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Prominent lecturer missed

I'm curious as to why the Tuesday Keniston Lecture sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literature was mentioned only in the Daily's Calendar, and even there it did not even identify the speaker for this prestigious lecture series. The speaker was the social critic Stanley Crouch, a MacArthur Award winner and also candidate for last year's National Book Award for his "The All-American Skin Game," a stimulating collection of essays on Amerian racial issues. Crouch was also on campus for several weeks last year as a visiting fellow of the Institute for the Humanities.

Did the Keniston people omit identifying their speaker when they submitted their publicity material to the Daily's Calendar? Was/is the Daily unaware that a nationally prominent speaker was coming to campus? Someone dropped the ball, and as a result the many students, faculty and staff who count on the Daily to inform them about noteworthy campus events were poorly served by the publicity for this year's Keniston Lecture. Perhaps, however, you can make some amends by covering the lecture at length and interviewing Crouch.

JOHN WOODFORD

EXECUTIVE EDITOR,

MICHIGAN TODAY