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''The Harvard Crimson'', the daily student newspaper of Harvard University, was founded in 1873.〔, p. 137: "After the Civil War ... on almost every campus a publication was established which modeled its form, content, and purpose on regular daily newspapers. The ''Yale Daily News'', first to be founded, is still in operation. The ''Harvard Crimson'' began in 1873 as a more newsy rival of ''The Advocate''. Ten years later, it merged with a competitor to become a daily."〕 It is the only daily newspaper in Cambridge, Massachusetts,〔(Massachusetts Newspapers ) lists two other Cambridge papers--''The Tech'', which is a biweekly paper, and ''The Cambridge Chronicle'', which is a weekly〕 and is run entirely by Harvard College undergraduates. Many Crimson alumni have gone on to careers in journalism, and some have won Pulitzer Prizes. ==About ''The Crimson''== Any student who volunteers and completes a series of requirements known as the "comp" is elected an editor of the newspaper.〔Several Harvard student groups, including the ''Harvard Lampoon'' and Harvard Advocate, use the term "comp" to refer to their training and selection process of new members. The term is often considered an abbreviation for "competition", although ''Crimson'' editors say that their use of the word "comp" is an abbreviation for "competency", emphasizing the training aspect of the comp.〕 Thus, all staff members of ''The Crimson''—including writers, business staff, photographers, and graphic designers—are technically "editors". (If an editor makes news, he or she is referred to in the paper's news article as a "''Crimson'' editor", which, though important for transparency, also leads to characterizations such as "former President John F. Kennedy '40, who was also a ''Crimson'' editor, ended the Cuban Missile Crisis.") Editorial and financial decisions rest in a board of executives, collectively called a "guard", who are chosen for one-year terms each November by the outgoing guard. This process is referred to as the "turkey shoot" or the "shoot". The unsigned opinions of "''The Crimson'' Staff" are decided at tri-weekly meetings that are open to any ''Crimson'' editor (except those editors who plan to write or edit a news story on the same topic in the future). ''The Crimson'' is almost the only college newspaper in the U.S. that owns its own printing presses. At the beginning of 2004 ''The Crimson'' began publishing with a full-color front and back page, in conjunction with the launch of a major redesign. ''The Crimson'' also prints over fifteen other publications on its presses. ''The Crimson'' has a rivalry with the ''Harvard Lampoon'', which it refers to in print as a "semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine". "Young Rich pens book deal", is one example of this running joke: "Penning books in the humor category seems fitting because Rich, as the statement takes care to mention, is the president of the ''Harvard Lampoon'', a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine."〔Harvard Crimson, February 1, 2006〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Young Rich Lands Book Deal )〕 The two organizations occupy buildings within less than one block of each other; interaction between their staff has included pranks, vandalism, and even romance.〔 An example of a ''Crimson''-''Lampoon'' romance that ended in a "rumble on the prairie" and marriage.〕 ''Crimson'' alumni include Presidents John F. Kennedy of the Class of 1940 (who served as a business editor) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (who served as president of the newspaper), Class of 1904. Writer Cleveland Amory was president of ''The Crimson;'' when Katharine Hepburn's mother asked him what he planned to do after college, he says he replied teasingly that "once you had been president of ''The Harvard Crimson'' in your senior year at Harvard there was very little, in after life, for you." Currently, ''The Crimson'' publishes two weekly pullout sections in addition to its regular daily paper: an Arts section on Tuesdays and a magazine called ''Fifteen Minutes'' on Thursdays. ''The Crimson'' is a nonprofit organization that is independent of the university. All decisions on the content and day-to-day operations of the newspaper are made by undergraduates. The student leaders of the newspaper employ several non-student staff, many of whom have stayed on for many years and have come to be thought of as family members by the students who run the paper. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Harvard Crimson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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