Dear Tufts Daily:
The continued headline for yesterday's Features article, "Iran president's speech sparks Jumbo debate" is completely unsubstantiated.
Without further clarification from the newspaper, the sentence which reads, "Most Tufts students thought CU president was out of line in opening remarks," is a statement of opinion and has no place in the Daily outside of the Op-Ed page.
Paragraph seven of the article suggests that Tufts students were polled and that "some students said that the administration should be more respectful of the president than Columbia's administration was."
My questions are: Who did the polling? What was the polling method? Was it a random sample? What kinds of questions were asked? And what was the margin of error?
You may consider this objection to be nitpicking, but I consider it essential to maintaining journalistic integrity. It is in the best interest of the Daily and its readers to print these statistics whenever possible.
Marc Chiarini (LA '92, GA '93, GA '08)
