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With the specter of prison hovering over their heads, I wonder how well Suzanne M. Pomey ’02 and Randy J. Gomes ’02 sleep at night. I occasionally have trouble sleeping the night before a big test and that is a trifle of a trial compared to what awaits these alleged partners in crime. In a way, however, their impending prosecution might seem like a small relief after the persecution they have received on campus in these tabloidal weeks since their story broke. At least you can count on a judge and jury...
...issues ago, Fifteen Minutes ran a lengthy scrutiny that attempted to put the purported crimes of Pomey and Gomes in a life-historical context. In thoroughly disconcerting fashion, the article laid bare past indiscretions, using interviews with old teachers, hometown community members and “friends” of Pomey and Gomes to make clear the point that such alleged ethical lapses as the Pudding pilfer are hardly surprising coming from either of the accused. But in the effort to contextualize the accusations (which, by the way, it did very well), the article accomplished several other less desirable purposes...
Delawala’s invocation of “right” in defense of the scandal coverage is indicative of all that is unseemly about the way the Harvard community has rallied against Pomey and Gomes; rights are often what we use to justify not caring about other people, be it as businessmen, journalists or private citizens. At times they are the assertion of personal entitlement over humane consideration and in this situation I think that our right to skewer and expose Pomey and Gomes is better left shelved...
Because that’s what the explosion of commentary surrounding Pomey and Gomes amounts to: a particularly cruel form of punishment. Information cannot be disseminated neutrally and opinion cannot be offered academically. The words we write have a very real effect on the people we write them about and it is in this light that we must carefully consider what we publish. If we need to chronicle the history of Pomey’s ethical difficulties and Gomes’ personal problems in order to understand the crime they may have committed, frankly I think it?...
...world we live in may sanction and even encourage the type of treatment that Pomey and Gomes have received from the Harvard press, but in the end that alone does not justify it. While the rules of the game might entitle The New York Times to objectify Pomey and Gomes in the name of good journalism, it does not mean that we need to embrace similar standards within our community. As college students we possess the unique combination of professional-level skills without real world pressure to use them. We are insulated from the demands of profit and job performance...