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Students enrolled here during the year are invited to participate in a normal comp. Students enrolled at other schools are invited to begin writing as often as they wish...
While some of the pieces you will see this spring will be done by people who aren't on the regular Crimson staff, most magazine writing requires tools people learn in the Crimson Comp. Certainly there are other places to learn the same things, but the Crimson is convenient and usually pretty thorough. We strongly recommend that you try the Comp if you are interested in working on non-fiction articles for the Supplement; you will make your prose clearer and you will have a better understanding of what it takes to produce an undergraduate publication...
...back door and walked up the back stairs and weren't seen in the front of the building. Okay, where was The Crimson when this was going on? But more to my point, where were women on The Crimson? In 1965 during Linda McVeigh Matthew's exec. comp. the Harvard football team held its annual dinner here in this very building. That was during the week she was trial sports editor and she showed up to cover it, and of course they didn't let her in. Did we raise a fuss and threaten to boycott all future coverage...
...drag us much against our will, kicking and screaming into some awareness of what an adult remale role was going to be for us in this society. Radcliffe stories when they were written at all were left to candidates or if we weren't lucky enough to have a comp going on, to baby editors...
Robert Decherd: Thank ya Lynda. The last speaker tonight I think might be able to tell us a little bit about things that did change very rapidly, to which Linda alluded. Jim Fallows was president of The Crimson in 1969-70. When I was comping fall of freshman year I remember being in awe of him at the time, (laughter). I still have a little bit, you may understand why when I tell you a little about him. The story goes, I'm not sure whether it's true or not, that when Jim came to The Crimson...