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...practice of drawing from personal bank accounts is hardly unique to Freeze Magazine. The officers of the Mock Trial Team have a long tradition of paying for tournament expenses out of their own pockets and then later reimbursing themselves through fundraisers. “Normally, by spring we’ve already exhausted the funds that we’ve collected from membership dues,” Special Operations Officer Matthew S. Roller ’08 explains. “At that point in time, the easiest way to purchase plane tickets or hotel rooms is for one member...
...There is no question that this go-it-alone strategy is more effective for certain types of student groups. The Mock Trial Team is in a unique position, as it relies mainly on individual donations, often from wealthy relatives, for its $20,000 a year expenses. “Because we’re a really specialized organization, we have trouble finding grants from outside sources,” Roller explains...
...majority of the Mock Trial Team’s expenses are spent on airplane tickets and hotel rooms, which are necessary for members to attend tournaments around the country. Since the Undergraduate Council does not fund transportation expenses beyond the cost of a T-token, the Mock Trial Team can only use UC grants for the relatively negligible registration expenses that it incurs at each tournament...
...Finance Committee Chair of the Undergraduate Council and Crimson editor Alexander N. Li ’08 sympathizes with the plight of the Mock Trial Team, but insists that the UC is at the end of its tether, thus putting Mock Trial outside of the direct criteria for UC grant funding...
...student film, Calvert DeForest, reinvented as Larry (Bud) Melman, introduced the comic's first-ever late-night show on NBC in 1982. The earnest ex--file clerk went on to become Dave's fumbling, inadvertently hilarious lucky charm. Before retiring in 2003, he covered the 1994 Olympics in Norway, mock hawked products like Toast on a Stick and greeted tourists with hot towels at New York City's seedy Port Authority bus terminal...