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...come to these meetings for answers. And I didn’t get any,” Snyder said. “I think there’s a huge disconnect between the community of Allston and Harvard,” he added. The 74-page master plan, which broadly outlines Harvard’s activities in Allston for the next 50 years, calls for the construction of a four-building science complex, an art museum, and the rerouting of several roads in the area. Harvard Director of Communications Kevin M. McCluskey ’76 justified the vagueness...
...term begins and the 134th Crimson executive guard assumes its duties, we want to take a moment to explain how the editorial page and the opinions on it are produced each day. The process of deciding what to write and who gets to write is a largely hidden from the view of our readers. We believe that the process merits some explanation so that you have a better understanding of why we print what we do, and how your own opinion can be heard on our page...
Broadly, opinion pieces fall into two categories: unsigned “staff editorials” that appear on the upper 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 (see more on staff editorials below), and second, we solicit and edit signed content...
From time to time, the editorial page will publish a dissenting opinion to a staff editorial, especially when the feelings among those at editorial board meetings are closely divided. These “dissents” are short pieces signed by a few Crimson editors that offer a viewpoint substantially different from that expressed in the corresponding staff editorial. They are only published in response to staff editorials deemed by the editorial chairs to be of significant importance and only when the dissent offered is sufficiently original and thought-provoking...
Sometimes, the editorial board actively solicits particular pieces for the page; other times, we publish pieces that are submitted to us unsolicited. In any case, signed pieces do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board. In fact, we tend to give our writers, especially our columnists and editorial cartoonists, a substantial amount of free reign in choosing their topics; we value clarity and originality of an argument over the particular content of the argument itself...