The OSM associate director for editorial advises the newspaper staff but has no control over or responsibility for The Crimson White's content.
All staff positions and titles are dependent upon the current Editor-in-Chief and are traditionally decided in mid-April after the next year's editor has been selected.
The paper originally was a weekly publication but added editions through the years until reaching a four-days-a-week printing schedule by the 1980s.
Senator John Sparkman, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer Ron Casey, and Chicago Tribune legal affairs reporter Jan Crawford Greenburg.
Other famous former CW staffers include longtime New York Yankees broadcaster Mel Allen, Crazy in Alabama author Mark Childress, and New Journalism pioneer Gay Talese.