Where the story is really the students I mean an
individual robs a bank or whatever then the public

has a right to know who that is and so forth. But
in this case  I assume the story was really about

here's the university where students are
dressing in racist and offensive ways and

is it you know what should be done about
that that's the question that's been in

the public discourse. So in that in that sense
the story really wasn't the students but rather

their actions and and whether it was one student
or another wasn't so much the issue i mean the

point wasn't that the individual students were
going to be disciplined or jailed or whatever

it was more to generate a public discussion
about appropriate behavior and what do we do

about racist speech or racist expression or you know those kinds of things. And so,

the blurring of the faces in no way got in the way of the story or diminished the story. The

story would be the same sort of regardless of
what students were dressing up as the way they

were dressing. If individuals came out in offensive,
racist costumes as part of a statement of in favour

of racism or at a at an alt-right rally or
whatever that would be perfectly appropriate

to show their faces and everything but as I
understand it these students weren't trying to

make a public statement in the public domain. They were participating in a private party.

So that doesn't mean their behaviour was okay it
wasn't but how you cover it might be different.