Crime Comp Opens Monday For All Upperclass Students

Light and laughter filter through the upper windows of a small brick building at 14 Plymptom St. The CRIMSON is operating.

Downstairs in the building scattered sheets of yellow copy paper cover the desks and most of the News Board floor. Not a Crimed is in sight. Voices drift down the stairway.

Upstairs, a score of reasonably neat Crimeds are cagily circulating among 25 of Radcliffe's most beautiful girls. In the middle of the floor, an especially qualified committee is cagily interviewing Miss Radcliffe candidates. Nuzzled in among the interviewers sits Miss (37-23-35) United States. Miss U.S. coos coyly, "What a wholesome bunch of young men."

Because of the discrepancy in numbers between the beautiful girls and the CRIMSON editors, the newspaper is throwing open its doors to all upperclassmen who wish to work for a position on any of its four boards. The competition starts with free beer and a chance to meet the editors at 7:30 next Monday evening.

Radcliffe Competition

To allow for the possibility that the numerical scales may shift in the other direction, a competition for Radcliffe upper-class members will start the same evening.

News board candidates will come into the building three nights a week for several weeks until they become familiar with newswriting techniques. Writing seminars with experienced editors will be held frequently. Later, as the eight-week comp progresses, fledgling reporters will be expected to turn in original stories.

Business, editorial, and photographic board competitions will be run like the news comp. Writing skill and ability to think clearly count heavily for editorial men.

All candidates, including Radcliffe girls, compete only against fixed CRIMSON standards and not against each other. As many as meet the standards will be elected; there is no limit.