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 Crimsonreports (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:
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