Mount Holyoke College
| www.mtholyoke.edu South Hadley, MA May 28, 2006 |
Joyce Carol Oates, National Book Award winner, best-selling author, and the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University |
| "There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so. America is a wonderful country, but its media focus upon winners, stars, and celebrities doesn't really prepare us for living in the world. We must rely upon our own judgment and our own sense of self worth." |
