Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem was named "Compugraphic 2000"--a linebacker-sized box of wires and circuits that served, in those antediluvian days, as the paper's typesetting computer. Simply put, the damned thing wouldn't work...
...process: reporters banged out copy on the newsroom's battered Royal typewriters; editors fine-tuned the typescript with ball-point pens; down in the shop, typesetters retyped the copy to produce spools of paper punch-tape; those tapes were fed to Compugraphic, which in turn produced printed galleys that were dried, coated with wax, and pasted up on cardboard "flats" for proofing...
...After some friendly but intense negotiations, the Independent lent us its even more primitive type-setting facilities; all evening long, a steady stream of first-year compers shuttled typescript and galleys through the snows between Plympton Street and the Freshman Union. Down in the shop, we put together the paper in a frantic, beer-fueled haze. Around 5 a.m., the dread moment finally arrived--when, in the absence of pressman Lew Brooks, we would have to wrestle with The Crimson's hulking offset press by ourselves...
Leftists so dominated The Crimson in the '70s that although political discussions occurred "all the time," according to Christopher B. Daly '76, another political editor of the paper, their scope was limited by unanimity among the participants...
Journalism became a vehicle for social activism as students joined the paper not because they were interested in writing, per se, but to promote their causes...