{"id":2230,"date":"2019-12-09T22:34:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T22:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2020-03-30T20:27:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T20:27:37","slug":"lead-prosecutor-in-mueller-investigation-andrew-goldstein-92-emphasizes-truth-and-personal-integrity-in-hanly-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2019\/12\/09\/lead-prosecutor-in-mueller-investigation-andrew-goldstein-92-emphasizes-truth-and-personal-integrity-in-hanly-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Prosecutor in Mueller Investigation Andrew Goldstein \u201892 Emphasizes Truth and Personal Integrity in Hanly Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>By&nbsp;Rhea&nbsp;Kapur&nbsp;(V)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, November 8, at the annual John Hanly Lecture on Ethics and Morality, Mr. Andrew Goldstein \u201892 discussed the influence of the Honor Code in his career at Pingry and beyond, and shared some ethical dilemmas he faced where the Honor Code\u2019s principles guided him.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Established in 1999, the John Hanly Lecture Series on Ethics and Morality honors former Headmaster John Hanly\u2019s personal commitment to instilling honorable and ethical values in students at Pingry. A diverse set of speakers have visited campus each year since the series\u2019 inception, each of them having a unique viewpoint on ethics and moral dilemmas in the 21st century. Mr. Goldstein is no exception. After graduating from Princeton University in 1996, Mr. Goldstein returned to Pingry to teach AP Government and World Cultures, filling the role of his former teacher Mr. Joe LaValley (whom Mr. Goldstein greatly admired). Later, Mr. Goldstein joined TIME Magazine as an investigative reporter. After graduating from Yale Law School, he eventually served as Chief of the Public Corruption Unit at the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of New York. Recently, he was Senior Assistant Special Counsel in the Department of Justice\u2019s Russia investigation, led by Robert S. Mueller III.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his remarks, Mr. Goldstein shared two stories, one of which centered around his experience as an investigative reporter at TIME. While covering the Columbine High School shooting, Mr. Goldstein discovered that members of the school\u2019s community were distraught from TIME\u2019s recent cover photo, in which the main focus was on the shooters, not the students who were killed. They wanted reassurance that this would not happen again. Mr. Goldstein retained a neutral position, noting his lack of control over the matter, but also stated how he could not believe they would repeat such a thing.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When another cover story that focused solely on new video footage of the killers ran, Mr. Goldstein had to come to terms with the betrayal the members of the community would feel and the role he played in that betrayal. To alleviate some of the pain, Mr. Goldstein personally reached out to each person he talked to, warning them ahead of time of the cover story. He also contemplated whether he \u201ccould have pushed harder [than he did] to keep that photo off the cover,\u201d acknowledging his personal responsibility. Mr. Goldstein\u2019s main takeaway from this was to figure out one\u2019s motivations \u2013 the principles upon which one bases their decisions. Getting those right, he noted, is the first step towards acting with integrity. This was a key theme of his overall talk. In his conclusion, he reminded students and faculty to \u201cstep back and look at our public discourse today\u2026 the importance of telling the truth has dropped off the list of what people think matters. As Pingry students, that should not be acceptable to you.\u201d He encouraged the community to always \u201cremember the values [that] were taught here\u201d to guide their decisions in life.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The talk was well received throughout the community. Meghan Durkin (V), Secretary of the Honor Board, said that \u201chis take on the Honor Code was very insightful, especially his remark that while it may allow for more violations, it provides students with the chance to make realistic, tough decisions.\u201d Samantha Burak (VI) also noted how \u201cwe hear about honorable behavior in our daily lives, but this was an important reminder that the lessons of the Honor Code apply well beyond just high school. The stories that Mr. Goldstein shared with us revealed that real situations in life are not always black or white, but that we should be striving to act with personal integrity regardless.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Rhea&nbsp;Kapur&nbsp;(V) On Friday, November 8, at the annual John Hanly Lecture on Ethics and Morality, Mr. Andrew Goldstein \u201892 discussed the influence of the Honor Code in his career at Pingry and beyond, and shared some ethical dilemmas he faced where the Honor Code\u2019s principles guided him.&nbsp; Established in 1999, the John Hanly Lecture Series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[217,9],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meghan","category-school-news","tag-john-hanly-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}