Harvard’s daily student paper, The Crimson, was on hand when a PLO representative spoke on campus. After the speech, reporter David Hausman quoted student reactions. Oddly enough, one of the students whose reaction he quoted was his own editor:
Nadia O. Gaber ’09, president of the Harvard Society of Arab Students and a Crimson editorial editor, said Safieh’s even-handed approach impressed her.
“He was so reasonable,” she said. “I think everyone in attendance really thought that he was an incredible speaker.”
Gaber’s entitled to her views, but this clearly isn’t the proper forum for an editor to express them. We also wonder about the reporter: Were there not enough students in the auditorium that Hausman needed to quote his own editor in the first place?
