CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE: 11

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The news story of Nov. 1 entitled "Sophomore suffers injury in 'Accident' at Claverly" reeks of editorialization. Your journalism is in severe question when you grasp for such devices as setting "accident in quotation marks and dwelling on such an irrelevancy as the "instrument" blunder.

Whether or not the occurrence was an accident is immaterial to the question at hand. The reader is quite capable of drawing his own inferences from accurately reported facts. To so report is your obligation to the reader's intelligence. Editorial innuendo has no place on the front page. W. F. Palmer '58

Mr. Palmer has a definite point, but accuracy comprises more than a list of facts. In an instance such as the one he cites, investigation showed the official version of the story to be highly doubtful. Therefore, it was the duty of the reporter to state or imply this, for otherwise, he would have been guilty of real Inaccuracy.

Whether or not the occurrence was an accident is not immaterial in the opinion of the editors. It was an important element of the story.-Ed.