Letters
…getting pleasure from reading
the obituaries…
Department of Corrections
In the February/03 issue the editors
committed several errors that require correction. In both
the cover story and the editor’s notes we referred
to the late Robert Braidwood, PhD’43, as director
emeritus of the Oriental Institute. Although Braidwood
was for many decades a central figure in the life of the
OI (see “Deaths,”),
he never held that post.
In an “Investigations”
piece on Chapin Hall Center director Mark Courtney’s
studies of foster care (“Fostering a New System”),
we wrote that “Forty percent [of the foster children
in Courtney’s study] said a primary caregiver abused
drugs or alcohol, 14 percent said a caregiver had a mental
illness, 18 percent said a caregiver had engaged in domestic
violence, and 10 percent said a caregiver had spent time
in prison.” The percentages given actually referred
to the children’s birth parents.
In reporting on the January 13 forum
on civility (“Chicago
Journal,” ), we misidentified the panelist presenting
the Islamic approach to civility. Rasheed Hosein, AM’01,
a doctoral candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
studying early Islamic history, was the speaker. And in
the “Letters” section we misspelled the name
of F. M. Brunemeier, MD’55. We regret the errors.
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