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After heavy investigation, I came up with one lead. Many of The Crimson’s boards ask their newly elected members to accomplish optional good-natured “missions” as part of the fun of elections day, which often include scavenger hunts, love poems to editors, and song-and-dance routines. The news board, in what most would consider fairly harmless fun, asked some of their members to get Hallmark greeting cards signed by someone in the registrar’s office...
...member brought flowers and chocolates along with his card in hopes of currying favor with the office workers. He was instead approached by the manager and told that he was performing illegal solicitation. The manager then apparently filed a formal complaint with the Ad Board, alleging “disruption of the work...
Later that night, I got the news that I would be meeting with Jay Ellison, Secretary of the Ad Board, about the CVS card. I was in shock. Was I going to be suspended because The Crimson supposedly “disrupted the workday” at the registrar’s office with some flowers and chocolate...
Dean Ellison was surprisingly good-natured, despite my fears. He noted that the Ad Board was investigating the issue and had not decided whether or not to make it a formal case. He asked me some basic questions and sent me on my way. I did not know whether to be relieved or more worried...
Over the course of the next several weeks, several of my peers went through the same process, including the managing editor, the associate managing editors, who run the news board, and the leaders of the election process on the news board. The uncertainty and fear of Ad-Board retribution weighed heavy on our minds for weeks...