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...October 8, 1993. Do you know what a "comp...
...course you do; this is Harvard. Maybe you're comping something yourself. After all, this is fall--season of the comp. Comptober...
...where are you, then? Have you made the first cut? Been invited to the first you-may-already-be-a-winner cocktail party for comp finalists? And if you're comping The Harvard Crimson, have you done your required "Tommy's run" yet? (Remember: that's two Sweet-n-Lows, two creams in Pat's coffee...
...there a Mr. T comp?" bellowed a deep, brute voice in the comedy library of the purportedly comical magazine. "Because...I'm the best Mr. T on campus...
...correct chauvinistic excesses, the staff engages in a silly harangue against "classism" and the "old-boy network." On these very issues, the staff is hardly innocent. Crimson compers surely anticipate the "well-placed connections" that semesters' worth of duty provide. In fact, dozens of students each year complete the comp process, never to return to 14 Plympton, remembering their position only around resume time. And if there is any clique at Harvard known for not dealing with "people unlike themselves," it is the staff...