Word: compe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murphy also hopes to build up a core of business-minded editors by reforming the business comp. "Most people who come to the Advocate are shy about selling ads or dealing with money," she says. "Now this is changing--people are becoming more sensitive to the fact that since we don't attract business types, everyone has to take a share in keeping the apparatus of the organization functioning properly...
While at Harvard, Weinstein has also flirted with the Lampoon comp and serious rock music. The problem with the Lampoon, he says, was the requirements. "I could just never seem to get around to handing in the half dozen articles required." As for rock, Weinstein enjoyed a brief stay with the Not. "It was fun but they used me as a singer which is clearly not my forte," says Weinstein. "After a while, it was obvious we all had different tastes." Adds Not member Tom I amont '83; "The problem with Anders was that he was too funny. He kept...
...could not have occurred anywhere else, the month of January being what it is here, it took place thanks to the particular state of affairs between this country and Iran in the first few days of a new decade; I was there because my comp at the Crimson had gotten me interested in journalism. To be true, it could never happen again...
...virtue of yet another longstanding Crimson tradition, he wouldn't become FDR until he officially joined the staff), but it wasn't quite enough. When the first batch of '04s joined the paper in February 1901, he was not among them--no disgrace in an era when the Crimson comp often took a year to complete, but proof nonetheless that it would take more than a relative in Washington to guarantee a spot. Or would it? The break that finally turned young Roosevelt into a Crimed came in April, when he called Teddy to see when they could get together...
Though the pranksters have their hopes set on one publication only, several paid a visit to The Crimson this week during an introductory meeting for the newspaper's winter comp...