Harvey Silverglate

You can request a paper ballot.

And all I can say is that the hard part is getting the message out.

My name doesn't appear on the ballot because I couldn't get enough signatures.

Well, Harvey, Harvey Silberglatt.

S-I-L-V-E-R-G-L-A-T.

You know, when my grandparents arrived from Russia, the name in Russian was something like Zilberglatt.

And the immigration officer had several choices.

He could have said silver gate.

Gate is a real, silver and gate are real English words.

He could have said silver glade, G-L-A-D-E.

Those are real English words.

That's how my name is often misspelled, either silver gate or silver glade.

Silver glade is a nonsense syllable.

and why the immigration officer chose to transliterate Zilbaglade as Silverglade, I'll never understand, and it is the cause of endless mistakes in my name.

And be comfortable.

Yeah.

Yeah.

First of all, it is impossible, if liberal arts education is taken seriously, it's impossible for students to feel comfortable.

Why?

Because one of the roles of college is to challenge all the beliefs that they grew up with, which mostly are the beliefs inculcated by parents and by elementary school teachers.