Word: phonathons
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...trip was funded through donations from friends, family and alumni, as well as money raised during a phonathon last year. Each player also contributed 500 dollars, except the incoming freshmen who did not attend...
Because we have a relatively small staff (30 callers plus four directors), and because of the Phonathon’s relatively informal atmosphere (each shift takes a 15-minute break for Phonathon-subsidized snacks), callers get to know each other pretty well...
While there is a fair amount of turnover from semester to semester, the core group of callers remains constant enough that an undeniable Phonathon subculture develops each year. We have our own semi-retired slogan (“Don’t call us. We’ll call you!”); we have our own incomprehensible in-jokes (two years ago it was considered uproariously funny when someone suggested making t-shirts that read, “We put the fun in Radfuncliffe”); we even have our own dialect (among other additions to the English language...
Other than our collective need for a weekly paycheck, it wouldn’t appear from the outside that there’s a lot of common ground among the Phonathon staff. In my three-years-and-counting at Radcliffe, I’ve worked with varsity football players, women’s studies concentrators, Australian marathon runners, Theta officers, Undergraduate Council representatives and aspiring eastern European bankers. Snacktime discussions can take a little while to get going at the start of the school year, but by October you can smile conspiratorially at a whole new set of people when...
...woman to sit on the University Board of Deans, when female undergrads can take for granted their ability to study in Lamont Library, and when the most unlikely of candidates—a man, for goodness sake—is allowed to become a director of the Radcliffe Student Phonathon...