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...with a boo or hiss. Gammons reflected on the extent to which baseball, whose prominence on the international stage has increased substantially in the past decade, mirrors the melting-pot composition of American culture. He recalled the words of Major League Baseball pitcher Orlando “El Duque?? Hernandez, who fled Cuba to play in the United States and later acknowledged of his fellow ballplayers: “We all came over by boat.” “In that way, baseball reflects us.” Gammons said, pointing to the parallel between Hernandez?...
...practical purposes then, Duque??s reputation is tainted...
...such as The Crimson, the Harvard Salient, or the Independent—have a difficult task in deciding what counts as news. On the one hand is the journalistic pursuit of truth; on the other is the paper’s chronicling role within the community. In Duque??s case, it seems newspapers may have done more harm than good...
Officially, The Crimson, like many other papers, has a default policy of printing publicly available information. This is a dangerous default position, as Duque??s case shows. Instead, college newspapers must consider the merits of printing students’ names on a case-by-case basis...
McMilliam praised Duque??s maturity and remorse about the incident...