The year was 1965 and two memorable issues were a special edition with professors debating the Vietnam war and an April fool's issue based on the National Enquirer ("the National Perspirer"), with a huge formal picture of the then famously gruff and intimidating university registrar and the headline: "Charles Duhig confesses: I am a woman!" Pretty much everyone on campus was amused, save Duhig.

A columnist, Mark Kramer, went on to write numerous books and teach journalism at Boston University. For me, it was the beginning of what has turned out to be a 54-year career in journalism which remains ongoing.

Paul Solman, BRANDEIS '66, business and economics correspondent for OK the PBS NewsHour (originally, the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour) since 1985