Feature Too Glib

In your feature, "Students Ride With Ambulances, Give Medical Care," you say "the students they pick up tend to act just as stupidly as any other Cambridge resident." As a student who also happens to be a Cambridge resident I find the implications of this statement offensive. I think you should be more careful scanning your articles for possible insensitive and stupid comments.

I also was a bit shocked by how glib all of the quotes in the article were. Do participants in this program really believe that riding in an ambulance is "playing in the street?" I understand how it can be an exciting and even enjoyable experience, but I am glad that I never had to be picked up by an ambulance carrying a Harvard student out for "a lot of fun" and "more trauma." --Emily Gregory '00