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Remele fingered a caramel cashmere coat and looked over at the footage of his February fashion show displayed on a television tucked beneath one of the club??s many Harvard seals...
From another perspective, however, this social club??s e-mail archives were different simply because they were guaranteed to pique the interest of your average Harvard student. They were interesting for the same reason that paparazzi salivate about pictures of Brangelina’s new baby. By diligently cultivating their exclusivity through closed punch processes and the maintenance of close ties only with other closed social clubs, Harvard’s social clubs—male and female—make themselves targets of intense scrutiny...
Though this specific club??s e-mail archives showed that it resembled many of Harvard’s inclusive student groups in many ways, they also hinted at the unusual wealth lavished on members for no higher purpose than socializing. They acted as a window into a social world that few Harvard students are allowed to taste, much in the way that People magazine provides a window into the lives of the world’s wealthy socialites. For the roughly 90 percent of students who do not belong to an exclusive social club, these e-mails were...
...weekend gathering facts about previous social club leaks to put the incident in context. Published along with excerpts from the e-mails, the article was certainly guilty of “making” the news. Its structure implied value judgments (at least by my ken) about the club??s punch process and its members’ lifestyles. And its ending quote made the club??s punchmaster look stupid for posting the punch book online and for failing to password-protect the e-mail archives. Nowhere in the article was there any coverage of the campus?...
...hindsight, The Crimson’s coverage of the e-mail leak had little impact beyond embarrassing the club??s members, and for that I’m sorry. Our student-run artillery piece of a newspaper is always learning how to aim better. But, ultimately, in a free society, the price of enjoying unfettered access to information is sometimes finding oneself in the crosshairs...