Word: comps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When I was a naïve, wide-eyed freshman in a bare-bones FM comp (oh, how things don’t change), I learned from my editors and from my news-comping, soon-to-be-blockmate. Amit R. Paley ’04 taught me how to make an FTM work and how to stand up to a source. When I did a research assistant stint for Parker R. Conrad ’02-’03, he treated me like someone who deserved to hear his thoughts about where his scrutiny was going. I knew nothing...
...Take proofing FM, for example. By the time I get my hands on a page on Tuesday night, it’s already been devoured by dozens of eyes. Hours have been poured into comp seminars to instruct the writer on how to interview sources and structure the story. After editing, a slightly improved version emerges that still has to jump the hurdles of further inspection. While writers and editors sweat through words, designers and photographers unite to make the page look appealing, obsessing over spacing and lines. By the time the story reaches my desk, always later than...
...Annie! If you pass out in Candia, you will be stripped of your comp director position so fast your head will spin more than it does now!” screamed Green. Lowrey hiccupped. “Geez. Caitlin, A. Haven, drag her to the side, please,” Green ordered. “Evan, Meghan, stop making out. Five, six, seven, eight...
...much to change the sources of our frustration. Rather than cross barriers themselves, they invited people of other races to make that leap—to punch their clubs, comp their publications, join their teams. Of course, none of this did anything to remedy the imbalance...
...Thou shalt not comp things aggressively, if at all. Like talking in section, this behavior makes you seem mad thirsty, but in this case, the juice is not worth the squeeze. We didn’t even comp FM and now we have a column—back of the net! Like Farrah Gray, author of the nine-step self-help book “Reallionaire,” we “took real lemons and made some real lemonade.” The precocious Gray started out selling moisturizer on the streets and was a millionaire...