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...news board is the heart of the paper, and the news comp is a thorough and challenging introduction to the Crimson, the University, and the craft of daily journalism. From your first day on the job you'll be reporting and writing stories, many of which will appear in the next day's paper. Working closely with a tutor, you'll learn the standard news form and style; aided by an assignment editor, you'll discover how to dig up information. And the Sports Cube covers the length and breadth of the Harvard athletic scene. Our sportswriters travel...
...many ways the most novel part of the paper. The Crimson's editorial page--page two--is reserved for reviews, political discussions, and "think pieces" of every sort. Whatever your ideology or interest, all we ask is a sincere comittment to honest thinking and good writing. And during the comp we will do our best to teach you; one editor will work one-on-one with you, and every member of the board will review your writing...
Columbia Law Review (Columbia University), Columbia mixes a writing competition and grade selection, says editor-in-chief Daniel Leffell. A certain number of the top writing comp scorers make the review regardless of their grades and the rest of the editors are selected on both grades and writing comp results, weighted 70/30. Individuals are not told how they made the review. "There's been a fair amount of lamenting the low proportion of applications from minorities and women. The 30 third-year editors at Columbia include 10 women but no minorities; the 34 second-year editors include five women...
...York University Law Review (New York University): The selection process at NYU is undergoing a "transition," according to outgoing editor-in-chief Nancy Morawetz. In the most recent class, about ten editors selected solely on writing comp performance, about 15 solely on grades, and about 15 weighting both equally. NYU has also just instituted a "publishable note program" similar to the Yale system. But Morawetz says that because NYU is a larger school than Yale, students will be expected to the initiative receiving less assistance from current editors in preparing their notes. Affirmative action was discussed last year, she adds...
...review notes and perform tasks like checking citations, says outgoing president Adam W. Glass '78. "There's some self-selection--people drop out, and we vote on the people who are left," he says. "The process is as blind as possible, but in the second half of the comp when people are working around the office it's hard to be completely anonymous." Glass says that race and gender are considered a "valid topic for discussion" at these election meetings, but that the review has no formal affirmative action plan. Of 65 current editors, 16 are women, three are Black...