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Some of the most interesting comments I've received in recent weeks relate to the relentless commercialization of The Crimson, Harvard, and the world in general. Of course, I'm referring to The Crimson's alliance with Mountain Dew. Many Crimson readers were annoyed and disturbed by the advertisement that read, "The Harvard Crimson presents The Primal Scream," featuring Mountain Dew's slogan, "Do the scream, do the dew." One reader correctly pointed out that The Primal Scream will happen (and has always happened) without the input or sponsorship of The Crimson or of soft drink manufacturers...
...most interesting e-mails I received had to do with the Sports section. One reader was puzzled by The Crimson's repeated use of the rather archaic term "cagers" in headlines about the basketball team. Why not "Hoops," he suggested, or "B-Ball?" (A few other readers I queried on the topic said that they had never heard the term "Cagers" used in any other place, but had come to expect that The Crimson was referring to basketball...
...word usage issue came up a while ago when The Crimson used the word "normalcy" in a headline. One reader questioned the usage, asking whether the word "normalcy" is a proper one. It is. According to William Safire's "New Political Dictionary," the word first came into general use in the presidential campaign of Warren Harding in 1920 (the word itself dates back to at least 1857), and is generally accepted in newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Since The Crimson's usage is backed up by an authority such as Safire (whose language...
Noelle Eckley '00 is The Crimson's reader representative. She can be reached at eckley...
...subject of race. It is not mentioned a great deal in Paradise, perhaps because nearly all the characters are black. It is almost impossible to identify the white woman whose shooting is announced in the novel's opening sentence. As the women drift, singly, into the Convent, the reader--knowing what lies in store for the white one--must wonder: Is it Mavis? Grace? Seneca? Pallas...