A Charge Of Racism

To the Editors:

Yesterday The Crimson printed a letter to the editor in which Haneen M. Rabie '95 and Layla F. Sahyoun '94, members of the Society of Arab Students, charged me with racism in the handling of their Harvard Foundation grant application. The charges are unsubstantiated and false, and the fact that The Crimson printed them without attempting to confirm them or get a response from me attests to The Crimson's low (nonexistent?) standards of journalistic ethics.

I will speak to these charges at a meeting with Dean Epps and Professors Dowling and Harrington on Thursday afternoon. Unlike Rabie and Sahyoun, I believe that this matter would be better resolved through the Dean's office than through the pages of this tabloid.

After Thursday's meeting, however, I look forward to correcting Rabie and Sahyoun's misunderstandings in these, pages. Kenneth A. Katz '93,   Member,   Student Advbisory Committee   Harvard Foundation