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...just as the constitution of The Crimson reflects the growing ethnic diversity of both the Harvard College student body and the United States itself, the newspaper remains a deeply American institution. Only four of the 137th guard’s 95 executives—with apologies to an editor who hails from London, England but was principally educated in Manhattan—went to high schools outside the United States. The troubling conclusion is that The Crimson is less than half as international as the student body as a whole. It would be irresponsible at best for the leadership...
Many student groups at Harvard are American almost by nature. It is easy to see, for instance, why most foreign students choose to join the Harvard International Relations Council over the College Democrats or Republicans. At first glance, The Crimson does not fit neatly into either camp. Its primary beat is the Harvard campus itself, something that surely ought to interest all Harvard students equally. Moreover, the journalistic skills acquired while working on The Crimson are applicable to print media in any country...
...Crimson should make an effort to change the inherently American focus of its staff. Where foreign students have joined the Crimson, they have often enriched it immensely: “Foreign Intelligence,” Pierpaolo Barbieri ‘09’s reasoned and enlightened column, substantially enhanced the editorial page during its run. Barbieri drew our attention to regions of the world usually ignored by headline news and shied away from superficial, poorly informed analysis of the kind that followed the Mumbai attacks...
...long run, the top leadership of The Crimson would do well to acknowledge this trend and explore ways to counteract it. Fifty years from now, a third of the student body may well be international—and The Crimson, hopefully, will have become more international with...
Brittney L. Moraski ‘09, former Crimson editor...