To the Editor:
The words of mine quoted in yesterday's editorial ("The full truth," Nov. 9) represent half of what I told my interlocutor and unbalance what I said. Here is something like a balanced summary of the statement I gave to The Herald: Were I a senior administrator who believed in the correctness of our actions in the McCormick affair, I would welcome an independent commission to examine all documents in the case and take the necessary testimony in order to arrive at a clean and truthful record, so that we could reaffirm our honor and self-respect as an institution.
If I had reason to believe that some person or persons in the administration had something to hide, I would also welcome an independent commission, so that we can deal with the facts of its investigation and take the actions necessary to restore our institutional honor and self-respect. Our first obligations are to the truth and to justice. Because of the utter lack of transparency with which Brown has conducted the McCormick affair, neither truth nor justice is in sight.
David Josephson
Professor of Music
