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Article: COLUMN: Harvard Crimson's price tag on history too steep
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- August 3, 2001
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Jonathan Katz
University Wire
08-03-2001
(Daily Northwestern) (U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill. -- Here's a joke: What's the difference between the Harvard Crimson and every other college paper in the country?
Answer: $500,000 and a bunch of disabled Cambodians.
You don't get it. Let me explain.
In 1999, a disgruntled staffer erased the Crimson's online archives. It was a disaster for the student newspaper, leaving its reporters to do research by thumbing through bound volumes. After what I can only presume were several -- if not dozens -- of paper cuts, the paper's staff made a decision: They would restore the archives.
But somebody had an even better idea. Why stop at the mid-1990s? Why not put ...