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There have been problems. There have been misquotes. There have been people listed with fake names and years (women's tennis has been especially bad). And now, there is a letter to the community from Reader Representative Shawn C. Zeller '97 addressing this. I was relieved...
...Several readers contacted me to voice their objections to the way the stories were covered. One reader argued that The Crimson's stories were sensationalist. She argued that running the pictures of the two students with the April 12 article showed poor taste, only eclipsed by the cruel decision to call the parents of the accused for the April 16 story. Blankenship's father was not even aware his son had been arrested until The Crimson contacted him five days after the arrest...
Furthermore, this reader accused The Crimson of creating news through its own sensationalism. She pointed out that Currier residents were not even aware of the arrests when questioned for the April 12 article, yet four days later, The Crimson titled its article "Currier Shocked by Drug Arrests." Of course, the students would not have been shocked at all if The Crimson had not itself created the reaction to the arrests of Blankenship and David. Given that Blankenship and David had not yet been convicted of any crimes, she argued, these two stories were insensitive to the two students and their...
Shawn C. Zeller '97 is The Crimson's ombudsperson, or reader representative. He can be reached by phone at 493-2568 or by e-mail at szeller@fas..harvard.edu. He is neither a Crimson executive nor a Crimson editor, and his opinions are his alone...
...high as Steele's and Krantz's in breathy descriptions of dressing, undressing and furniture, have a brassy realism that saves them from the trash bin. And even though peace has broken out in the author's life, with the usual corrosive effects on a satirical viewpoint, the reader suspects that there are more battle communiques to be written in the ancient and always up-to-date war between the women...