As This Is The Criteria For That "Harvard Fellowship", How Did Franken Qualify?

[Doctor Raoul]

	SHORENSTEIN CENTER FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM WHAT IS THE FELLOWSHIP?             The Joan Shorenstein Fellowship on the Press, Politics and Public Policy is a one-semester research fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Fellows are domestic or international journalists, scholars, and/or policymakers who are interested in the influence of the press on public policy and politics.            The fellowship offers a unique opportunity for scholars and practitioners to share their knowledge and expertise in a collegial and intellectually stimulating environment. Fellows participate in weekly seminars with scholars, a luncheon speakers series with invited journalists or policymakers, and in other organized programs of the Shorenstein Center and Harvard University. Fellows may audit courses for no credit. The Fellowship Program is not a degree or journalism training program.  OBJECTIVE              The purpose of the Fellows Program is to advance existing research in press/politics and to provide an opportunity for distinguished experts to reflect on their discipline. Our goal is to foster a collegial and intellectual environment that will enrich and complement one’s knowledge of the field. The primary focus for a fellow in residence is a paper (approximately 25 pages in length) on a topic examining and analyzing the influence of the press on politics and public policy in the domestic or international arena.  GUIDELINES    *   Applicants must be fluent in reading, writing and speaking     English. *   Applicants must be journalists, scholars or policymakers     active in the field of press, politics and public policy. *   Fellows are required to live in residence for one semester    (Fall Semester, approximately September through     December; Spring Semester, approximately February     through May). *   Domestic and international applicants are eligible. *   Stipend: $17,500 disbursed in four installments over the     semester. Travel and living expenses are not covered by     the Center. *   Office space, computer, printer and telephone are     provided.  *   Deadline for submission of application materials is     FEBRUARY 1.   HOW TO APPLY           To download a copy of the Fellowship description and Fellowship application form click here. Please submit originals of the following documents postmarked by February 1 to the address listed below. *   A cover letter from the applicant stating interest in the fellowship. *   Completed fellowship application form. *   A 3-5 page research project proposal. *   A Curriculum Vitae/Resume. *   Three letters of recommendation from people familiar with the work of the applicant. Application materials must be postmarked by FEBRUARY 1.   Please mail to:  Fellowship Program Director  Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Kennedy School of Government 79 Kennedy Street, Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138  For questions or more information: Email: edith_holway@harvard.edu  Telephone: 617-495-8269  Fax: 617-495-8696                         Return to Fellowship Program

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[Doctor Raoul]

Yo' Harvard, release Franken's application.

Al is not an international journalist, scholar, and/or policymaker, so who greased the skids in the Old Boy Liberal Network for him?

[secret garden]

Yes, but he played a journalist on TV. Maybe he even stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[Bernard Marx]

Bump for reference.

[Doctor Raoul]

Yes he did, with a dish on his head.

Guess that's good enough for Harvard.

Here's who to call, there's the President, his Chief of Staff and Special Assistant.

Then there's the Dean of the JFK School of Government.

And the Director of the Shorestein Center under the JFK School of Government.

And guess who runs Shorenstein's Washington Events, Bernard "There's No Liberal Media" Kalb.

President Lawrence H. Summers
Office of the President
Harvard University
Massachusetts Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Tel: (617) 495-1501
Fax: (617) 495-8550
Email: lawrence_summers@harvard.edu

The President's staff
Marne Levine
Chief of Staff
(617) 496-4100
mlevine@camail.harvard.edu

Christopher C. Kim
Special Assistant to the President
(617) 496-9476
christopher_kim@harvard.edu

Joseph S. Nye, A.B., B.A., Ph.D.
Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the Kennedy School
John F. Kennedy School of Government
tel: 617-495-1122
fax: 617-495-9118
email:joseph_nye@harvard.edu
faculty url:http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/faculty/Joseph_Nye

Alex S. Jones
Director; Lecturer in Public Policy
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-8269 Fax: 617-495-8696
Web site: www.shorensteincenter.org
Fax 617.495.8696

BERNARD KALB
WASHINGTON, DC OFFICE
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Suite 810
Washington, DC 20036
202-518-2239
FAX 202-518-2250

[Tamzee]

"I’d rather trust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."

-William F. Buckley

[woofer]

Why, or how, did Al "I must be funny, I was on SNL one season" Franken get the Harvard Fellowship? Really, is this a rhetorical question or are you seriously asking?

The leftist Demon-crats and their toadies at Harvard needed a smash-mouth, conservative baitng, don't-give-a-damn-cause -I-ain't-running-running-for-no-office voice to shout down the rising tide of moderate-leaning voters before they became clear thinking Republicans for life. And they needed to give him some credibility.

That's why.

[Doctor Raoul]

I'd love to see how they rationalized it at the time, hence the request for his application package.

It's obvious that Franken was unqualified before the fellowship and during his fellowship.

Let's see if all those self-important people aknowledge it.

[GigaDittos]

Didn't they name a cereal after him...Frankenberry? He has a buddy side-kick named Count Chocula.

[shhrubbery!]

C'mon, doc, you're not so naive as to believe that one actually has to have credentials to get these positions!? Not if you're a celebrity, you don't.

Most schools, including the overrated Ivy League, just loooooove celebrities. Remember how airhead Brooke Shields graduated from Princeton "without taking a single course in mathematics, history, chemistry, economics, physics, or biology"? (see Thomas Sowell: Choosing a College)

How else do you think third-raters like Toni Morrison are awarded fellowships at Princeton, inter alia?

(But of course you know this. I know you're just trying to embarrass Harvard by trying to get them to justify such an idiotic appointment -- and more power to you!)

[.cnI redruM]

I agree. He totally fails to measure up in PC stature to CORNELL UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR Cynthia McKinney. Harvard is truely losing it's prestige. Maybe the bluebloods are becoming inbred like the Spanish Hapsburgs.

[Unknowing]

It seems that Mr. Franken has earned a Bachelor's degree from a college, though that's the highest degree he has earned.

Of course, the fact that his Bachelor's is from Harvard College makes it (still) worth approximately eleven thousand times more than a Doctorate from just about any other school.

So, perhaps by Harvard's own standards, a Bachelor's from Harvard allows one to claim international scholar status.

Or, both Franken and that school have very high opinions of themselves, which they have the resources to enforce.

[X-FID]

Actually he was on SNL for many years as a writer and sometimes in skits, I think maybe from day one but i'm not sure on that.

[Mensch]

GUIDELINES   

*   Applicants must be fluent in reading, writing and speaking English.

Arguably qualified

*   Applicants must be journalists, scholars or policymakers active in the field of press, politics and public policy.

Arguably qualified    

*   Fellows are required to live in residence for one semester   

Wanna bet Franken didn't?

*   Domestic and international applicants are eligible.

I wonder which Franken considers himself to be?

*   Stipend: $17,500 disbursed in four installments over the semester.

Thanks parents for the cash!

*   Office space, computer, printer and telephone are provided.

No mention of fourteen research assistants, think they were all volunteers? 

[FreedomPoster]

The purpose of the Fellows Program is to advance existing research in press/politics and to provide an opportunity for distinguished experts to reflect on their discipline.

Yeah. Right.