Word: editorialist
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...want to be an editorialist. I don't blame you. I wanted exactly the same thing when I was a first-year. I understand--ever since Harvard sent you that packet of student publications before your first weeks here, you've wanted to be a leader of campus opinion, to be admired by your ideological peers and to be reviled by your enemies. You've wanted to see your fellow citizens reading your work and nodding in agreement or fuming in outrage...
...gesture of good will, I've decided to play Yoda to your Luke. Here's an easy four-step program to make you the editorialist of your dreams...
Being liberal would also change my life as an editorialist. My ideas would be breathtakingly original. I can already imagine the titles of the controversial, ground-breaking editorials that would provoke heated discussion throughout the College...
Yoon states that the job of the editorialist is to "persuade, not to ridicule." As a member of the parliamentary debate team, if I have learned any thing, it's that ridiculing weak logic is one of the best ways to expose its flaws. I have a different vision of the editorialist's role in the intellectual community. Harvard students are so opinionated that persuasion is not only an extremely presumptuous goal for a writer, it's also an impossible...
...editorialist's goals are to be read and to make people think about why they hold the beliefs they do. We may often say things which upset or offend people. We should have no regrets because we are simply saying what we believe--such is our right in a democracy and intellectual community. If we get a strong response and many letters, we have done our job. By forcing people to put their principles into writing, we have made them think about and perhaps even reconsider their values...