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Robert J. Fenster ’03, a biochemical sciences concentrator in Eliot House, was an associate editorial chair of The Crimson...
...judgement on some of the biggest issues bouncing around the Oxford campus—in an American accent. The columnist hails from another vaunted institution in the little town of Cambridge—Massachusetts, that is—and belongs to none other than Crimson Editorial Editor Robert J. Fenster ’03. “I don’t know that much about Oxford,” Fenster admits, “which is what makes...
...Fenster was recruited as part of the Oxford Student’s endeavor to add a different perspective to their op-ed pages. What, after all, could be more alien than an American? The editors of Oxford’s campus weekly solicited The Crimson for a columnist and Fenster, who is a familiar face among the ranks of The Crimson op-ed team, volunteered. He soon found himself in an enviable situation—an ocean separates himself from the scrutiny of his editors and a weekly allotment of 400 words is his to use on whatever topic...
...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 away from traditional government funding), Oxford’s weekly tiptoes along the line...
...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...