Word: comped
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Marra added that The Crimson’s editorial board will be instituting training seminars for cartoonists and columnists, “not all of whom have gone through The Crimson’s rigorous content comp process.” Editors will continue to be “on alert for potential plagiarism,” Marra wrote...
...trust of the student population?In their minds, less is more. The organization has started to focus on smaller, more varied events, and gradual changes in its organizational structure.Their main initiatives have been three new campus performance events, aesthetic upgrades like a new Web site, and a newly-conceived comp process.Epstein praises the new events. “The introduction of Comedy for a Cause, Harvard Live, and Yardfest are an attempt at diversification of the HCC’s operations,” she says.Comedy for a Cause—a stand-up comedy show originally intended...
...even worse, the change would restrict the open and ever-changing culture of student activities, burdening groups with uncomfortable decisions about criteria for involvement: Would groups require that members give money? Would events only be open to donors? Would students, if they do not finish a comp, be refunded money? The current system levels the playing field and opens the door to the entrepreneurs who want to personally contribute to the campus; students can opt in or opt out of the fee depending on their whims or financial status, but none will be turned away from a UC-funded event...
Punches subject themselves to the whims of a social comp, a degrading process where they prostrate themselves before perceived social superiors, nakedly attempting to please others for acceptance. Seeing sophomores and juniors become pathetically dependent on social affirmation is a sad—albeit usually mercifully short-lived—sight...
...summer gig with the magazine by a cute woman and a cuter man. Both Harvard alumni, they were young and made me feel at ease. The woman told me how awesome it was that I wrote for The Crimson—she’d never finished her comp. I got the job. But 02138 couldn’t tell me what I would be doing, except to say it would involve a lot of research. I also got the impression that their view of Harvard was closer to what they thought readers wanted it to be than what they...