Orville Schell

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Orville Hickock Schell III (born May 20, 1940) is the Arthus Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. He previously served as Dean of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and has authored numerous works on the history of China.

Schell, a critic of factory farming[1], joined the company Niman Ranch (then named "Niman-Schell") with Bill Niman in 1978 with the objective of raising cattle in a humane and environmentally sound manner. Schell left the company in 1999.[2] In 1984 he wrote a book about meat production in the United States.[3]

Schell has a PhD from UC Berkeley's Department of History, and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in Far Eastern history. He served as an exchange student at National Taiwan University in the 1960s, and has authored 14 books, nine on China. In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[4]

In April 2006, Schell announced his intention to resign as Dean.[5] He will be replaced by Dianne Lynch.[6]

Schell is now the Arthus Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. The Center focuses on multimedia journalism, original research and public events to bring attention to areas of mutual interest to the United States and China. Since its inception, the Center has focused primarily on issues of energy and global climate change. Schell is currently Project Director of "On Thinner Ice," a joint multimedia project with David Breashears' Glacier Research Imaging Project (GRIP) and MediaStorm.[7]

Schell is a member of the Council on the Future of Media. This council is "championing a new global, independent news and information service whose role is to inform, educate and improve the state of the world-one that would take advantage of all platforms of content delivery from mobile to satellite and online to create a new global network."[8]

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[edit] Future Challenges to America

In an interview with Terri Gross of NPR's Fresh Air broadcast November 19, 2009, Orville Schell stated that there are two types of democracy: the U.S. form which has become increasingly maladaptive. It cannot adapt quickly to the huge challenges that the world is now facing, Global Warming being the most urgent. The other form of democracy is the Chinese which is a form of "Autocratic Democracy" where the people are willing to delegate authority to their autocratic government to act in ways that guarantee economic growth. This form of democracy is highly and quickly adaptive. It is not encumbered by the special interest/single interest power blocks found in the U.S. form, and it appears to be much more able to act decisively to deal with the complexities of the world of today.

[edit] Personal

He is the older brother of Jonathan Schell.[9]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Schell, Orville (moderator) (September 22-26, 2002). "Food and the Environment : The Costs, Benefits, and Consequences of Modern Food Production" (website and video archive). University of California, Berkeley (conference proceedings). http://journalism.berkeley.edu/conf/food/. Retrieved 2007-01-18. 
  2. ^ Fink, Liz (August 11, 2005). "Niman Ranch: High on the hog". San Francisco Business Times. http://www.bizjournals.com/entrepreneur/2005/08/11/. Retrieved 2007-01-18. 
  3. ^ Schell, Orville (April, 1984). Modern Meat : Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm. p. 337. ISBN 978-0394518909. 
  4. ^ “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” January 30, 1968 New York Post
  5. ^ "UC Berkeley Dean Resigns". Oakland Tribune. April 26, 2006. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060421/ai_n16154653. Retrieved 2007-01-18. 
  6. ^ Rubenstein, Steve (May 27, 2007). "New dean chosen for journalism school". San Francisco Chronicle. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/27/BAGOKQ2J2U1.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea. Retrieved 2007-07-04. 
  7. ^ Pogrebin, Robin (September 26, 2006). "Journalist and China Expert to Head Center at Asia Society". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/arts/26asia.html. Retrieved 2008-07-26. 
  8. ^ Kincaid, Cliff (February 9, 2009). "Global Television for Our Future Global Leader". Right Side News. http://www.rightsidenews.com/200902093625/editorial/global-television-for-our-future-global-leader.html. Retrieved 2009-02-10. 
  9. ^ UC Berkeley Journalism - Faculty - The journalism dean searches for intelligent life in the media
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