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Campus Protest

April 18, 1969

This week’s feature on

campus unrest(page 48)

harks back to 1969, when

protests “leaped like

firebrands from campus to

campus,” as a TIME cover

story put it. The feature

scorned student actions—

Harvard building take-

overs were “deplorable”—

but also spelled out a

central question that

remains unanswered: “To

what extent should uni-

versities become active

participants in changing

society?” Read the full

story attime.com/vault

THE WORK OF JOURNALISM HAS ALWAYS MEANT COPING
with a certain amount of despair, but the past few weeks
have been particularly unrelenting. From the shooting
in Las Vegas and the hurricanes in Puerto Rico to our
cover package this week on the horrific misconduct of
Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, the headlines have
been a sobering reminder of what nature can inflict on
humanity, and what humanity can inflict on itself.
So it is a pleasure this week to have a hopeful story in
the mix: Next Generation Leaders, a biannual project
we began four years ago in partnership with Rolex that
spotlights rising artists, activists, athletes, scientists and
entrepreneurs. “One of the joys of reporting on these
pioneers,” says Europe editor Dan Stewart, who oversees
the list, “is seeing how many of them go on to an even
bigger stage.” He cites as examples Feng Zhang, 34, a
2016 NGL who helped develop gene-editing technology
and last month won the vaunted Lemelson-MIT Prize for
inventors, and 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz, a 2017 NGL
who is poised to become Chancellor of Austria. You can see
all of these leaders, and videos about them, at time.com/
nextgenleaders.
On a similar note, if you find Washington’s partisan grid-
lock disheartening, you might be inspired by 28-year-old
Mike Gentry, the Republican mayor of Lebanon, Ind. Any-
one on his staff who defends a decision with “That’s how it’s
always been done” has to put money in a bucket. He is one
of the young mayors in Charlotte Alter’s story on how gov-
ernment might work when, someday soon, millennials rule.
Finally, I want to salute four of TIME’s leaders who are
paving the way to our own future. On Oct. 5, TIME won
an Emmy Award forA Year in Space, a documentary we
produced with PBS on astronaut Scott Kelly’s year aboard
the International Space Station. The project was led by
director of photography and visual enterprise
Kira Pollack, executive producer Jonathan
Woods, editor at large Jeffrey Kluger and
head of programming Ian Orefice. The
second hour ofA Year in Space airs on PBS
on Nov. 15. We hope you’ll tune in.

From the Editor

#VANLIFEMeet the real people behind the viral Instagram hashtag

that documents the growing number of Americans living on the road

in their vans. Cole Zuver, pictured above in Portland, Ore., with his

daughters, says parenting is easier in the great outdoors. “You get

them out into nature and almost instantly the fighting stops,” he says.

See the story and photos attime.com/vanlife

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SETTING THE

RECORD STRAIGHT

In the Brief (Oct. 9), a photograph

accompanying a story about

drug-resistant malaria incorrectly

showed theAedes mosquito,

rather than theAnopheles

mosquito. TheAedes species does

not carry or transmit malaria.

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