25 July, 2012

How Leopold Munyakazi's Hiring Challenged Goucher College's Good Intentions -- New York Magazine

How Leopold Munyakazi's Hiring Challenged Goucher College's Good Intentions -- New York Magazine: I was incredulous, filled with a mixture of anger and self-doubt. As their Rwandan companion nodded quietly in agreement, the producers from NBC demanded to know how Goucher could have sheltered such an evil man. They wanted to film me reacting to the indictment, but I refused. I hid behind the Scholar Rescue Fund, protesting that Leopold had been screened and certified, and that was all we knew. Later, in a New Republic story that was part of the flurry of early, short-lived interest in Leopold’s case, the producers were even quoted as describing my attitude as “flippant."