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...categories, Outstanding Theater Group andOutstanding Music Group (Choral Singing), haddefault winners because the other organizationsnominated had declined to participate. The awardswere given to the Immediate Gratification Playersand Kuumba. One category, for Outstanding ACappella Group, was dropped altogether...
...Institute of Politics or the Grape Coalition--which political or social action group was more "outstanding" this year? Which was the concert of the year--the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra or Kuumba, or the Pitches' and Krokodiloes' Valentines' Day Jam? And which is the House of the year? Cabot, Dunster, Kirkland, Leverett or the write-in of your choice...
Legal technicalities aside, there are broader issues of journalistic priorities. Should a newspaper cite sources against their wishes? Kuumba members were perhaps most upset over this blatant violation of their stated desire for privacy. The Crimson responds with a hardball journalistic obligation to report the news. As Mandel puts it, "The story was newsworthy, and it could not be written without those e-mails. At that point, a newspaper has an obligation to use the sources even against the wishes of the writers." Granade reiterates this commitment, "It's like the Pentagon Papers--If it's newsworthy, the community deserves...
...community, it has to consider implications beyond the commercial proposition of the story at any cost. The paper has responsibilities to the cohesiveness of the community and to building a spirit of mutual respect and courtesy. And this spirit, at the very least, was definitely betrayed in this case. Kuumba members like Brunton point out, "the story could have been written without quoting those people. There were plenty of others who were happy to cooperate." Perhaps the story would not have had as much bang, perhaps it would not have been as sensational it was, but it would have avoided...
Perhaps newsworthiness does trump this warm and fuzzy issue of spirit, but does it trump a commitment to a basic code of reporting policies? After all, most Kuumba members did not have a problem with the story itself, but rather to how the story was reported. "I agree it was newsworthy, and I am glad the story was written," says Brunton, "but not this way, not by pulling people's private e-mails. You don't expect this from a reputable news source, you don't expect it from The Crimson." Kristin Williams '00, vice president of Kuumba, was more...