Word: comped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...editors are chosen in a writing competition, and an affirmative action program has been underway since the early 1970s, according to editor-in-chief Terry Lippert. The editors decide the number of new members the need to put the magazine out before they start; they then screen the writing comp to eliminate those students who don't meet a minimum standard. The editors pick the number of new editors they decided upon from the top scorers in the comp, and then examine this group. If it does not meet the same percentage goals for minority groups as the law school...
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...