"They can be activists, scholars, they can come from all different walks of life and they spend time here reading, thinking and writing," he says. "We have a lot of people at the school who are neither teachers, students [nor] staff."
The Berkman Center is just happy to have Lydon there, Saltzman says, and if Lydon is making a few phone calls to ensure that his broadcasts continue, they don't mind.
"If he were selling widgets using our name, I wouldn't be happy, but that's not the case," Saltzman says.
--Staff writer William M. Rasmussen can be reached at wrasmuss@fas.harvard.edu.