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While stories of faculty politics and administrative infighting have dominated The Crimson’s front pages, few articles published in the last two months have been as newsworthy—or as controversial—as our account of a drug arrest in Quincy House...
...everyone was pleased with the comprehensiveness of our coverage. Some readers complained about The Crimson’s policy of printing the names of students charged with drug crimes. While we take these complaints seriously, we ultimately believe that The Crimson has an obligation to provide our readers with thorough reports of campus drug arrests. That requires us to name names...
...recognize that our policy may carry serious ramifications for Harvard students who are arrested on drug charges. As one reader told us in an e-mail: “the stories that you have published are online and free information for anyone competent to run google searches. This means that for your 2 minutes of glory as journalists and editors, students at Harvard have a hugely compromised professional life.” The reader added that “absolutely no good can come from publishing the students’ names...
...arrest does “hugely compromise” the student’s future, we’re not sure whether that comes as a result of The Crimson’s decision. But we believe that good can come from publishing students’ names in drug cases...
This is especially important for drug cases. The number of people arrested on drug charges at Harvard is no doubt just a tiny fraction of the total number of Harvard community members who have used illegal substances. So how do University Police decide whom they should arrest? While we have no evidence that recent campus drug arrests follow any sort of pattern, you don’t have to take my word for it: our reports allow you to track the University Police yourself. That would be impossible if you didn’t know the identities of students charged...