TIME October 23, 2017
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Campus Protest
April 18, 1969
This week’s feature on
campus unrest(page 30)
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/vaultTHE 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 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/vanlifeOn Leaders
Edward Felsenthal,
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
@EFELSENTHALSETTING 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.BONUS
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