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...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 to purchase them all with the understanding that they will be paid back...
...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...
...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?...
Coach Dave Fish ’72, also has this feeling of uncertainty as his team enters Ivy competition, likening the anticipation to that of a roller coaster ride...
...ready to go down the hill and go up the hill,” Fish said. “I don’t think there’s a coach in the league that doesn’t feel that this is just one of those roller coaster ride leagues where we have no idea what’s going to happen...