July 30, 2004

Unshaken Hands on the Digital Street

By MICHAEL BUGEJA

Recently I visited Harvard University and got lost at a busy crossroad near Harvard Yard, one of academe's most famous greens. It was 9 a.m., and the street was packed with book-toting students, casually dressed academics, and administrative types in business suits. I was wearing such a suit with a red lapel pin reading "Iowa State University," clearly labeling me a stranger.

I direct the journalism school at ISU and also serve on the board of the university's Institute of Science and