JANEWAY REPLIES

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Permit me to disentangle myself from the interpretation your reporter has placed on what I told him about my conversation with Andrew Kopkind which led to Mr. Kopkind's withdrawal from a "Politics and the Press" seminar at the Institute of Politics.

Having learned entirely independently that Mr. Kopkind was about to publish an attack on the Institute's Director, Professor Richard Neustadt, in an American journal, I called Mr. Kopkind to ask him when the attack was to appear. We discussed the question of why he hadn't told me about it when I first called him to invite him, he suggested that maybe it would be better if he didn't come up. I told him that without having read his attack I didn't know if the whole affair would be embarrassing all around but that I imagined that it could be, and that it ought to be his decision under the circumstances whether or not to come up. I did not disinvite him, and I thought I made that plain to your reporter. It was Mr. Kopkind's decision to withdraw. Michael C. Janeway '62

[The article that Mr. Janeway refers to did not say that he had "disinvited" Kopkind, and I regret if this was the way in which he understood it.   --David I. Bruck]