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Despite these efforts, however, many "facts" never made it into The Crimson's coverage at all. One of the most important facts, indeed, was wrong. For an entire month, until the day after the referendum, The Crimson misstated Stanford University's policy on grapes. Though Crimson coverage repeatedly claimed that Stanford did not serve grapes in dining halls, Stanford students in fact vote in each dining hall each year to decide whether grapes will be served. Harvard students needed to know what policies other colleges, especially those in California, have on serving grapes in dining halls. After a month...
...grape referendum has shown the tremendous impact and presence that The Crimson can have on campus, especially now that the paper is free to all undergraduates. The Crimson has shown its sensitivity to presenting a range of opinions and avoiding bias in its coverage. However, diversity alone does not ensure responsible journalism. The Crimson staff should be conscious that it is running a newspaper, not a public access channel. The shortcomings in Crimson coverage probably did not bias voting toward either side of the debate. The only losers were the voters, who lost the chance to get beyond the poster...
...surprised that a majority of students who participated in the "Great Grape Referendum" voted to bring grapes back to the dining hall. Who wants to pay homage to political correctness--even in academia, where liberalism is still somewhat fashionable...
...fact is that most people on this campus care very little about the grapeworkers in California, at least not enough for them to affect our culinary options. There are good reasons to vote "yes" on the referendum, but probably very few voted on such principled convictions. Instead, the referendum recorded amazing apathy for issues of social justice, coupled with a favorable opinion of grapes. But given the sad step backward signaled by last Wednesday's vote, if the dining halls serve grapes, those of us who voted against them should not eat them. We cannot hope to effectively pressure...
...relative obscurity of most of the candidates before it began, more students voted in this popular election than in either of the previous two, Turnout numbered 3,084 students, just shy of the 3,166 students who voted in last week's Harvard Dining Services' campus-wide referendum on serving grapes in the dining halls...