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...refuses to give free rides, and for an academic team like Mock Trial, this becomes just another road block in sustaining an active organization. In a group merely ten years old, relying on a network of alumni becomes impossible—especially considering that the organization has a history of struggling to provide the most elementary of services to its members...
...Captain William E. Cooper ’08 expressed indignation at the financial troubles that the Mock Trial Team is forced to endure. “I am very disappointed in the University—I find it a little bit outrageous that the University has this tremendous endowment and can’t manage to throw a few thousand dollars our way,” he says...
...Mock Trial Team’s financial position has been placed in an even more precarious arena by the recent collapse of an avenue of funding that had propped up the organization for the past couple of years. According to Mock Trial team member Daniel L. Goodkin ’06, whose grandfather donated over $20,000 to the organization over the period of two years, after he graduated, the monthly checks from his grandfather stopped...
...This development forced the team to pursue increasingly elaborate fundraising initiatives—from an invitational tournament called the Crimson Classic, to a series of training seminars for high school students involved in mock trial teams...
...Committee on College Life…is mainly interested in approving student groups that can be financially and programmatically sustainable from year to year,” states the Student Organizations Handbook. But when the Mock Trial Team was recognized as a Harvard student group two years ago, Roller found he encountered little resistence in his attempt to be recognized as an organization. “From the organizations that I’m involved in, it seems pretty easy to get recognized,” he says. “You just need a few faculty sponsors?...