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Harbus Editor Resigns
This article originally appeared in The Harbus on Nov. 11, 2002.
Nick Will, editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business School’s weekly newspaper The Harbus, resigned Nov. 6 after an HBS administration official verbally warned him that a cartoon in the newspaper’s Oct. 28 edition was both inappropriate and disrespectful. The ensuing controversy attracted national attention, and has raised serious concerns among students about the HBS administration’s commitment to freedom of the press and academic freedom. . . .
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