Word: proofer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sunday 11:15 p.m.—The night's proofer, associate managing editor Kate L. Rakoczy '04, examines a proof of the editorial page. The proofer is responsible to ensure the accuracy of the entire issue...
...candid endpapers on being an Anglo-American hybrid would earn him a hero’s welcome from the magazine on their own. Yet the Crimson’s staff director gets extra kudos for directing FM’s staff to meet his exacting standards as proofer. FM’s favourite Brit never fails to catch and criticise a spelling mistake, but is always eager to relieve us of a few aluminium cans of American beer and keep the crew in good humour. The staff were always keen to have him proof, especially when he told us that...
...Proofer Kim K. Aaron ’04 has thanked Gossip Guy for making her job this semester easier by avoiding offensive and backwards stereotypes of clannish Asians, drunken Irish, lazy blacks, penny-pinching Jews or promiscuous gays. Kim, you’re welcome...
Proofing FM has not exactly made answering that question easy.As FM proofer, you have to be the enforcer of the minutiae of Crimson form. I have probably removed upward of 1,000 serial commas from the magazine, changed a hundred “freshmen” to “first-years” and insisted dozens of times over that even if we’re talking about University President Lawrence H. Summers’ eating habits or love life, we can’t just refer to him as “Larry.” Starting...
...time at The Crimson, and proofing FM, I didn’t want to let my love for the paper gloss over the dirty details of the past three years at 14 Plympton St. But I think those harrowing what-if-I-just-snuck-out-the-side-door FM proofer moments are exactly the root of my sentimentality about The Crimson. Those moments of extreme sacrifice are a main component of what has made The Crimson worth the slip in my grades and worth not seeing my roommates for days at a time. While I am proud of being...