1.12.2004
Crimson Gets Redesign, Color
"After 131 years of staid blacks and musty grays, The Harvard Crimson features actual crimson—and the full spectrum of colors—on its front page today, marking a new era for the University’s daily newspaper.
The Crimson also unveils a complete redesign in today’s issue to accompany the changeover..."
Looks like I'll have to pick up a copy next time I'm in Cambridge (which'll probably be in a weekend or two).
MORE: A look back:
"Editors at The Crimson—who often, like all journalists, refer to adding 'color' to daily news stories—previously have never had the option of adding real color to their articles, whether in the form of cream shading behind news text or color photography adjacent to articles.SEE ALSO: Harvard is facing a mental health crisis: "A six-month investigation by The Crimson has found that the College faces a pervasive mental health crisis and that, because of systemic problems with its mental health resources, Harvard is failing to adequately treat its students..."
When The Crimson was born in 1873, known then as The Magenta in accordance with the College’s official color of the time, what would become the nation’s oldest continually published college newspaper was still a far cry from the operation at 14 Plympton St. today.
After moving from four to five columns in 1920, The Crimson used its own hot-type presses with hired typists setting increasingly arcane lead type.
Former Crimson President Osborne F. Ingram '35 recalled sending his finished stories down a chute in the newsroom to the typists in the basement.
'When they were out of copy downstairs, they would bang on the chute,' Osborne said..."
Profile of a Harvard junior working for the Lieberman campaign.
Crimson columnist uses the Chinese premier's visit and a student's protest of it as a jumping off point on the larger issue of China.
Harvard Law School gay rights group files a brief against the Pentagon on the Solomon Amendment.
A fourth incident of sexual assault in Harvard Square in four months, the Crimson's Hana Alberts reports.
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