The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a favorite civil liberties group of many conservatives--which I agree has done some good work in the past--has released a year in review for 2007. This item is listed under "successes":

• Ending Brown University’s semester-long suspension of an evangelical student group, which was imposed on dubious grounds and without any explanation from Brown

It’s pretty well-established that being an editor at the Harvard Crimson is a meaningless, strictly resume-padding distinction. (The relevant headline: Harvard Crimson Has 800 Editors. Literally.) But being the president of the Crimson is, at least as far as these things go, significant. The Crimson reports (via Romenesko):

Malcom A. Glenn ’09 will lead the newly elected 135th Guard of The Harvard Crimson, the paper’s outgoing president announced Friday.

Glenn, a history concentrator from Denver, Colo. and Leverett House, has served as an associate on the Sports board since February … [and] will be the first black president of The Crimson in more than a half-century.

First off—and set aside the Crimson’s relentless pretensions (must a student newspaper have a frickin “Guard”?)—congratulations to Glenn on his ascension. Second, I’d like to underscore just how remarkable that last line is: “the first black president of The Crimson in more than a half-century.” This is a milestone, but, in some sense, a sad one. I wrote about this on CP over the summer:

It’s not the first time he’s said it, but former UN Ambassador and current Hillary Clinton campaign advisor Richard Holbrooke laid out his views on Iraq in the starkest terms in an interview published today in the Brown Daily Herald: