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...appalled by today’s front-page article “Gay Student Alleges Assault” (News, May 2). My outrage begins with the title, which gives the impression that the student’s claim to have been assaulted is the news item, not the assault itself. The article continues in this vein: the subtitle states that the senior “says he was victim of assault,” and the first sentence reads: “An openly gay undergraduate was allegedly assaulted as he walked on Bow Street Friday night...
Whenever anything happens in Cambridge, from a student performance to a “groping” or a car catching fire, The Crimson reports that it happened, not that somebody claimed it happened. In reporting this assault, which I regard as a most worrying event, The Crimson all of a sudden places strong emphasis on the victim’s subjective perception, not on the event itself. There were six witnesses to the event (according to your article) besides the assaulted student himself—why not just write that he was, in fact, assaulted...
Your article gives the impression that incident was not really an assault, but that this oh-so-sensitive “openly gay” person just thinks it was an assault. I am aware that the term “hate crime” is a legal term, but why not write that the incident is likely to have been a hate crime, or that it yet has to be decided whether it was a hate crime, rather than reducing the hateful nature of the assault to the assaulted student’s singular perception...
...Officers were alerted to a news crew on Harvard property near Adams House, possibly without a permit, attempting to report on the assault of a Harvard student. The crew was reported near the Science Center and the Yard but it was determined that they, in fact, did have a permit...
...Chancellor Gerhard Schröder snatched a narrow electoral victory in 2002, he garnered desperately needed votes by opposing George W. Bush's plans to invade Iraq. Now, in the run-up to crucial elections in North Rhine-Westphalia later this month, his party has launched a new assault. This time the target is Anglo Saxon-style capitalism. Franz Müntefering, chairman of the Social Democrats (SPD), inveighed against "swarms of locusts that fall on companies, stripping them bare before moving on." The inspiration for this alarming imagery was identified last week when his headquarters leaked a "locust list...