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Broadly, opinion pieces fall into two categories: unsigned “staff editorials” that appear on the left-hand side of the editorial page each day, and signed op-eds, comments, columns, letters, and artwork that appear elsewhere. As an editorial board, we have two primary tasks: first, we comprise the bulk of the Crimson editors who debate the content of staff editorials; second, we solicit and edit signed content...
...addition to our unsigned staff editorials, we publish several types of signed opinion pieces, including comments, columns, op-eds, and various types of art, including editorial cartoons. Often times these pieces are written by Crimson editors, though often other members of the Harvard community, or other authors, write as well...
...Op-eds are meant to argue, expose, or discuss a particular opinion in some depth. Op-eds may not explicitly respond to pieces that have already appeared in The Crimson, but often they tackle the same subjects that recent op-eds have dealt with. In considering which op-eds to publish, in addition to originality, we also look for a strong argument, timeliness, clarity of writing, and cleverness...
...particularly encourage op-ed submissions from individual writers who may have a particular connection to the topic they are writing about, and we require that all op-eds be signed by those individuals (up to three); we will not accept for publication articles that have been authored by an organization as a whole or pieces written under pseudonym. Op-eds are meant to examine a particular argument, not make a pitch for a particular upcoming event, and we reserve the right to edit out such references. Finally, we also consider op-art submissions, including annotated charts, a series of drawings...
...video, in which a person with an undefined disease, attended by the kind of nurses rarely seen outside of music videos and horror posters is welcomed to the black parade. He gets a variety of fabulous prizes, such as what appears to be an extremely dour photo-op with the band, eye-socket-blackening makeup which makes him look more panda-like than dead, and a medal which presumably says, “Congratulations! You’re dead!,” although too small for the viewer to read. In the end, however, he’s left wandering...