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To the Editor:

I was appalled to read in your paper last week that, with a reckless disregard for journalistic ethics, common decency and any standard of good sense, you decided to release the name and address of Felix Qu, a Penn student currently awaiting trial for assault ("Student arrested for assault still enrolled at Penn").

While I do not condone or defend Mr. Qu's alleged crimes, which are deplorable if they occurred, whether he committed them or not is for the jury - and not for you - to decide.

Dropping "allegedly" in every second sentence doesn't cut it in an article whose tone and content is written to indict Mr. Qu without even the pretence of even-handedness.

If there were public safety implications (the only possible rational reason to publish his address), not only would the University act at once, but he probably wouldn't have been released on bail to begin with.

And if this young man is indeed proved innocent, you have done major and I daresay irreparable damage to his life at Penn for the sake of a few column inches.

Alec Webley College Freshman

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