Getting the news out is an important duty. No insight or understanding of larger issues is possible without a regular supply of day-to-day information—and ultimately these small details serve as the engine for every kind of change. To be newsworthy, stories don’t have to result in an immediate reaction. Printing information that adds to campus discussion or that might promote some greater understanding will, in the long run, serve the campus well. We feel strongly that a newspaper owes its readers the full story—printing whatever, in its editors’ best judgment, will be interesting and important to its community.
Parker R. Conrad ’02, a chemistry concentrator in Quincy House, is managing editor of The Crimson. His column will appear monthly.