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...Crimson was in red. Red was comp requirements, then associate assignments, then random brain-stormed ideas for the department. Red was for all those great inside jokes and crazy nicknames that made me happy to be part of such a close community. Red was for the reminders to go into the office on Wednesday to steal Fifteen Minutes early because I just couldn’t wait until Thursday morning to read...
...volunteers] met with clients...at another office” in Boston, Basile said. “[This] is difficult because that office is already used for other clients and it is not integrated into the Hispanic community.” Student volunteers at SCAS are put through a rigorous comp process to teach them the appropriate legal information needed to help clients. The organization also has a supervising attorney at the Law School, though students themselves handle nearly all of SCAS’s operations, Basile said. Espinosa said that El Concilio will also be aiding SCAS in community outreach...
...sickly many, of these opportunities involve a screening process, the filling out of forms, and cocktail hours. The idiotically outré final clubs are only the most obvious example. Many organizations and virtually all of our publications involve cuts and a comp. We prize meritocracy instead of democracy. We nervously judge each other. We have internalized the organization kid system...
...says. “Under the prefect system it was just showing up to study breaks”— more cookies and candy than hard-edged academic advice.The truth is that the responsibility implicitly associated with academic advising is enormous. There is no comp process that allows for slow learning through mistakes and success. The seemingly unimportant choices these freshmen make could eventually be as far reaching as determining a career on Capitol Hill or one distributing political flyers on Beacon Hill—choices that weigh heavily on the advice and support of their advisers.BIG BROTHER...
...When I’ve talked to various leaders and they try to increase Black participation in groups, there are limitations,” says Lee. “The Black community at Harvard is extremely active. It doesn’t leave as much time for me to comp the Crimson or be heavily involved in the Dems. Instead of being on The Crimson, you might write for the BSA’s literary organization and get involved in that...