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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...
...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. Oftentimes these pieces are written by Crimson editors, though often other members of the Harvard community, or other authors, write as well...
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...
...meant to argue, expose, or discuss a particular opinion in some depth. Op-eds do 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, the editorial board favors pieces which are original or take points of view that have not been previously articulated on the editorial page. For example, if we have recently published a staff editorial on a particular topic, we are more inclined to publish an op-ed arguing the opposite point of view...
...Crimson also has several editorial cartoonists, who are given space for a weekly cartoon. Cartoonists are not limited in the scope of what they can draw. We also publish the cartoons of guest cartoonists on occasion...