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...true extent to which Harvard has changed since its founding is embodied by my term-time job as a director of the Radcliffe Annual Fund’s Student Phonathon, where I organize hiring efforts and schedule and run a couple of shifts each week...
...became clear that I’d have to get a job of some sort. When I found out how much less non-Harvard jobs in the Square pay than jobs within the university, I got in touch with the first organization I saw advertising job openings: the Radcliffe Phonathon...
...Institute mixed in for good measure. Though I was not the first guy to make fundraising calls on behalf of Radcliffe, I was part of a clear minority, and since the start of my junior year I have been the first man to serve as a director of the Phonathon (working this year, like last, with three smart, conscientious and generally delightful upperclasswomen). The ranks of male callers have filled out a bit—they now comprise exactly a third of the current staff—and there’s no reason to think that there won?...
...have I done much more than be a consistent and fairly effective fundraiser. People tend to be a little curious about my job—“Do you only call women?”—but it’s to the credit of the Phonathon and Radcliffe as a whole that I’ve always felt perfectly comfortable at work, despite my gender and Radcliffe’s own history...
...Phonathon plays a small but important role within the new Radcliffe, not only because of the nearly half-million dollars it pumps into the Institute’s general fund each year, but also as one of the only ways in which Radcliffe stays connected to undergrads (research partnerships and mentorships with Radcliffe fellows being two of the others). Situated between Harvard Yard, the river houses, and the (formerly Radcliffe) Quad, the Phonathon office—located in Radcliffe Yard—attracts approximately equal numbers of callers from each part of campus. Away from noisy dorm rooms, crowded dining...