the day in which a CRIMSON reporter had been admitted.]

WILSON: In the previous case the person was invited in at the explicit request of the student who said, "He's my advisor but you should also know that he's a CRIMSON reporter," at which point we said, "All right, if he's your advisor, he's your advisor." We took it at face value. We expect to see a CRIMSON story about it.

HAUSLER: This doesn't seem to be a major...

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