Irony

To the Editors of The Crimson:

Your editorial of March 13, says: "It is unethical whether on personal or private time for a professor to agree to not reveal the source of his funding...."

It is ironic that The Crimson feels entitled to pronounce on what is and is not ethical behavior. Where was ethical behavior when The Crimson saw fit to use a private contract stolen from private files as a basis for a string of news stories and commentaries last fall and winter, without revealing the source?

It is doubly ironic that the Institute of Politics of the Kennedy School earlier in March saw fit to honor one of these stories with an award for "best political journalism."

It is good to have a CEA (Central Ethical Agency) on campus as guardian of the university's most cherished values: arrogance and hypocrisy. I hope it won't delay in "letting the world know where Harvard stands." Anita Safran