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...Arthur N. Waldron. In regard to two articles by Katharine L. Day, published on May 1 and 4, Pasztor expresses outrage that a reporter dared to report statements of persons which differed from Pasztor's account of them. Day's first article did report the two reasons cited by SJP for its lack of success in recruiting speakers. It attributed the reasons to SJP because none of their potential speakers made such a statement to the CRIMSON. She reported only what she felt she could be sure of a standard reporting procedure...
Pasztor's blithe allusion to unnamed "half-truths" in articles by David R. Caploe prior to the "Counter Teach-In" is particularly infuriating in light of the fact that it was only through an article published on March 26 by Caploe that members of the Harvard community learned that SJP had-inadvertently or otherwise-seriously misrepresented its program. In fact. the only major inaccuracies in Caploe's coverage came when he trusted SJP spokesmen in their statements that the Teach-In would be addressed by the South Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States and the Royal Thai Ambassador...
PASZTOR'S attacks on Jeff Magalif's coverage of the CRR are equally unwarranted. His opinion is not shared by two graduate students who have prosecuted students charged by SJP-who have told Magalif that they thought the coverage was fair. In response to the only specific charge which Pasztor makes, Magalif states that he reported on the testimony that personal animosity existed between Pasztor and the defendant because a witness gave such testimony. He did not report that there was "lengthy film evidence which conclusively showed the defendant disrupting" because the film evidence did not show it. Again...
...standard reporting ploy to gain more information than he chose to give us. He claims to have issued us a "warning." We never received his "warning," and we dismiss it. We believe in our reporting, and no self-appointed censor will intimidate us into altering it. SJP has raised the issue of free speech in defense of some dubious propositions; one of them is that a newspaper is attacking their freedoms by refusing to allow them to censor the news. If we impinged upon Pasztor's freedoms to proclaim that the South Vietnamese Ambassador would speak at his Teach...
...CRIMSON will continue to attempt to give SJP, and all groups about whom we write, fair and complete coverage. We may succeed more at some times than at others; no newspaper can claim total objectivity. On the whole, we are proud of our coverage of SJP, and we do not propose to suffer silently a pompous lecture by Pasztor. SJP is the group which requested that Students for a Democratic Society, the Progressive Labor Party, and the Radcliffe-Harvard Liberation Alliance be banned from using University facilities because of the role played by some of their members in the disruption...