Word: ramoses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These expectations changed under Design Editor Dante E A.. Ramos Jr. '93. Along with Associate Business Manager Michael A. Schoen '93 and designers Nancy E. Greene '95 and James Cham '95, Ramos reworked and computerized the design of the paper.
"Not a lot of explicit design had gone on before because technically, there were a lot of limits on what you could do," Ramos says.
Then, as juniors were campaigning for the presidency of the Crimson, many of them talked to Ramos about the possibility of a design overhaul, which seemed imminent.
"We spent all this money and time working out the new computer system and we didn't see why we should be constrained by the old layout," Ramos says.
In order to rework the design for the first issue of the new executive board, the newly-elected executives browsed other newspapers, looking for features that they thought might work for The Crimson, Ramos says.