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...allotment of 400 words is his to use on whatever topic he pleases. The column is even published uncensored, so as to preserve all that is genuinely American. The objective was to get the Harvard spin on Oxford and eventually to set up an exchange—Natalie Toms, Fenster??s editor at the Oxford Student, wrote her first piece in last week’s Crimson...
...Fenster??s freedom to write what he pleases isn’t so extraordinary in the view of nonchalant Oxfordians. If the Oxford Student is any indication, the British don’t seem to censor much of anything. The Oxford Student is “a little more tabloid-ish, a little more edgy,” says Fenster. With such telling headlines as “Shit Happens” (over student council elections) and “Surrey to Sell Out” (when Britain’s Surrey University took an initiative to break...
...Crimson, Fenster is quick to acknowledge, is “a very different paper. We would never run [those headlines] in the Crimson—ever, ever, ever.” Fenster??s familiarity with FM on this point is a bit suspect. The column is a welcome creative outlet for him, especially after the past few years of the high-strung Crimson culture. “It’s more like a fun project for me than a sort of serious column. I tended to get a little self-indulgent when I wrote my columns...
...Fenster??s much sought-after stance on the question that matters most, whether Oxford or Harvard is more pretentious? “Oxford,” he says emphatically. “But our newspaper is way more pretentious...
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