Word: caine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that The Crimson has a decidedly un-diverse staff, is part of an attempt by the paper to recruit and retain minority and female writers. The letter was co-signed by Todd F. Braunstein '97, The Crimson's president, and The Crimson's two diversity co-chairs, Victoria E.M. Cain '97 and Corinne E. Funk...
...Monday, I talked with Victoria Cain about the new effort. She explained that the present recruitment effort is just one facet of a larger program to make The Crimson a paper capable of representing the entire Harvard community...
...plan that Cain and her co-chair Corinne Funk developed includes both an outreach program to attract minority and women compers and an effort to retain the new compers once they've started work. In addition to the aforementioned letter, the paper has sent out a letter to all minority and women's organizations on campus explaining the way the paper operates. Included was information about dealing with reporters, ensuring the correctness of quotations, pitching stories and registering complaints. Also planned are one-on-one meetings between Crimson executives and the heads of ethnic and women's organizations...
...impressed with Cain's honesty and straightforwardness. I tried to lead her into my little traps, asking, "Don't you think it would be a good idea to let ethnic reporters report ethnic stories?" and "Wouldn't a speech code in the building be a good idea?" To her credit, Cain didn't buy it. Experience will matter more than race in assigning sensitive stories, and in-building squabbles will be solved by mediation, not speech codes, she said...
...open letter to the Harvard community that appeared in the September 17 issue, Todd F. Braunstein '97, The Crimson's president, and The Crimson's two diversity co-chairs, Victoria E. M. Cain '97 and Corinne E. Funk '97, wrote that "Like every newspaper, The Harvard Crimson strives to print unbiased, thoroughly reported stories...