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...American flag outside the Spee’s 76 Mount Auburn Street headquarters stood at half-mast last weekend, presumably mourning George W. Bush’s re-election. Yeah, totally—how could this country vote for such a cokehead? . . . In his new book I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe takes on the contemporary college culture of boozing, sex, hard drugs, and selfish hedonism at a campus that he says resembles “Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke and a few other places rolled into one.” Thanks for the shoutout...
...incident occurred on Mifflin Place, behind Mt. Auburn St. near the Harvard Square post office...
DIED. VAUGHN MEADER, 68, who satirized President John F. Kennedy in the hit 1962 album First Family; of emphysema; in Auburn, Maine. Meader was a stand-up comedian whose Kennedy satire, making fun of his "vigah" in an uncannily similar New England accent, caught on with a Kennedy-hungry public and resulted in an album that quickly sold 7.5 million copies and won a Grammy for Album of the Year. Even the President thought it was funny; he bought 100 copies for Christmas gifts. When Kennedy was assassinated the following year, however, Meader's career died with him. After struggling...
...years, 45 Mt. Auburn was home to the now-defunct Pi Eta Speakers club, whose demise came in 1991 after a string of incidents that damaged the club’s reputation. In 1986, a woman alleged she was raped by a Harvard student while at the club until a lack of evidence moved the district attorney’s office to drop the case; in 1989, Harvard University Police arrested three men for brawling in front of the club’s entrance; and in 1988, a student at Northeastern University charged she was raped at the club...
...Living Wage Campaign, the Undergraduate Council and the Philips Brooks House, was instrumental in sparking initial talks with HSF. According to Simmons, Aaron Tanaka ’04—a cofounder of HSF—approached FCL with a proposal last summer, and discussions about 45 Mt. Auburn have been going on since...